paqman

Well, a little more googling resolved my issue. I know this doesn’t really apply to this forum, but you never know who might be having the same issue!

Anyway, it turns out that my primary key was set to TINYINT, which only allows for 127 entries. I changed the field to INT, and the problem is fixed.

Wow that was fast. Thanks, I suspected as much.

Yeah, I’ve been a customer for a few years, and they’ve always been great. It’s only been since I switched over to using wordpress stuff. I’ve got a friend who has space with BlueHost. I think I’m going to ask him if I can borrow some space to test out some wordpress sites for a bit, and see how it goes. If it works well, I may have to make the switch.

Thanks, that helps a bunch. I’ll do that.

Man, it’s driving me nuts. So you’re saying you have other friends running on globat and they’re loading fast? Or they’re not with globat? Also, you said you’re running wp 2.2, but you asked globat to update to the latest wp? What do you mean? Isn’t 2.2 the latest version? And is globat managing your blog? Just curious. I’m really getting tired of it. I love globat, and have loved them for a really long time, but with my sites all switching to wordpress now, this is becoming a really big problem.

Globat.com They’re actually really great, I’ve been with them for a number of years, and I host like 4 sites on them. But this has just gotten really frustrating. Actually, I just optimized the database, and it seemed to do the trick. Try it again:
https://www.royandstellawood.com/wordpress

Only thing is, I had my other site that takes forever and the optimizing didn’t fix it. Actually, the site comes up fine, but when you try to log in, it takes forever.

BTW, what exactly does optimizing the database do?

Yeah, I was blaming my webhost as well. They told me to optimize my database. I’m in the process of doing that right now. But can that really be the cause of an EXTREMELY slow loading page, or one that doesn’t load at all? I guess I’ll find out.

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I’m getting really frustrated. I had my hosting company refresh my database, and that seemed to help at first, but now it’s just plain annoying. I was going to say I just deactivated the plugin and have you try it again, but I can’t get to the site right now! Grrrr.

I think the same thing’s been happening to me. https://www.royandstellawood.com/wordpress. Check it out, and tell me how long it loads for you. Thanks!

Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I was thinking of just installing the new version in a completely different directory, so I wouldn’t have to worry about screwing up the other one, and I could also have both running until I’m sure the second one is running smooth. Would that be a problem? I’ll look into what you said.
Thanks.

Thanks. I’m still on WP 2.0, but I’ll look into that.

Have you received an answer to this? My daily backups also aren’t working.

Forget it, found the problem. I had previously installed a plugin, just to try it out. The plugin required I paste a bit of code in the sidebar. After deciding I didn’t like the plugin, I deactivated it, but forgot to take the bit of code out of the sidebar. Took it out, and it’s fixed. Thanks anyway.

The thing that fixed this for me was to go into the style.css and add this to #sidebar

clear: left;

Sweet thanks. Now I just hope I have the guts to upgrade. I’ve done so much tweaking/plugging/hacking, I’m almost afraid to upgrade!