Before you jump ship, you might want to look into caching plugins. Wordpress doesn't cache much (if anything) out of the box. You'll probably get a good speed boost by setting up something like WP-Cache.
--- David Landry On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you know php & html, then I'd recode using those. > > Wordpress is a hacker's paradise. > > When I worked tech support at BlueHost, every evening someone would call > with a hacked CMS (Content Management System) > either Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Wordpress by the way was the worse. > > I'm not surprised that it's running slow. > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Robert Merrill <[email protected] > >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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
