WordPress at Go Daddy Slow Compared to BlogEngine.NET

Mark Berry June 19, 2010

Through the end of May, this blog was run on BlogEngine.NET and hosted on a Small Business Server through a DSL connection with a maximum 768 kbps upload speed. On June 1, the converted site went live on WordPress at a Go Daddy shared Linux host. I thought that performance would be at least as good on more powerful software at a well-connected host. So I was a little surprised to see the Google crawler’s statistics:

The per-page time is significantly longer, though still well under two seconds per page.

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