Recently one of my WP blogs became super slow. The host, Godaddy swears there is nothing wrong with their hosting and DB servers. Is there anyway or a plugin to optimize the WP script? I haven't used many hacks on this blog so consider it pretty much an out of the box install. thx
how about you try to run it on another server from another host for a day or so, to check if it works there or not!
Using wp-cache helps alot, it comes standard with the newer versions of WP (you have to create the directory in your wp-content file, an 777 it). eAccellerator also helps alot with the php processing. Query caching of the db helps alot too, if you've got mysql 4.1+ you can activate and tweak it. I've gotten as much as 100k pageviews in a day (wp blogs only, I've got 30 other sites hosted on the same server too) and my server help up fine using these.
I'm also keen on making WP blogs particularly impervious to the Digg effect... anyone know of any particular mods that streamline WP a great deal more than it comes out of the box?
I'm using WP 2.03 but am unaware of the "wp-cache" functions. I found the wp-cache plugin site, but do I understand this plugin isn't needed with more recent wp versions? Anyone have reference to how this feature is administered? I'm not finding much. As to the original post, one thing I do each week or so is log into the mySql controls and optimize the wp tables. Seems to help some especially with my larger blogs that seem to develop "overhead" (whatever that means).