localhost: instant
mediatemple last week: about 10 seconds (it felt like)
mediatemple this week (after cleaning old plugins, cleaning database, etc): about 2 seconds (it feels like)
There’s more and more hosts catering to wordpress sites, and using SSD’s for database and servers. If you’re serious about your wordpress site I would recommend (1) making sure wordpress is clean, (plugins, themes, database size, etc) (2) if still slow find a better hosting provider!
& always factor in: your current internet speed speedtest.net, the distance you are from your hosts server farm, etc
May I ask how exactly you got the panel to be so quick? 🙂
Oh and theres nothing wrong at my end, currently have 80 mb down and 40 up, nothing to do with the computer, its like this everywhere
I can’t say for certain what did ‘the trick’ to restore the expected speed but this is what I did:
- re-installed wordpress (re-uploaded / replaced everything except
/wp-content/)
- deleted unused plugins
- deleted unused themes including all of wordpress’s twentyx themes
- deleted revisions
- deleted unused users
- remove widgets from dashboard
- replaced plugins with better ones (replacing “Contact Form 7” with “Gravity Forms”, replaced “Facebook Sidebar Widget” with “Facebook” etc)
- deleted all spam comments
- increased php security, and took a second look at hardening wordpress
- manually searched the database and ftp dir’s for anything that looked too large or out of place, etc.
- reviewed access logs to see who’s doing what
- reviewed analytics to get a gauge on traffic and load times (multi-site)
all and all it took about 10 hours, but I noticed a huge speed bump. All of the above would fall under “good maintenance” and I’ve now incorporated most of that into my weekly routine.
important note: i also backed up everything before i started, files and database, incase I messed up.
also I searched “Server Speed Test” and there are some tools out there that you may want to consider testing your host.
I might just do that, anyway I can save all my theme settings and stuff, do I just save the theme file on my filemanager? I am currently on iPage, In about 30 days or so will be changing to GoDaddy, or HostGator. (Most likely GoDaddy, because their support is better for uk residents )
I might just do that, anyway can I save all my theme settings and stuff? do I just save the theme file on my filemanager? I am currently on iPage, In about 30 days or so will be changing to GoDaddy, or HostGator. (Most likely GoDaddy, because their support is better for uk residents )
