Need wordpress optimization person

[CIVMatt]

I'm looking for someone to help me with a WordPress site I have that has just shit all over my server process wise. It's a image post site I've had for a few years and is now slowing everything down. I've been trying to get all the images optimized and have installed W3 and have even upgraded my server only to find it's made things worse.

My server company simply wants to turn off the site but that isn't an option and they have no other ideas.

Fris or any other guru's have time to take a look and see how to make this better? It's dog slow on the backend, slowing all my other sites, and this all happened fairly quickly.

[Fetish Gimp]

You might want to try the P3 plugin profiler
http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

It can at least give you a more precise idea of what the problem might be.

[bigchadjon]

>My server company simply wants to turn off the site

Have you been hosting this site at the same host for several years? Doesnt sound like very good tech support. lol Seriously though, there are variables to consider and have some basic questions for you. I would be happy to get a tech to look at this for you. Contact me via my Skype ID in sig.

[RyuLion]

Vooddoo get in here!

[HomerSimpson]

feel free to contact me...

also try replacing W3 Total Cache with
http://wordpress.org/plugins/db-cache-reloaded-fix/

[woj]

Is it a dedicated server? why would they want to turn it off?
how much traffic is it getting?

icq: 33375924 or email me at woj#a#t#wojfun#.#c#om to discuss your situation

[alcstrategy]

has it always been slow?
theres all kinds of reasons for things to be slow and you should try to explore all options as to why before trying to blindly fix them, but in any event there's all kinds of ways to optimize, but for caching apc works well.

You can try to install apc php extension and use wordpress apc plugin, but should probably do a combination of other things also. However it is most important to be certain of why the slowness is occuring and then react. I don't know your server situation or anything, but just saying as a general point

[SteveBee]

@ CIVMatt - did you get this figured out yet?

I have an idea that may fix this issue for you if you have not hashed it out yet.

[Fetish Gimp]

You might want to try the P3 plugin profiler
http://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/

It can at least give you a more precise idea of what the problem might be.

I concur.

Also, check your server's error log. You might be getting hit by bots trying to log into the admin, which should show up as 403 errors pointing at the site's wp-login.php file.

If that's the case you could use something like this in your .htaccess to allow only your computer's IP to log into Wordpress (assuming you have a static IP and you're the sole user. You could add more static IPs if necessary)

# Allow login access only to trusted IP #
<Files wp-login.php>
order deny,allow
Deny from all

# Trusted IP #
allow from 173.176.166.83
</Files>

Check out Wordpress' codex for securing Wordpress and google for more info on it.

[OneHungLo]

Your problem is bots / brute force attack hitting your wp-admin or wp-login.php

hc-custom-wp-admin-url add that plugin and change your admin to site.com/whatever

Then go in and go through your logs and block every Chinese/Russian/Eastern European ip that you see hittin wp-admin / wp-login.php