{"id":3303,"date":"2014-11-13T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:19","slug":"hopefully-my-site-will-speed-up-fingers-crossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/hopefully-my-site-will-speed-up-fingers-crossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully my site will speed up (fingers crossed)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so if you’ve tried to visit my site in the last year, you’ll have noticed that it was so frickin’ slow<\/i>. 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the VPS makes things better. If not… I have no idea what to do ;_;<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Still super slow. Hopefully things will speed up once things propagate (right? right<\/i>? Yeah, I don’t know how any of this works).<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

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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. 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