Hosting a blog yourself is certainly one of the best things to do. Not only will you have full control of your data, but you will certainly learn a lot about technology along the way.
So today I decided to start writing a blog, once more, and hosting it myself. Here. Post 1.
But the /wp-admin/ panel is so painfully slow. The pages take up to six seconds to load.
But how can you figure out what is happening? I mean, sure, it could be my server. It’s just a Synology with a simple 4 core CPU.
But then, it’s just PHP?
So I found this nice plugin for WordPress, called Query Monitor. I will be visible in the top bar of the admin panel and show you exactly what is happening. And I found that:
cURL error 28: Resolving timed out after 3001 millisecondsSeems like the admin panel is trying to connect to http://api.wordpress.org/translations/core/1.0/ and is running into a timeout.
Strange. Connecting via ssh and running a nslookup is also slow as hell. So it really seems, that the DNS lookup is somehow broken. In my setup, my router (a FritzBox) is causing the delay in DNS lookups.
Solution: Switching to public DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 in the DSM settings, and problems all gone.
Next step: run a proper DNS caching server at home. I think it will be PiHole, but that’s another blog post 🙂