Running sites on “localhost” is extremely slow

Question

Having real trouble using my localhost to test sites. It runs extremely slowly! Sometimes it takes up to a minute to load a page. I\'m using Firefox and the sites I\'m testi

Answer 1

I'm using Wamp Server, Windows 7 and a powerful machine.

My Apache is configured to run from a different port other than port 80. I also access my local site not via 'localhost', but a hostname mapped to my IP via dyn.com. I believe the fact that I'm running off of a different port than 80 seems to make Kaspersky's Web Anti-Virus feature very sensitive (since a lot of sketchy sites run off of different ports) and slows things down

Disabling it seems to have solved the issue.