Slow blog — better hosting? or better optimized?

  • I have a blog hosted on Dreamhost. It serves about 9000 pages a day. I have wp-supercache turned on, but the wp-admin was running slow and would sometimes crap out. DH suggested I upgrade to Dreamhost PS as I needed more RAM than I was getting.

    DH missed some settings in the switch. It happens. But the blog has never worked very well since. Even stranger, in some broswers the site is frozen to a version from last year. Even on my own computer, one browser will show one version, another browser another version. I’ve cleared all my browser caches, turned off wp-supercache, I’ve never seen anything like it. Neither has DH, they seem to be at a loss as well.

    On top of all this, I am now paying extra for the service! I’ve cranked the RAM up to 381 MB which is costing $38.10/month on top of my usual hosting charges.

    I don’t mind paying. The site generates revenue. But I would hope for that price I would get a zippy site, at least.

    I don’t have the MySQL optimization plugin installed, and I will try that next. But I’m wondering if I should have used Movable Type when I had the chance. WP is great for easy set up and to get rolling, but once your site gets to a certain size and garners a certain level of traffic, I wonder how much optimization can save it? Even if the front end holds, who wants to spend hours in wp-admin hoping the db doesn’t cack when you add a link?

    Sorry, long note. But can anyone suggest a good mid-level host, better than Dreamhost? Or should I be concentrating on optimizing my installation so it will work faster?

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  • Bonusball please post a link to your site so that I can investigate.

    My WordPress site loads in 0.6 seconds.

    I like to know exactly what caused MY slow loads so investigated all aspects of page load time to get it so fast.

    You seem to have multiple strange issues.

    Tasty, interesting stuff to investigate … my mouth waters

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    Just an update:

    The problem was wp-supercache. It doesn’t work well on Dreamhost PS. It was cacheing an older version of the site. I uninstalled it, and am now using Hypercache.

    However, after some investigation, if I had it to do all over again, Media Temple would be a much better choice.

    Thread Starter bonusball

    (@bonusball)

    An update to my update:

    I was a little hard on Dreamhost. My problems were due to my own inexperience and bad plugins.

    After some research, optimization, and help from DH support, the site works great.

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