MAMP Vhosts Slow

Question

Ever since I started using Vhosts with MAMP, page requests have been quite slow. It takes 3 to 5 seconds or more to process a page request. I'm wondering if it's the way my hosts or vhosts files are setup:

hosts:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost

255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

127.0.0.1 mysite.local www.mysite.local
127.0.0.1 anothersite.local www.anothersite.local

httpd-vhosts.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mysite.local
    ServerAlias www.mysite.local
    DocumentRoot /Users/username/Sites/mysite.local/
    <Directory /Users/username/Sites/mysite.local/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName anothersite.local
    ServerAlias www.anothersite.local
    DocumentRoot /Users/username/Sites/anothersite.local/
    <Directory /Users/username/Sites/anothersite.local/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Change your ServerNames to example.dev or something other than .local. Forgot the technical explanation but basically, .local is used by Bonjour.

Answer 2

The hosts resolution process for things in /etc/hosts/ is very, very fast, even if there are hundreds of host declarations in there. The name-service cache daemon keeps such lookups in memory as well, so they should be even faster.

The problem is most likely somewhere else.