Reaching Resource limit way too fast?

  • Hey everyone,

    I currently have my WordPress website hosted at GoDaddy.
    I’m using the basic plan with 512MB memory usage.

    Even when I’m the only one visiting the website, it is horrendously slow and on the GoDaddy cPanel is gives the error saying: Resource limit is reached. Try adding more resources.

    Shouldn’t be needed right? I know I’m the only one on my website and it still takes 30 seconds for each page to load. Since it’s a web shop I cannot cache everything.

    Since GoDaddy doesn’t have a live chat, and I hate calling, this is my only way to ask for help.

    Hope you guys can help me out here,

    Kind regards,

    Nathan

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  • Since my experience with VPS says you need MORE than 1GB RAM to do much of anything in WordPress, I suspect the same holds true for GoDaddy, though I don’t know what they count as part of that 512MB. For example, in a VPS, my “more than 1MB” number includes Apache, MySQL and the hundreds of other pieces of software that are part of a typical Linux web server.

    The most likely reason that you are seeing a memory problem as the only authorized visitor to your site, is because the reality is that almost all web sites with a public URL are being visited by bots, hackers, and such sometimes several times a second.

    Since I’m seeing people on these forums unable to run their Admin panels without increasing their PHP memory limit past 256MB (remember, that number is Per Use, and on top of Apache, MySQL and other memory usage), it does not take much to go past 1GB total RAM usage.

    Forgot to mention that, even on a closed site, with no public URL, as the only site visitor, WordPress’ built-in wp-cron does run some processes “behind the scenes” which are triggered by your access to the site.

    One large example would be an automatic WordPress version upgrade.

    Thread Starter nathanvj

    (@nathanvj)

    @jonradio thanks for the information.

    So the only solution would be to upgrade? Sigh ??

    Yes, you really do need more RAM to run WordPress. I would suggest searching for something that you can afford elsewhere. Good solid shared hosting is available for less than $5 U.S. per month.

    I haven’t checked out pricing recently at the 4 hosts that WordPress recommends:
    https://www.ads-software.com/hosting/

    But I can say, from personal experience, that there are lots of good choices around. I currently use a mix of Shared Hosting and VPS for the 20 or so websites that I support. I only recommend VPS for techies like myself who are willing to learn enough to support Linux.

    Thread Starter nathanvj

    (@nathanvj)

    I already bought 1 year at GoDaddy and I can upgrade to 1024MB for $24 (full year).

    Will 1024 MB be enough?

    Hard to say if 1024MB will be enough. Probably, but no promises. GoDaddy has been known to limit resources pretty tightly, so you really don’t know if “Resource limit is reached” is referring to RAM. Again, probably.

    If you are not using PHP 7, this could be a processor issue, as I had a Raspberry Pi that took 7-15 seconds on a page click in WordPress Admin on PHP 5. 100% CPU-bound.

    PHP 7 generally requires half or less the CPU (processor) time.

    If it were me, I’d try for a refund, if you are within their money-back window, which varies by vendor from 30 to 100 days.

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