Comments on: WordPress/MySQL performance issues?

By: brett

brett — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:04 +0000

Enjoyed everyones thoughts on this issue – I thought I’d way in. I was experiencing the exact same things…. I’ve tried everything to fix it – and you know what did it?

Switching hosting providers.

After working hard to get GoDaddy’s customer service to help (to no avail) I just gave up on them.

GoDaddy has terrible shared server environments – and is awful for hosting wordpress. I highly recommend switching over to a better hosting system – I’m using Mosso, and my blog (same blog that godaddy blamed as the problem) now loads in no time flat.

Way faster than the 30 seconds it was taking on GoDaddy!

By: GeradT

GeradT — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:43:46 +0000

I would highly recommend that you move away from GoDaddy hosting. They are really not good for that. Don’t get me wrong, I have all of my domains through them, I just dont use them for hosting any of them. The quality of hosting just isnt there. I would highly recommend host gator or pretty much any other major hosting company (except 1and1, they stink too). Hope this helps!

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Chris, I’m looking at the page generation metric that WordPress burns into the tail end of every page it spits out (it’s commented out, near the bottom of the source for a page) and that only includes the PHP and MySQL generation time for the page itself. External stuff loads roughly in parallel.

Alan, from what I understand, the built-in caching is somewhat different than WP-Cache did. WP2 apparently caches portions of pages (database queries etc.) while WP-Cache stored the entire generated page as a flat file, and returned that directly (and VERY quickly).

It’s entirely possible that I’m seeing a cretin attack, but there aren’t any noticeable spikes in the logs provided by GoDaddy (well, not in the Analog output that I get to see, anyway).

I had gone in and verified/repaired/optimized all tables in the database, with no luck.

It’s a stumper, unless the GoDaddy server is acting up…

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I thought WP2 had some caching built in the negated the need for the WP-cache plugin. (I had problems with that plugin nuking the popularity contest plugin.)

Have you gone in with something like PHPMyAdmin and optimized some of the tables? The comments, and the SK2 tables end up building alot of overhead. I am not sure how much that factors into performance, but I like to flatten them out every two weeks or so.

I did not see any significant speed up or slow down in going from WP 1.5 to 2.0.

Any chance of getting hit hard by any cretins?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I wonder about the content coming from off-site, like the flickr block and sitemeter data. Often these can slow down a pageload if they’re experiencing downtime. I have the same setup as you, running on a repurposed dell in my lab, but then again I don’t have nearly the traffic that you do… just some thoughts.

By: John Pederson

John Pederson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’m running WP2, K2, and just about the exact setup you are…plenty of plugins…no problems. I’m not an expert by any means, but I think you are dealing with server load issues.

By: Sami Khan

Sami Khan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

If you act now I’ll throw in an extra pair for free… and not only that you get a free control panel! Your site is acting slowly from where I am as well.

By: Sami Khan

Sami Khan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Let me know if you want to move off, I have a server in Texas with relatively low usage that you can have an account on, pro-bono .

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the offer, Sami. I just might take you up on that, depending on how this plays out.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hopefully the offer comes with the Ginsu knives