Francesco Petracca wrote:
I've implemented the file caching for now. Being that I have a lot more browsing visitors than editors, I think that should make a noticeable difference. I'm going to keep an eye on the situation and see if that makes a dent. If not I'll have to look into the other solutions and see which I could carry out in the shared host environment. Shell access is available but costs a little extra, and the list of functions disabled are located here http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Disabled_JailShell_Commands
The only command you may miss from that list is 'make', in case you need to compile something. In that case you may have more luck compiling on a system similar enough and copying the binary. And if you're going to be copying binaries, you may not need shell.