: It looks like you have a significant performance problem. Somehow I doubt that you want bots to not index your content, so I'm just not going to go there... Absolutely the first thing you

@LarsenBagley505

It looks like you have a significant performance problem. Somehow I doubt that you want bots to not index your content, so I'm just not going to go there...

Absolutely the first thing you should do is set up caching. W3 Total Cache is a good start. I used to use WP Super Cache, but the former has many more options for setting up caching in various different environments. For instance, it is compatible with Amazon ElastiCache (memcached) and you will probably need to cache this way if you run multiple app servers (see below).

Using Zend OPcache is another very good idea as that will reduce your CPU usage.

Beyond that, the obvious bottlenecks in your server configuration are:


NFS. You didn't provide any details about this, but since you're on EC2, it's probably asking for trouble.
Having a single front-end server. It sounds like your traffic is high enough that you've reached the limit of what a single instance can provide. It's almost certainly time to scale it up, with a larger instance, or out, with more instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer.

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