Hi Richard, On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:09:16 am Richard Ibbotson wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:31:03 Michael Chesterton wrote: > > Both google and yahoo have firefox plugins that might help diagnose > > the problem. One is called yslow (I think that's yahoo's) and > > googles is speed test toolbar or something obscure like that. > > > > Does the page wait for a few seconds on a blank screen and then > > download quickly, or does it start downloading straight away but > > slowly? > > Kind of a bit of both. I can hear the box grinding trying to deliver > a web page and then for about 5 or 15 seconds something is happening. > Doesn't matter where I download the page from or which operating > system I use to view the site. Same result. There is 1Gb of RAM in > the box which should be enough for a machine that delivers about two > web pages a week. > > Kind of wait for seconds and then download slowly. Annoying problem.
I'd suggest the WP-Cache or WP-Super-Cache plugins, which precompile the php to html so the server doesn't have to recompile the pages on each access. The GZIP-Output wordpress plugin is also recommended. Cheers Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
