Anyone Hosting a Word Press Site?

[dcv]

We had a new site built that is using Word Press. It is terribly SLOW. Company is blaming "sonic.net" servers. I know it's not sonic.net servers, but if I had sites on sonic.net that were using Word Press that were not slow, I could rebut their claims. We've been with Sonic for 17 years. Hate to switch ISP's to find out what I already know....

If someone would respond with a link to their Word Press site (hosted on Sonic) that would be great!

Thanks.

[thulsa_doom]

I've had a couple of Wordpress-powered sites on the Sonic.net web cluster for years, and they've run nice and snappy for me. There are a number of possible causes for slow page loads. Have you pulled up the developer tools in your web browser and checked out a timeline of when the various elements of your site complete? That can be really useful in tracking down the specific bottleneck.

[dcv]

Thanks for your response John!

Unfortunately, I am not building the site (it's a third party company). So they should be figuring it out.

However, they are making two claims. One is that Word Press is part of the problem. Two is that Sonic.net servers are part of the problem. I know that neither is true.

However, without evidence to the contrary, we might be forced to switch ISP's to prove our point.

I was really hoping for the URL of a Word Press site hosted on Sonic.net so I could prove that neither Word Press or Sonic.net servers were the problem.

Do you have a URL of a site?

Thanks!

[thulsa_doom]

Here are a couple from another thread:

http://timsheiner.com/blog/
http://kellyjensendvm.com/

From looking at them as well as a couple that I run, I'm seeing a spread of anywhere from 0.45 to 1.74 seconds of wait time between my browser sending the initial GET request to the server and transmission of the content. During that time the Sonic.net servers are executing the Wordpress code, talking to the database server, and so forth to produce the HTML. Once my browser has the HTML it goes off and requests the various other elements of the page (css, javascript, images, what-have-you). For those subsequent requests, I'm seeing response lag in the 30-50ms range.

By contrast, the main Sonic.net site has a ~220ms lag for me at the moment, Google has a 307ms lag, and NBCOlympics.com has a 152ms lag.

An off-Sonic.net Wordpress site run by a friend and former coworker of mine clocked in at 837ms, and had so much additional content that it took fully eight seconds to finish retrieving everything. So of that eight seconds, one was Wordpress, and seven were his Instagram badges, Twitter API calls, and one really big screenshot of a Playstation game.

[tikvah]

Mine are:
http://norwitz.net/
http://ehnca.org/

Both are Wordpress sites hosted on Sonic.net.

Cyndi