Comments on: SLOW! SLOW! SLOW!

By: Zyl

Zyl — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:37 +0000

Midphase/ANHosting has been ok but not problem free. Not the cheapest either. Do shop around.

By: Adun

Adun — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:41:43 +0000

double: You have to physically delete those records from the wp-options table. Most of the records you’ll be looking for is where option_name starts with rss_. Just run this SQL statement against your database to see if it’s retrieving a lot of records:

select count(*) from wp_options
where option_name like ‘rss_%’
and autoload = ‘yes’

You can also switch to ‘no’ for autoload and see how many records are in there. Though be careful in deleting records from your database and always create a backup first.

By: double

double — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:56:59 +0000

I’ve just optimized the SQL database, so I presume loading speeds will improve. That is, unless Dreamhost screws up again.

By: Hynavian

Hynavian — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:49:56 +0000

Though the site is up, the loading speed is crawling slow. I wasn’t able to load to the site for the past few days and it’s loading real slowly when I’m able to connect to the site today.

By: double

double — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:29:53 +0000

How’s the web host that you’re using? Any good?

By: Zyl

Zyl — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:20:48 +0000

I gave up on Dreamhost sometime back. Googling ‘hostname sucks’ when considering an alternative may be helpful in reducing the chance of getting an equally crappy alternative.

In the meantime, you could also get rid of overheads in your tables by optimizing them under myPHPadmin? The WP Super Cache plugin may also help to reduce server load.

By: double

double — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:55:32 +0000

Icystorm > I’ll be looking around for more options to consider. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Caitlin > Yea the connection speeds suck >_>

Adun > How do you clean out the table?

By: Adun

Adun — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:37:08 +0000

I had this problem with Dreamhost before but they have managed to fix the problem. At times I noticed that my Dashboard loaded slowly and people were getting timeouts on my blog as well, and I found the reason for this. If you have access to your MySQL database, check how many records are in the wp_options table. If you have something like 7000 records like I did, then that’s your problem.

The reason behind that is that WP stores a cached version of the RSS in the wp_options table. Everytime you run a query on that table, it’s trying to retrieve something like 3000 of the 7000 records. Simply clean out that table and you’ll notice the difference.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:59:52 +0000

I’ve noticed that things are slow too. I’ve heard bad things about Dreamhost, particularly with connection speeds, so even with 6 months left, I’d still leave.

By: IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:39:35 +0000

YEAH, LEAVE DREAMHOST.

Go to Fused Network Link at the bottom of my blog. Awesome uptime, awesome customer support, awesome everything. You definitely won’t get the bandwidth and space and crap that hosts like Dreamhost and Host5 provide, but they’re a heck of a lot more reliable. Media Temple isn’t recommended either, according to Maestro.

Go with a smaller host even if it doesn’t offer as much, but make sure you read reviews on whoever you choose.