I recently noticed that a site I'm working on is intolerably slow, not when a visitor is looking at it, but when we're working on it.
I wrote my hosting service to see if there was some kind of problem. This is what he wrote back:
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I found this in the logs which could be the reason why Wordpress is slow…
baggettfamilyfarm.com [Mon Nov 04 11:28:59 2013] [error] [client 76.164.194.74:53561] AH01215: WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away for query SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish') ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 16 made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), wp, WP->main, WP->query_posts, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
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He suggested I check with the forum to see if anyone could explain to me if this could be the reason for the slowness, what might be going on, and how I might be able to fix it.
Thanks for any help. At this point, it's almost impossible to work with the site.
Martin