tarheelrambler

Just a brief comment to add some more history to this thread. I have been on GDHosting for 18 months, on WP2.7.1 since it was released (upgraded to 2.8 today) with no sustained problems with slowness. There was a brief period this week where the admin panel seemed to load slowly, but it was a brief occurrence.

Overall, the combination of GDHosting and WP has worked very well for me. And I have to say that the two or three times I’ve needed help from GD Customer Service, they have been extremely responsive.

WordPress installation isn’t linked to the operating system of your computer. WordPress is a Linux app running on a server, either at WordPress.com or your own hosting service.

It sounds like you’ve got your own hosting, so the upgrade files would need to be uploaded to that server. In other words, you need to be able to access the WordPress files on the Yahoo server for your account and have the ability to FTP the upgrade files to the server.

The files on your Mac don’t do anything.