Hi there. I've just created and hosted my first ASP site. When I run it on my home local box, running Windows XP pro, it runs fine. It's fast, with no problems.
When I host it with my host provider, the pages seem very slow - about 30 seconds or more to load. I'm not getting any traffic right now because I haven't submitted to search engines. The pages seem a little faster after I visit them a couple of times.

My pages:
- ASP classic
- running a directory script (I purchased, not developed)
- running a banner ad script (I purchased, not developed)
- Access database
- pages are small files, not much images, etc.

My Host:
- shared environment host

My questions are:
- is there anything I can do to help speed up the site (i.e., look at the code and fix something).
- is there a way I can test to see if the host is actually the problem?
- is there a way in the future to find a good host that might not have problems like this?