I finally had time to sit down and figure out why the site was loading everything so ridiculously slow… and the reason was simple. So simple I don’t even want to tell you. But I will.
When I was first transitioning hosts, I had a problem setting up the database locally. As a temporary workaround, I grabbed the externally accessible URL from my old hosting provider and continued to use that database. Then… I forgot about it and let it sit there and use a remote database for some extended amount of time.
The only reason I found out is because I was about the wipe out the entire site (after making a backup) and start over to see if that would fix any database problems I was experiencing. I grabbed the values from the config and noticed that it didn’t say localhost like it should; it said <decision you now regret you made many months ago>.com or something.
Anyway, after a quick update of the database location and a restore of the files/database, it appears everything is up and running without any problems and at a speed I don’t want to smash something over.
This is exactly why I make action lists 🙂 Too bad I started that habit after I made the database workaround decision >.>
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