Speed slowdowns are hard to pin down where in the entire process the bottleneck is coming from, as we know.
I get some weird things happening that I tend to blame Comcast for…but can’t pin down. Sometimes I can fix it by a reboot, which implies some temporary corruption either in my browser or the Mac OS.
Sometimes I have cause to worry the site itself is slow for some unknown reason. It’s a shared hosting situation, so it could vary depending on other users traffic…or maybe we’ve got a WP plugin bug…or as you know, a slew of possibilities. Some of which possibly could need fixing, if they can be “isolated” as source of the problem.
We have close to 30 active plugins at our WP site. They are constantly being updated. Ya never know, sometimes a bug is thus introduced, then fixed in the next update. Or not, and I have to track it down and de activate it.
Right now about 4pm 4/11/2013, PSA site and internal links seemed to load fairly quickly.
If it persists, I can check on our “SiteBlock” security software…see if they report anything nasty has been “added”.
Let me know if it seems to “stay slow”… or possibly keep track if it’s a persistent fast/slow stop/go traffic like LA 405…
Thanks for the trouble report…this info is crucial to maintaining our site in good working order.
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A couple other things we can run into causing a slowdown. Backups and security checks.
There’s a couple different auto backups setup that backup our site. Once every 12 hours, for one of them, and once a week for the other. I also will manually back up our site using the HostGator “control panel” for our WP installation maybe once every week or two.
Generally it would be a rare occasion to be accessing the site at the same time as a backup was ongoing…but it might slow one down if that occurred.
SiteBlock also runs security checks of various kinds on our site at unknown intervals…also would be rare to “run into that ongoing” while one was accessing PSA website, but it could happen.
And I imagine HostGator does some sort of maintenance from time to time, upgrading software, installing new hardware etc. If I was more of a webtech expert, I would probably know ten other things that can affect speed but don’t indicate anything “wrong”.
Thanks for the update. I just posted without any slowdown.