Wordpress is pretty slow for a number of reasons, but some easy things you can do to speed it up is to install a php op-code cache, and a word press cache plugin. I would recommend xcache http://xcache.lighttpd.net/ for the op code cache, and probably WP-Cache for the word press cache plugin.
Other suggestions would be to use nginx for the webserver, cache the sql queries, or move to a faster blogging platform :) Adam On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Robert Merrill <robertmerr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Pluggers, > > I've been hosting my own WordPress sites for seven years or so now, and > the reality is that my sites are just running too slow. I'm using a virtual > shared server on media Temple. Admittedly I'm paying $20 a month, so I > don't expect best in class performance, but I have to do something > different. > > I can move my sites to WordPress.com and for the same price per month, get > much better performance, it appears… However, with much less flexibility > and I can't customize anything other than stylesheets. > > Before making the leap, I wonder if there something smarter I should do? > Is there a better shared server setup that you can think of? Is there > something more advanced in the area of $60 or $80 a month? Or am I looking > at $300 or $500 a month for something beefy enough to give me reasonable > performance? > > I'm already using some (I think) good caching, as well as a fairly > extensive edge CDN media/static file distribution set up leveraging AWS. > > I'm not opposed to a little learning curve and elbow grease. I'm not a > hacker, but I'm more advanced than your average Joe. I know PHP, minimal > perl and py, JavaScript, databases, the basic web technologies, I can SFTP > and chmod files, mess w DNS zone files, and have minimal but passing > capability with .htaccess and the like... but admittedly until a few years > ago I thought "Sudo" was a line from a Phil Collins song. > > Thoughts? Lost cause? Bite the bullet? > > -- > Robert Merrill > http://connectedwell.com > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
