Okay, so if you’ve tried to visit my site in the last year, you’ll have noticed that it was so frickin’ slow. Like really, it would take 12-seconds to load the front page, which is an eternity in Internet time. (I was feeling like Comcast had already won and the Internet was being choked to heel like a recalcitrant dinosaur.) It’s been incredibly frustrating.
To try to alleviate the problem, I’ve added a VPS. I have no idea what it is or how it works (of course), but it’s supposed to make things better. At least they have 24/7 support, so they better be prepared for my barrage of nonsense.
Seriously, it reached the point that I just wasn’t feeling like posting anything because it was too frustrating. I wasn’t up to dealing with my own site, which makes me a bad site owner (“I didn’t mean for Fido to bite anyone. It just happened!”), so there I was throwing away money I don’t have on something that wasn’t working and was just making me angry.
Hopefully the VPS makes things better. If not… I have no idea what to do ;_;
UPDATE: Still super slow. Hopefully things will speed up once things propagate (right? right? Yeah, I don’t know how any of this works).
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Hi Harper,
I see you run your own WordPress website, have you tried deactivating ALL your plugins and set your theme to the main basic one?
Twice I’ve had problems with speed on my website and once it was because my theme was just not optimised and was slooow and the other time it was because of the Triberr plugin.
Going to bare-bones for a few minutes should show you what the problem is. If it is zippy fast in bare bones, you can add all the things back in piece by piece (just a few clicks of buttons as usually everything is saved even when you deactivate something), checking the loading speed after each change.
Good luck with the website!
I’ll definitely try that. The site is running so slow that I just don’t know what to do. I’ll have to contact tech support if I can’t figure out how to fix it myself.
I’ll probably upgrade my theme. I love the old Mystique, but it just might be too old for the current version of WordPress.