What would cause a wordpress installed blog to run slow..

12 years ago

There can be many reasons. If you're on a server shared with many other users, then when many of you are on the server, it gets slow. The other possibility is your connection. If too many people in your neighborhood are all using the Internet at the same time, it can slow down your transfer speed between your computer and your server. It's difficult to tell without being able to check your transfer speeds and without access to the server. If you have a dedicated server, maybe something else is running on it?

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essex14 12 years ago

Im with a really cheap hosting company and am pretty sure its on their end. I have a good connection with my internet so.. idk..
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- Kingfish85 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by essex14
  
  Im with a really cheap hosting company and am pretty sure its on their end. I have a good connection with my internet so.. idk..
  
  Most likely that's your problem. Overloaded poor performing servers will cause that. Remember, when it comes to hosting, you get what you pay for.
  
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  Social App Zone 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kingfish85
  
  Most likely that's your problem. Overloaded poor performing servers will cause that. Remember, when it comes to hosting, you get what you pay for.
  
  So true, trying to monetize with a crappy server is like entering a Formula One Race on a Donkey.
  
  Lack of sales/income/traffic can be directly related to server overload.
  
  For now I would contact the Engineers, they should be able to help you. Moving forward, get a cloud/dedicated package that you can configure as your traffic grows. Wordpress is a PHP/MYSQL implementation, if you have a good control panel and root access to your server, your problem in a good environment would be easy to resolve
  
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- Kingfish85 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by essex14
  
  Im with a really cheap hosting company and am pretty sure its on their end. I have a good connection with my internet so.. idk..
  
  Who are you currently hosting with?
  
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NACAdam

12 years ago

you can go with hostgator or maybe its because your grandma runs the show

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Sitestomp

12 years ago

Is it on shared hosting? If yes, that's probably it.

Also, is your wordpress updated to the latest version?

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Alexis Wilke 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Sitestomp

Is it on shared hosting? If yes, that's probably it.

This is what he said in his answer...

Note that a VPS is also a shared solution (hence the cheap price) however it is likely to generally be faster.

I had the chance to test a website running on GoDaddy. Generally it was okay, but at time it would just be dog slow.

Originally Posted by Sitestomp

Also, is your wordpress updated to the latest version?

This is also a good suggestion in case some hacker penetrated the site and started using it for his own profits.
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stephenwaldo

12 years ago

I would definitely look to your hosting first and foremost...If you're on shared hosting then there's only so much control you're ever going to have over the speed of your site. Perhaps it's time for an upgrade?

I don't know how many plugins you're running, but you could also try cutting a few of those. I've seen some surprising changes in site-speed myself by deleting some plugins, usually the socially oriented ones because they load additional scripts.

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paul_1

12 years ago

If you're not yet ready for a higher hosting plan, you can use a wp plugin called "wp speed cache"...

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BlueLayerHost 12 years ago

Also run Yslow and Page Speed on your site and see if you have any glaring issues.
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shermancox

12 years ago

Three places to look...Your Hosting and Your Plugins and Cacheing.......

Cut down on your plugins. In fact cut them all the way out and see if it is still slow. If not, then slowly add the plugins back. Some plugins slow your site down...

Use a caching plugin. Yep...use a caching plugin to speed up your performance. If you don't have a caching plugin running, then this is what you need to do first...

Cheap overloaded shared hosting can be your problem. You could be running nicely until someone with a big site gets put on your server...slows you down. Sometimes you can just be slow during certain times of day...Might be an influx of users, might be your host company running that backup during the middle of the day, might be something else. At any rate...you might look into other hosting if that is your problem...

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appliedvisual

12 years ago

It's probably the hosting. Look for a better, VPS solution and host there. If you don't have the budget for a new host, try cleaning your database, uninstalling some of the plugins, or consider using a CDN.

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Kingfish85

12 years ago

Caching plugin

less plugins if you're using many

look into CloudFlare

optimize your images

reduce the amount of javascripts

I'm not sure why a VPS keeps getting mentioned, unless your site is using a lot of resources, you do not need a VPS. As long as you're hosting environment isn't overloaded, shared hosting is fine.

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Alexis Wilke

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kingfish85

I'm not sure why a VPS keeps getting mentioned, unless your site is using a lot of resources, you do not need a VPS. As long as you're hosting environment isn't overloaded, shared hosting is fine.

I don't disagree. Although today you have VPS solutions for $20/mo. or so... I find that quite affordable for what you get!

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damoncloudflare

12 years ago

Originally Posted by essex14

So lately I have noticed that when I mess with the post it takes 30-40 seconds to update with or without all of the plugins installed. It seems slow sometimes as well.

Can anyone relate to this..?

All of the recommendations from people are great. If you're getting a fair amount of traffic on shared hosting, then you're probably going to start having issues with performance and loading.

I would probably would also probably recommend running some quick tests on the site to see if there are any other bottlenecks. You could use something like webpagetest.org or pingdom.com to see if certain files are causing issues on the site. You also check to see which plugins on WordPress might be causing performance issues as well.

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damoncloudflare

12 years ago

Originally Posted by essex14

So lately I have noticed that when I mess with the post it takes 30-40 seconds to update with or without all of the plugins installed. It seems slow sometimes as well.

Can anyone relate to this..?

All of the recommendations from people are great. If you're getting a fair amount of traffic on shared hosting, then you're probably going to start having issues with performance and loading.

I would probably would also probably recommend running some quick tests on the site to see if there are any other bottlenecks. You could use something like webpagetest.org or pingdom.com to see if certain files are causing issues on the site. You also check to see which plugins on WordPress might be causing performance issues as well.

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