I have a very general query hope someone can help me with. I have built image upload functionality into a website i run in the form of an image upload html form. I use PHP Image GD or whatever its called and add the images to an image folder while storing the relevant detail on a mysql database. I have also added a 1Mb file limit on any uploads. On my own windows laptop this image upload process takes a few seconds however on my actual live website it can take anything up to 10 seconds. I've added a javascript "image loading" image just to keep my users sane. before i contact my hosting company any ideas what specifcally would make this slow. is it a bandwidth issue, webspace issue, RAm issue? Any help much appreciated.