Are you using shared hosting?
Shared hosting is the cheap and cheerful hosting solution. This means you’re sharing a server with hundreds of other websites. If any of these sites have a big spike in traffic, or if their activity results in getting your IP address blacklisted, your site is directly affected.
As you’re sharing resources with many other websites, the performance of your site is very limited and page load speeds will be less than impressive.
Speed and performance is a big SEO ranking factor, so this is now an important consideration when choosing hosting for your website.
Our approach is to host with managed dedicated and VPC servers, so we have full control over our resources, we know exactly how our servers are being used, and what sites we’re hosting together. The result of this is very fast page load speeds, and a super secure hosting environment.