title: Amazon EC2 Bitnami Wordpress Extremely Slow
body: <p>I've encountered several issues with Amazon EC2 &amp; Bitnami Wordpress AMI (RedHat) on small instance.. and honestly I don't know who to ask :) I'm not a SysAdmin/Linux expert, but I've learned basic SSH commands and other things required to keep going for a basic start.</p>
  
  <p>So here's what is happening:</p>
  
  <p>Wordpress website is loading extremely slow - PageSpeed &amp; YSlow score is 27 of 100.
  I think this is caused by memory_limit in php.ini. When I installed Bitnami Wordpress AMI, imported WP Users, set the theme and other basic things, I wasn't able to even access wordpress website - just a blank page showed up. After few solutions, I've tried increasing php.ini memory_limit from 32M to 128M (Max). And I've increased WP memory limit to 64M.</p>
  
  <p>Website loaded properly and users were able to access it - but it's extremely slow.
  When I try decreasing php.ini memory limit to 64M, website shows up a blank page again.</p>
  
  <p>Only thing that I can think of currently is increasing EC2 instance from .small to .large or similar. Please let me know your thoughts on this issue.. and many thanks!</p>