I’ve been constantly perplexed by the poor performance of the latest wordpress version. Today I finally got an error letting me know that my Bad Behavior plugin had banned me from logging in. At that point, I got pissed. My credentials were cached but for some reason, it identified me as a bad host. A quick rm -fdr on the damn directory fixed that. And, low and behold, all the performance issues I have been experiencing were fixed. Note to self, before bitching to your ISP, check all your bases to make sure it wasn’t something you were doing.