Hi there,
I know you must probably be tired of slow sites issues… I am new to WordPress, been programming "by hand" for years, I need to make my first WordPress site.
About my hardware. I have dedicated server, 64 GB DDR4, 1 TB SSD, Xeon Silver 4214, I use Proxmox and virtual machine is runnign Windows 2019. I run my custom made site that has quite a lot of users and the page opening speed is like 0.2 seconds.
When I installed WordPress and Woocommerce, the admin is at the beginning terribly slow. I have installed W3 Total Cache for pages, database, opcode, but nothing helps. Query monitor sees that page is open from 3-6 seconds and database access is 0.04 seconds. Seems database is not a problem. Opening of a page is.
I only have basic template that comes with WordPress, as I only have this 3 plugins.
Now my fear is that WordPress can not work well on Windows, do any of you use Windows? I can not believe my machine is so slow as my main site is very intensive and works great.
I tried reinstalling 5 times, I put this to my other server (older one), same thing. Installing theme, importing data to theme… I get to 15 second page opening time.
If anybody can point me in any direction I would be very grateful. It is not only first opening that is slow, every click on admin and the site takes 5 second for static page (site is "blank", so it is static I guess). I disabled the admin console on site and logged out, but the site is still slow. Page speed tests find site is ok, but initial load is slow, 4 seconds even for them.
Please help me, I need to make one page in WordPress… And I am loosing my mind, today I worked 12 hours and have no solution. I asked Chaude and chatGPT and tried their solutions, but didn't help (mostly increasing PHP memory to 512Mb etc.). I am using fastCGI.
Yours,
Jerry
it’s a problem in your setup. WordPress is famous for its “30 seconds install” (it actually is more like 5 seconds). It sounds like you have a corrupt DB, it doesn’t matter if it access fast, the response is slow, quite probably you missed some table index.
I don’t get the Windows part, do you mean you’re using Windows as your PC or are you installing WordPress on Windows server? If so, then that is the issue, as a matter of fact I think support for Windows server is gone (not sure)
I’m not big into running php apps on windows, from my experience it’s like trying to pass a square peg through a round hole.
However, that being said, many use windows and plex servers to host php and, more specifically, WordPress.
My suggestion for you would be to check the diagnostics page and see if you’re missing some critical php module. It should be located under tools menu.
From there, you should be able to start getting some performance back. Other than that, perhaps share your envirnonment settings (I.e. php version, MySQL version, modules enabled, etc). Also, increasing the memory limit on WordPress does not always guarantee a fix, and it’s mostly a bandaid fix. Look for the root cause of your issue.