site slows to a crawl

  • katandmouse

    (@katandmouse)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    site was great in development; pushed it live and now it periodically slows to a crawl. We’ve optimized the site and the database. We also added security plugins which indicated there were a lot of hits from China and Russia so we blocked those countries entirely. It sped up and seemed to be fine for days, but the crawl is back again. The site is vanilla.com which might be a target for spammers and hackers. Assuming I can’t make them all go away and that they are the problem (that is just a guess), what is the best thing to do? THe site was fine when it was in Joomla. Is WP more of a target? I can’t go back now. Do we move to a faster server with more resources? What? We need help. Is there a specialist out there who knows what is going on?

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  • Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    You’re on a shared host and it looks like hostgator; talk to the hosting company. Your server is probably getting hammered by other sites on the same box. See Recommended WordPress Web Hosting

    Besides that, raise your memory allocation for the current error message. Using FTP you can try increasing the memory for PHP and WordPress by adding the “define” line below in your wp-config.php file a few lines of white space below the opening <?php

    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

    Thread Starter katandmouse

    (@katandmouse)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Moved it to Rackspace cloud site. Paying an arm and a leg. Speed better but still getting the slow downs. Pages loaded in under 2 seconds after I pushed DNS transfer and it propagated for me. But as the day went on and propagation continued, it got slower. I think because it’s in WP, she’s more vulnerable to attack and having a one-word, old url like vanilla.com doesn’t help.

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Its not necessarily more vulnerable, but many people think WP is a good target, so they try.

    Cloud hosting can be slower than a shared host, becuase you’re still sharing the box with others.

    Use http://gtmetrix.com/reports/vanilla.com/Ah6h6YnO and set up Super Cache the right way. Use http://perishablepress.com/5g-blacklist-2012/ to block bots, leachers, etc.

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