WordPress MU

Hi

On my WPMU site, the blogs are really slow to load. It seemed to happen after I was editing the wp-admin.css file, but I think that was just a coincidence.

Follow the Blog links on the left menu of this page to see what I mean:
http://sourdough.net.au/

Thanks

My two htaccess files:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%1/$1 [R,L]

# force a trailing slash for dirs
RewriteRule !\..{2,4}$ - [C]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]*)/?files/(.*) /wp-inst/wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# subdirectory passthru
RewriteRule !^subdir - [C]
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-inst/$1 [L]

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htaccess file located in wp-inst/ directory:
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RewriteEngine Off

<Files wp-content/blogs>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
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Loads in under a second for me on a pair of OC-192s. Would help us help you if you gave us information about your own setup, both your server and what you are using yourself.

Here's my own .htaccess files:

root

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite http://www.domain.com to domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%1/$1 [R,L]

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^google(.*).html google3eef57005ee47ac4.html
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml wp-content/blogs.php?file=sitemap.xml [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)?/?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I don't have a wp-inst directory and am wondering why you have one.

Is your server based in Australia. Sometimes the servers there can be quite a lot slower.

have you tried it from another machine
i spent well over a week trying to sort my "slow" blog out and then when at a friends i tried his net and it was fine

Is your server based in Australia. Sometimes the servers there can be quite a lot slower.

That's probably more the connection than the servers.

I'm based in Australia and so the connection should be faster for me.

A while back I pinged multiple top Aussie based hosts and then pinged multiple top US hosts. The US hosts were much faster across the board.