The site is back to horribly slow mode. I’m wondering if changing the PHP version really did anything or if it was just a coincidence. I wrote a little program to test the performance. I just does web requests over and over and keeps track of the amount of time they take. I’m requesting the web site root, a php script that just does a phpinfo(), a php script that does a single simple database query and a reqeust for a very small static html page.

Here are the average times for the first 80 iterations:

root            30686 milliseconds
phpinfo        1999 milliseconds
database     1895 milliseconds
html            244 milliseconds

I had uploaded and activated several plug-ins and thought that they might have caused the slowness. So, I deactivated all of the plug-ins to see if that would help. It seems to have helped a little…or it’s just coincidence.