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 just changed my hosts file from this:

127.0.0.1       abc.com.au
127.0.0.1       def.com.au
127.0.0.1       hij.com.au

to

127.0.0.1       abc.com.au def.com.au hij.com.au

Note: The concatenated website line cant exceed a couple of hundred characters.