WordPress Running Slow with Amazon RDS - wordpress

Question

I'm working on a server containing a WordPress installation located at http://67.225.176.58/ which is using Nginx, Varnish, and HH-VM and is running really slowly. I was using PHP-FPM with the same results. Please see my Nginx configuration to see how I have it set up and I can give any other configuration files needed. I can't seem to figure out what the issue is.
nginx.conf
worker_processes 24;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 50000;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_buffers 4 32k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
server_tokens off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# increase buffer and timeouts
fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
client_body_buffer_size 10K;
client_header_buffer_size 1k;
client_max_body_size 8m;
large_client_header_buffers 4 16k;
client_body_timeout 12;
client_header_timeout 12;
keepalive_timeout 15;
send_timeout 10;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
server {
listen 8080;
server_name host.friendshipcollar.com;
# note that these lines are originally from the "location /" block
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
fastcgi_keep_conn on;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
}
friendshipcollar.com.conf
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
root /usr/share/nginx/friendshipcollar.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name 67.225.176.58 friendshipcollar.com www.friendshipcollar.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location ~* \.html$ {
expires -1;
}
location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
expires 168h;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
allow ::1;
deny all;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/friendshipcollar.com;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to PHP-FPM server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache’s document root
# concurs with nginx’s one
#
# location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
# }
}