In a previous post, WordPress woes, I went through the procedure I used to solve some performance problems related to how the IP address on this server is NATed.  Well, there was another problem somewhere that caused the WordPress admin to be incredibly slow most of the time, caused Akismet to not work at all, and a variety of other… Read more »

Well, as part of my WordPress install, I am using the Crawl Rate Tracker plugin. It shows the hits on your blog from various spiders and so on. In it’s dashboard (in your WordPress admin) there is a nifty chart that visualizes the info. Or, at least, there should be. In my case, I got a text link that just… Read more »

During the journey of installing WordPress, choosing a theme, setting up plugins, and so on, I ran into a problem that oh-so-many out there have hit: terrible performance in the WordPress admin (downloadable version of WordPress, not at wordpress.com) Well, to make a long story short this time: Do as everyone recommends, despite believing that the problem occurred before a… Read more »

Well, as my first post, let me touch on some wordpress performance problems, as I just ran into said problems while getting this blog running. So, I setup this virtual server a couple weeks ago.  On it, I installed a variety of things, including some other PHP-heavy sites.  All of them work great; faster than I expected, in fact. Today,… Read more »