Which host do you use currently ? And which CDN ?
I don't think it'll cost much for a server for daily traffic of 100-200 visitors, given it's the only site with such traffic on that server.
I just had a look on your website. Initially, it felt quite slow. I had to refresh 3 times to load all the images. After that it was fine though.
See this:
*i.imgur.com/3owIhks.png
Lots of 502, that means indeed your server is giving you problems which is further increasing the loading time.
Also, there a lot of things which you can do to speed up your current scenario.
> Your http requests can be highly reduced. 100 is quite on the higher side.
> Since your home page consists of largely images, compress them to the max. Home page size of 2.42 mb in Indian net scenario can push the loading quite slow.
Also, a design suggestion, all the thumbnails under your latest posts, why not give them a title overlay preferably in the lower area of every image ? It will be immensely useful. All these images are pointing to different locations, and currently I have to hover each image to just know which place they are pointing to. I hope I'm able to explain myself.
One more issue:
See the share bar on the left side.
Haha!! You nailed it..!! Infact the surprising thing is, I'm aware of these things as I use those tools regularly to check the performance... But...
1. The main thing is I'm not finding spare time to fix that sidebar plugin. It was working fine, but suddenly it broke, I don't know why.
2. I don't know why those images throws 502 from CDN, as other images loads fine from CDN, only those images are not working. And I don't even know what's not actually working. As from front end things looks fine. Again I don't have time right now to check those images one by one.
3. Yes, even I'm thinking of getting a good theme, as no one would hover over the images and see which destination it's about.
4. Regarding the image size, the issue is, I need some spare time (a lot) to download those images from my server one by one and compress them. Because whatever I upload nowadays is not over few KB's but when I actually started it I uploaded the images directly from my Camera / DSLR which is around 5-10MB each. So for the time being I have the load time under control with the workaround by using WP-Smush! plugin. But this workaround cannot be there for too long. Again I need time to download them one by one and compress it in Irfanview or something,
Any tips (including and excluding the above point) would be really helpful. Currently I'm also facing huge issues because previously I installed a theme with some default posts and images and all. Now that I decided to make it a travelogue first of all the domain name is not going with the current genre of my blog but most importantly, I get lots of 404's in Google Webmaster because those posts are still there in DB even though I have deleted from WP.
So they don't shows up there in WP, but upon logging in to phpMyAdmin and querying the tables I see those categories and posts there. Now on GWT, I get 404 on those categories as they don't exist.
I don't know what should I do. Only way that comes to my mind is, get a hosting in Hostgator (As my current host Hostdime stopped selling Shared Server, but old customers are not hampered in any way) and setup a wordpress over there with a new theme and move the posts and contents one by one and then move the domain name once it's ready.
As otherwise my SEO would be hampered. THough it's not huge, but I do get around 200 visitors daily and for a nothing expecting person like me, it's huge for me. THough I do not have any income from this (neither do I plan to have), I'm happy that people are reading my posts and asking for suggestions on their travel related queries.