Since I upgraded Movable Type to version 4.2 the blogging software has run at a snail’s pace. Speed was a concern I had before I upgraded, but now things are even worse. It’s takes approximately 40 minutes to run a simple site rebuild. There are a series of other quirks I’m dealing with as well. Implementing FastCGI helped a little, but then I started getting a series of 404 errors so I had to go back to regular CGI. It appears my problem is with Dreamhost which is a shame because other than a few random outages they’ve been good. I thought that it might be because I’ve upgraded Movable Type a few times, but I did a test blog from scratch and it took an hour to rebuild. Dreamhost just isn’t good for Movable Type and I don’t believe they have any plans to correct the problem. The site is so slow that I can’t take it anymore. I’m at the end of my annual period so I’m looking for other hosting alternatives. The prospect of rebuilding the site on another host doesn’t make me very happy, but it really can’t be helped.
If anyone stumbles across this entry I’m open to suggestions.
Update 3/8/2009: A small update to my Movable Type issues. I contacted Dreamhost a couple of days ago and they’re going to move my site to a new server. Evidently the site is currently on an older and slower server. Dreamhost has told me the switch will be a bumpy ride, but hopefully it solves the site issues.