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My WooCommerce store is grinding to a halt whenever visitors browse product pages. The site often throws database-connection timeouts, even though it’s running on a dedicated server. At the moment I haven’t installed any performance-optimization plugins, so you’ll be starting with a clean slate.

Here’s what I need:

• Investigate the root cause of product-page lag and database timeouts.
• Review server configuration (PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, NGINX or Apache, caching layers) and suggest or apply tweaks.
• Configure and fine-tune caching, object caching, or CDN settings if appropriate.
• Recommend and, with my approval, install lightweight performance plugins or custom code to speed up queries and reduce page-load times.
• Clean up bloated database tables, transients, and autoloaded options without risking data loss.
• Document every change so I can maintain the improvements going forward.
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Success looks like consistently fast product-page loads (ideally under two seconds) with no database timeouts after your optimizations. If you’ve tackled similar WooCommerce performance issues before, I’d love to hear how you solved them.