sindark

To clarify, the new Identicons do seem to be 50 by 50 pixels, they just look a lot blockier than before.

I am having the same problem now. I called GoDaddy and they said the server was performing ‘acceptably,’ despite how my site is taking about thirty seconds to load.

I am trying out WP Cache as a mechanism for reducing the number of database calls. It’s the MySQL servers at GoDaddy that are really slow. Static content still loads quite quickly.

Aaboe,

Thanks a lot.

ekusteve,

Thanks for the tip. The fix you suggested works perfectly.

With some hosts, moving to a new version of MySQL is just a matter of requesting the change. Try asking their tech support people.