I have an interesting problem with my site. I¹m using Firebug and yslow (awesome tool and book) to evaluate my page load times. Things are fairly reasonable, given that there has been little optimization so far. But there is one strange bug. My first access can take upwards of 30 seconds for anything to happen just a blank white browser while I wait...and wait... After that first hit, things are fine, regardless of whether I use different browsers, different PCs, flush caches, etc.
Its almost like the server is sleeping (remember this is a new site and is locked down so its possible that hours may go by between hits). Or maybe there are caches, like APC, that need to be filled up. Or Apache is on a cigarette break. Or DNS is doing lookup using the yellow pages. I don¹t even know where to begin to look or what log may hold the key. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Cliff P.S. My APC cache shows 2 day uptime, 125,000 hits, 500 misses, 99.6% hit rate. So this doesn¹t look like the problem.
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