Comments on: WordPress being slow, a DNS problem

By: Anders

Anders — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:29 +0000

Hey Peter,

Fantastic guide you’ve written! You’re very good at communicating this rather complicated issue (I think;)

I’s administering a small server where I also have my blog. I have the symptoms that you’re describing, however I don’t get excactly the same error that you mention:
http://munk-nielsen.dk/wp-cron.php

It says “unable to connect to munk-nielsen.dk:80″. This is strange since I’m able to access non-wordpress websites on the server from the server itself (using linux terminal http client: elinks). Therefore, it must be able to resolve its own address, but something still fails.

We recently changed the IP adress of the server and I suspect that I’ve forgotten to update something somewhere… It’s running debian sarge.

Any help would be appreciated!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:57:36 +0000

The time it takes from start to finish for WordPress to build your page, this is just running the PHP code is about 6 secs.
I think this is rather long. It could be several factors:
- The CPU of the host is overloaded.
- One of your plugins is acting up.
- You ran an awfull lot of plugins.

Shoot me an email [my name]@avirtualhome.com if you want to discuss this in more detail. Replace [my name] with peter.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:45:31 +0000

Hi,

My site loads pretty slow and I think it’s because it’s quite graphic intensive (needs to be for a fashion blog). I have checked my dns and it is not a problem with that (i tried the cron-test) so wondered if you could point me in the direction of what to change on my blog?

I have installed firebug but it hasn’t really broken down exactly what is causing the lag (around 8 seconds to load the homepage), and I do not tend to use many plugins on there. Any help would be great on the url that came with this comment.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:08:06 +0000

What is your personal blog, I can see if I can be of assistance.

By: Business Network

Business Network — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:50:32 +0000

Thank you for this post. It was helpful in determining whether it was a DNS issue of not and it is not. I just cannot figure out why my personal blog is loading so slowly.

By: Zoran

Zoran — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:10:48 +0000

Hello,
Can i take a one small pic from your blog?

Thanks
Zoran

By: Aleks

Aleks — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:16:40 +0000

Thanks For Author

By: endianx

endianx — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:24:52 +0000

Wow! You nailed it. Put an entry in my hosts file and everything is fine. Thank you so much.

By: domain

domain — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:48:57 +0000

Thanks for providing the above solution. This seem not to work for me though, eventually my wordpress stopped runing

By: Webitec

Webitec — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:41:27 +0000

Hello! Wery cool!!!