Server Performance

Server performance determines how quickly a website responds to any request, including the repeated automated requests an RSS-to-social tool makes to check for new content. A slow, overloaded, or misconfigured server can cause feed fetches to time out, which looks like a broken automation even though the content itself published just fine. This tag covers the hosting, caching, and configuration issues that affect feed response times, along with practical fixes for keeping a feed reliably reachable by the tools that depend on it. Two specific failure modes get their own articles: feed timeouts caused by a slow origin server, and feed bloat large enough to affect Core Web Vitals on the page that links to it. Both are worth reading before blaming an automation tool for missing posts.