My site is suddenly running really slowly

It seems like the slowdown was the result of upgrading the server somehow because it only seemed a little slow before I upgraded, and after I upgraded it's unbearably slow. My site is http://artfight.net. Linode support says it's not their problem. Can anyone help me? I'm really new to this so I'm not sure even where to begin, though I did find this article on here called Troubleshooting Memory and Networking Issues, and I'm not sure how to interpret it.

Here's the results of the steps in that article, but it doesn't say what I should do with the info once I get it?

free -m

~~![](<URL url=)https://i.imgur.com/WDBAmrD.png" />

ps -eo pmem,pcpu,rss,vsize,args | sort -k 1 -r | less

~~![](<URL url=)https://i.imgur.com/xiWG4xL.png" />

iostat -d -x 2 5

~~![](<URL url=)https://i.imgur.com/s31PFw0.png" />

After that there's the category "Low-Memory Settings" and "Apache 2 Low-Memory Settings", and those tell me to change some values in some config files but it doesn't tell me what to do after I change those values.~~

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Firstly.. What do you mean by running slowly? I just loaded your website, it loaded in like 2 seconds, and then spent several seconds loading discord resources.

But here's an issue. I wanted to show you the actual speeds in Firebug, but your page loaded 895 resources!!! Almost all of these resources are from the discord cdn, with few at first from your server.

Your few files are loading fine, then the browser struggles a bit to load 800+ items, but does it fine in 5 seconds.

Looking further, these hundreds of resources are the avatars of the people online in the discord chat.

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