I’ve noticed that this blog is becoming somewhat unreliable and frequently taking a long time to load. Is this because WordPress is ineficiently coded and running through reams of PHP code in rendering the page? But after the page is rendered once, it should be cached by the wp-cache plugin and so subsequent loads should be fast. I note that the administrative console is rather slow, too, but it does seem to load consistently and doesn’t time out (as the main blog page itself does). Also, once I’ve loaded a number of pages and navigated around my site a bit, the server’s responses become quicker and more reliable. Is load balancing giving me more resources, learning my route, or some such? The response data itself can’t be cached, but can other aspects? Database queries? In general, though, perhaps DreamHost is just more burdened than it once was. Perhaps it’s time to move on. But I do have faith in those guys. And the one factor I absolutely love about DH is the customized control panel application, which blows cpanel and all other commodity-webhost online-configuration-management tools I’ve seen out of the water. I’m not ready to give that up.