Slow wordpress with consistant database overheads

  • I moved my website to a new webhost and it has become very slow. I have tried installing the SuperCache plugin and Database Optimiser but now none of them seem to help. Its news website which I update with at least 10 articles a day some of them with images. When I check the Wp Data Optimiser daily it has a lot of orverheads sometimes upto 2mb.

    The website is very slow to access the homepage and categories but quite quick moving from post to post. I have tried re-installing WordPress but this has not helped. Sometimes in the backend/dashboard the categories section does not load up so I have to refresh the page and at other times I struggle to post images as I am constantly greeted by 500 error codes or it takes forever from the time you click add image to the time the load image box shows up 5-10minutes at times or to move to find image in library. I have over 2000 posts in the database and I hope to double that in 3 months.

    The website is Shout-Africa.com .

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  • Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    Unfortunately you have a variety of problems.

    Several minutes response time might mean you picked a VERY slow host; these things takes a sec or 3.

    Temp disable all plugins to see if they are interfering.

    ALTERNATIVE

    Install a fresh WP in a folder at host; if that is slow ; the host is slow; a fresh WP is fast.

    Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    >>>I have over 2000 posts in the database and I hope to double that in 3 months.

    You will probably see NO speed difference even with 10 000 posts at a decent website host.

    Thread Starter misheck

    (@misheck)

    I have tested another WP on the same host and its faster than the website in question.

    What I dont understand is that there is great speed difference between moving from tags to tag or category to category than there is from post to post?

    Also some of the menus do not load up at times like the category menu. I will try disable the plugins.

    Is there any issues with using custom fields because that what I use for the homepage to display the images?

    Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    >>I have tested another WP on the same host and its faster than the website in question.

    >>I will try disable the plugins.

    Agree; host seems fine; I suggest one/more plugins make it slow

    might explain:

    What I dont understand is that there is great speed difference between moving from tags to tag or category to category than there is from post to post?

    Alwyn Botha

    (@123milliseconds)

    from `https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/65-advanced-uses-for-custom-fields-in-wordpress/’

    Hey Chris, I am currently working on an ecommerce site where I was planning on using the custom fields to pull the information just as you are showing. I had to re-consider this because someone I am working with told me that using the custom fields could slow the page and even crash it because it makes so many sql server calls. Your site seems to be working just fine. Do you see this as a valid concern?

    Thanks!

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    Chris Coyier says:
    08/12/2009 at 3:43 pm

    I think that sounds insane to me.

    There MIGHT be a little extra database action involved but I’m sure it’s very fast and not noticeable.

    Do they have any information to back it up?

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