Some of you may (or may not) have noticed the lengthy load times over the past couple days. I have for a while now, hosted my personal sites on a shared GoDaddy plan. Shared hosting is essentially one computer split up and used by a whole bunch of people. It’s great if you don’t use a lot of processor time and you’re trying to save a few dollars here and there. In any case, I called them up some weeks ago to complain about some lag problems I was having. They reported no issues and blamed it on some recent heavy server load due to some other users on the server.

Attempting to take matters into my own hands, I installed the WP Super Cache plugin. This nifty little bit of code automatically rendered static HTML pages from my dynamic PHP files. This greatly reduced the load time for most viewers, as they simply had to download a small file instead of waiting for the servers to process the original code. Improvement aside, this didn’t eliminate the problem completely, nor even help on the backend administrator panel. Read more