wunderdojo

Knock on wood, the site I switched — it’s still under construction so it wasn’t an issue to mess with it — it immediately stopped the hangups. I couldn’t work on it five minutes ago, now it’s blazing. Could be that the latest update to WordPress just needed permalinks refreshed — as in, now I could switch back to Post and it will be fine. Just needed something to trigger a rewrite of them.

Actually, I may have just figured it out. I tried changing the permalinks from Post Name (which I have on pretty much all the sites) to Numeric and it seems to be flying again. I’ll let you know if this proves to be anything.

I’ve been having the exact same issue for a few weeks now with a Hostgator reseller server. I have several sites running WP v3.3.1 and they have become unusable. I might get 5-7 page loads normally but then it will hang for up to a minute or so doing something routine like updating a post. I’ve been on with support about 8 times so far with no help from them. I have tried no plugins, etc. and no luck. The only change I can identify is the upgrade to the latest version of WordPress — some sites I’m running have been unchanged other than that in over 2 years and have never had issues.
I have tried various browsers, it doesn’t solve anything. Might seem to for a few minutes but then the hangups start in the new browser. Seems like some kind of a memory leak issue from the symptoms but I can’t identify anything unusual there.
If anyone else has found anything that helps alleviate this please post.