The problem won’t be MySQL. It might be the way you have implemented it (designed the database, the queries you use etc).
I analysed your page with PageSpeed, and it looks like the problem is likely that you have a huge number of redirects going on.
Minimise redirects
Minimising HTTP redirects from one URL to another cuts out additional RTTs and wait time for users
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
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Remove the following redirect chain, if possible:
http://www.facebook.com/.../likebox.php?…
https://www.facebook.com/.../likebox.php?…
Also you can cache your images browser side, your images, css, and javascript can be significantly compressed, and your images reduced in size.
And you have dead links too:
Avoid bad requests
Removing “broken links”, or requests that result in 404/410 errors, avoids wasteful requests.
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The following requests are returning 404/410 responses. Either fix the broken links or remove the references to the non-existent resources.
http://samboads.com/…/blank.gif
http://samboads.com/…/263696-75x75.jpg
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