If you have noticed, and one of the reasons that I am seriously thinking of switching hosting providers once the time runs out for the contract agreement is the ubiquitous fastCGI error that keeps on cropping up on this site when trying to get pages to load. The few times we have been slashdotted or otherwise showed up in a system that can deliver a lot of traffic fast, this place usually keels over.
And yes it is a word press blog, and yes we still love word press, but honestly we thought it was more an idea of crappy IIS with Zend and timeouts that are too low to properly support the site. Comes along coding horror, that might just change our mind about this.
If you are hosting word press on a windows IIS/PHP combination, you might want to read this article.
We see this error a lot on our web site
We see it every day, we see it when the system is not stressed (at least when we have 10 people per hour and see this) we see it just about every time we want to do something interesting with the blog. Frankly it will be hard to convince us that it is a word press issue and not an ISP issue, we sponsor another word press MU blog on a native Linux hosting provider, and have yet to see an problem, with our windows IIS/PHP provider, we have accepted the mediocrity that is running Word Press on a windows based system.
Frankly, a native Linux system works better, we have seen it, tried it, and proved it to our satisfaction. While the coding horror story is fun, it would be even more fun to see what the top output looks like for a word press blog on a Linux box. Just as a comparison to see if it is the underlying OS, web server, php installation, or some other issue that is causing the CPU overloads.
Keywords: cpu, wordpress, coding horror, linux, windows, apache, iis, php, zend, speed, loading
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Are you using any sort of cache program? May want to consider installing one. Looks like you’re using version 2.1.3 of the software so you still have the option of using the built in object cache.
You also have the option of creating static pages if you user a more up to date version.
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