The site is too slow or get “stopped”

Check your hosting server, It might be due to slow hosting. Otherwise if you have installed too many plugins, that may be the cause.

@whooami —

You are as free as anyone else to continue running whatever obsolete and exploitable version of WP you want.

I said nothing about upgrading WordPress, I was talking about upgrading hosting in response to the person above me.

WordPress has always presented themselves as the program for the n00b or for the common guy. So WHY is it suddenly so server heavy? And I’m concerned about 2.7, is it only going to get worse?

That is not a rant. Those are valid points/questions. If YOU don’t like it YOU don’t have to respond, certainly not to respond that you’re ignoring me.

WP runs just fine on thousands of sites, with thousands of posts, and Gb’s of traffic. It’s impossible for ANY developer to write code that is going to perform the same way across every single server set up on every single site on the web.

Hmmm. Okay then. Because you say so, it *must* be true.
My sites are currently on a server to themselves and still having issues. You cannot logically say that because WP runs fine on thousands of other sites that there MUST not be a problem anywhere with the program. I’m not an idiot, I know nothing will work everywhere in every possible scenario. But not only do I fit the installation requirements, I have done everything though from optimizing my installations to the databases to installing cache plugins to removing useless plugins to upgrading PHP and MySQL and installing accelerators, etc, etc, ETC. Everything.

There’s the door …

Gee, thanks. Not that I needed you to show me the door. I’m already looking for proper alternatives. A pity, really, I’ve been a WordPress fan girl since the absolute beginning. I have the shirts to prove it. Again, you don’t like that I’m getting frustrated with this after having been dealing with it since 2.6 came out, then don’t reply. Simple solution.

K. Thx.

@tcindie — I’m currently running eAccelerator 0.9.5.3. I’ll look into those others, thanks.

@zouk — I’m afraid that neither of those are the issues for me, thanks though!

(For what it’s worth, I believe I made this statement in another post regarding this, my issue isn’t so much it being slow or stopping but in using too many resources.)

Here’s something interesting that may be related. I have 5 new WordPress sites up at GoDaddy. I’ve used GoDaddy for 2 years, no problems. These 5 sites are all hosted at different server IPs. They are also built in subdirectories of some of my other hosting on the main sites.

I built all 5 the same: Same WordPress 2.6.0 files, same theme, same plugin loads. I plan to customize later. First, though, I’m troubleshooting a problem: One of the sites runs quite differently from the other four! Symptoms of the “bad” site:

Loads much slower
Admin can’t change page authors
All user profiles; when loaded, the first password line is filled w/ a password

There may be other differences as well, but these three are driving me crazy! I even tried disabling all plugins, the three symptoms are still there.

I’m thinking, if I can find whatever is causing the two symptoms I can see when managing the site in Dashboard, then I’ll likely solve the speed problem for that site as well. It doesn’t load so slow it chokes; but clearly 4-6x slower than any of the other four (identical) sites…

Any ideas on this? Maybe if we can find what’s up here, we can get insights into everybody’s slow site problems…