{"id":2281,"date":"2016-08-08T20:51:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:57:27","slug":"wordpress-going-slow-read-this-before-you-upgrade-your-hosting-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/wordpress-going-slow-read-this-before-you-upgrade-your-hosting-account\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Going Slow? Read This Before You Upgrade Your Hosting Account!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wordpress-logo\"<\/a>From time to time we all experience slow downs on our websites. \u00a0Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, these can happen occasionally and can be quite frustrating – particularly when we think we’ve put in lots of time to make our site run like a well oiled machine. \u00a0Wordpress Hosting accounts used to be pretty niche – but they are becoming increasingly common now.<\/p>\n

Essentially, WordPress Hosting accounts are just a branded version of the commonly known shared hosting. \u00a0Wordpress Hosting accounts usually (but not always) have less disk space and bandwidth available then a regular shared hosting account – and they normally come in a bit cheaper. \u00a0Maybe just a couple of pounds per month.<\/p>\n

You’ve landed here, you’re WordPress<\/a> blog is going slow and you don’t know why. \u00a0You think you need to upgrade your hosting account – but before you do that, you might just need to a couple of things to get your blog back up and running at normal speed.<\/p>\n

Firstly…<\/h2>\n

Let’s check whether there’s any obvious reasons for the WordPress slowdown:<\/p>\n