If your Wordpress 2.1 is slow…

I just debugged a strange issue with this Wordpress 2.1 blog. It’s running 2.1.2 to be exact, but I think the problem manifests itself with all 2.1.x versions. My site was running really slow - 40-50 seconds per page load. I had just moved it to this new host which is also running a few Rails apps. The Rails apps were running *fast*, so it wasn’t the box.

I checked top and it showed the box was fine. I bounced Apache and MySQL. Still slow. I tried static pages - those were fine. I tried a phpinfo page - that was fine.

I googled and googled and finally found this Wordpress thread: [resolved] Update a post and blam.. every pageload is 20 seconds. The solution? I had to add www.luisdelarosa.com to the /etc/hosts file. I guess WP 2.1 has some sort of reverse DNS code in it.

So - if your Wordpress 2.1 site is slow, add your blog’s hostname to the /etc/hosts file. You could also backtrack to Wordpress 2.0.1. I’ll have to look into moving over to Mephisto sometime.

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Published:: 4.6.07 / 3am

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My name is Luis de la Rosa and I am an iPhone Consultant helping companies make iPhone apps.

I also develop my own Mac OS X and iPhone apps via my company Happy Apps. The first of these apps is WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager for Mac OS X which lets you tag your bookmarks and synchronizes with del.icio.us.

I have been making iPhone applications for clients the past year through my company Happy Apps LLC. Through Happy Apps, I have also been developing Mac OS X apps and Ruby Rails apps for the past 3 1/2 years. For over 14 years, I’ve been developing commercial and in-house applications in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Objective-C.

I like to share what I’ve learned either from hands-on development or the latest books I’ve read. I used to do it in person when I worked in a cubicle but now I get to share it with everyone via my blog. I don’t really miss the cube. :)

You may have also found me chatting about nothing and everything with other Mac/iPhone programmers at Twitter or you may be within six degrees of separation of me at LinkedIn.

Daniel Jalkut 4.6.07 / 7am

Why Mephisto? Is it better than WordPress in other ways? It seems like finding and fixing a little tweak like this is … frustrating … but that you’d be not unlikely to suffer similar setbacks on any blog system.

luis 4.6.07 / 1pm

Daniel,

Well if I have to delve into the PHP code to fix Wordpress (which I was tempted to when I couldn’t find the answer), then I’ll just go with a Rails-based blogging system since I spend a lot of my time with Ruby on Rails nowadays.

But for now, I’ll keep going on Wordpress.

Daniel Jalkut 4.6.07 / 1pm

Ah - I didn’t realize Mephisto was Rails-based. Typo is also Rails as you may know.

dee 5.18.07 / 11pm

i have this slowness problem too, but i’m blog dumb. when you say add the hostname to /etc/host where exactly do i find that? thanks so much!

Dan Lapoint 12.13.07 / 9am

dee, you need to have root access to your web server to do that. the hosts file is sort of like “manual DNS”. If you want to custom-specify an IP/Name relation, you would add the IP address and the hostname to this file.

I know this is an old post, but I just had the same problem, and adding the server’s IP and the blog’s hostname to /etc/hosts did fix the problem.

Luis de la Rosa

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