WordPress backend Dashboard extremely slow on a specific network

Sounds like your connectivity provider at work needs a phone call.

Where is your web server located btw?

I was wondering if maybe the server was inside the theatre office and that’s where you are working, too. I was kinda wondering about something like the connection having to leave the building to reach the server in the same building or something odd like that.

I do think it’s a connectivity issue and nothing WordPress has caused.

I’ll throw one more oddball idea out there for you. Maybe do the little bit of work to get onto CloudFlare if they offer it there where you are (One of these days I’m gonna get me a map showing CloudFlare’s edge locations Worldwide).

CloudFlare would help with your DNS problem where it looks like your DNS server is on the same subnet if not the same box. I doubt that is causing this issue though as the resolver locally should cache the results anyway once a connection happens.

But, I’m wondering about the connection ‘client to server’ and wondering if that is a part of the problem.

Using the CloudFlare would provide much of the traffic via their Proxy hits so if there’s a local confusion thing happening that would go away just like it would do while using the cell phone 4G or your home connection.

It just occurred to me that you have a ‘must work at home’ opportunity here. <GRIN>

One caveat pertaining to the Free CloudFlare… your server needs to respond fairly fast or you’ll get 500 errors from CloudFlare but those will show your server(s) as being slow. In that case, you’d just turn off the proxy side of CloudFlare but take the DNS. I don’t know of anyone offering a better DNS than theirs.