Ever since I switched to Bluehost a few months back, I found that my WordPress site had started loading extremely slow. I would have to wait about 30 seconds before the homepage would load and just as long for any other page within the WordPress application. At first I thought it was Bluehost, but then it would load a lot faster at the university that I attend. In January my internet provider had switched us to their Fiber To the Premises service, so even though that service is much faster, I thought maybe it was the cause and since I couldn’t do anything about it I left it alone.
After dealing with this for about 4 -5 months, I decided that it was time to investigate the issue again. So for starters, I decided that I would blame the WordPress application first and work my way from there. So for starters, I disabled all of the plugins that I had installed. Amazingly, that showed some results. RyChannel.com was loading instantly again!!! NICE! Now, the question became, which plugin was causing it? I went through and activated the plugins that I absolutely “had” to have. Ok, WP didn’t slowdown again. I started activating the other plugins one by one until the problem started again.
Okay, so which plugin was it? WP-Ban. WP-Ban is a WordPress plugin that allows you to block visitors by IP address, IP range, etc. I’m not quite sure why I had it installed, but now that it is gone, RyChannel.com’s WordPress application works fantastic.