More than 280 pages website instantly is slow

  • Web Server

    1. Apache
    2. RedHat Ent. 5.4, PHP Version 5.2.17
    3. Dual Core 3GHz Xeon
    4. 4GB RAM

    MySQL DB server (version 5.0.77)

    1. Quad core 2.8GHz
    2. 8GB RAM

    I’m running multiple (not mutli-site) instances of WP and all but one are working perfectly fine. The site in question used to have 277 pages and it was fine. And by fine I mean load times were .2 sec with no caching.

    I recently added some pages, 51 to be exact, and now all pages take 4+ seconds to load. Again it is just this instance of WP that is experiencing this slowdown, all others are still .2 sec load times w/o caching. If I delete pages so that the site is below 300 pages, the site loads perfectly fine (.2 sec load time w/o caching) and all is right with the world.

    I’ve been looking and looking and can’t find anyone with the same issue that has been resolved. (I could be blind though…)

    Steps I’ve already taken to resolve issue.

    1. Installed Plug-in: WP-Supercache
    2. Installed e-Acccelorator on Apache

    I don’t know what to do, any help would be appreciated.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Pages, not posts?

    Yeah, it scales badly. https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

    Pages
    But what if you have a lot of Pages? I once read a post by a person who had over 50,000 Pages on his site. That is a special case obviously, but consider our lookup system. We’re going through these rules one at a time. With our first method, our rule list was only 10 rules, maximum. With this new method, you add a rule for every single Page you make. Going through 50,000 rules takes a lot longer than going through 10. And even just building that list of rules can take a long time.

    Basically you’ve created a performance issue. Your Pages now won’t scale to unlimited numbers. Your site’s speed is linearly dependent on the number of Pages you have.

    This is a bad thing.

    Thread Starter booshsqaw

    (@booshsqaw)

    That fixed it immediately! Thank you VEEEEERRRRRYYYY much!

    Thread Starter booshsqaw

    (@booshsqaw)

    All pages are now loading in ~ .3 seconds!

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