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1. mthompson007
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thanks in advance for the assistance.

   I'm working with a company that is hosted with GearHost - very happy. We need to move the WP site from one product to another which moves it from a Windows 2003 Server R2 to a Windows 2008 with IIS 7.5. The folks at GearHost copied the site to the new server, but whenever I point my DNS (godaddy) to make the site live it gets really, really slow. It takes 10+ seconds to load. I tested extensively last night, clicking around the site to try to isolate the issue. Then, this morning, when folks started hitting the site, it crashed due to "too many connections" to the mysql database. Can anyone help? I am going to try again tonight during a maintenance window to turn off permalinks to see if that's the issue...I'm stumped and have been looking at it with Page Speed (google Chrome), but I can't figure it out. I've checked the site url, and home settings. It seems to be something specific between WordPress and IIS 7.5? Is there maybe something that WP does automatically during installation that my setup is missing because it was copied from the 2003 Server.

   Again, assistance is MUCH appreciated.

2. money-maker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   At least try turning off plugins first so you can figure out if its core or plugin related.

3. mthompson007
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I just wanted to circle back up on this issue. Ultimately, it turned out to be a database error with my host. They actually fixed it lightening fast, but it took me a while to look into my own config to ensure it wasn't my issue. Here are some links that have been helpful while moving our site:

   Moving your site from local server to live (same principles apply if just moving to a new host)
   http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/moving-a-wordpress-installation-from-local-server-to-a-live-site/

   Easily Search and Replace connection strings for images, pdfs, etc.
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/

   Broken link checker:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

   Forward URL to another site / 301 redirect tool:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

   Quickly disable active plugins from phpmyadmin - when you get a maintenance error:
   http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/02/18/quickly-disable-or-enable-all-wordpress-plugins-via-the-database/

   WordPress performance:
   http://elliottback.com/wp/why-my-wordpress-site-is-so-much-faster-than-yours/

   Also, only download plugins from wordpress.org because there seems to me a lot of junk out there.

   I hope this helps the next person with a similar issue.

   Mike

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