High server usage, again and again.

  • Hello

    I have 4 websites which are running WordPress, which I have been using for many many years without problems. Since June 2015 my sites keep being switched off by the server company due to high resource usage.

    I am a light user, so each of the WP installations has just a few plugins.

    I try to keep my WP installations up to date but I don’t think that this is the problem because the server usage happens even on fresh sites. For example one of my installations is maybe a few weks old and is already causing problems.

    Below is the message I got. Maybe you could help me decipher it so that I know what to do. So far my efforts to solve the problem are futile. No matter what I do, the server gets shut down and I end up without any email access, without websites, my blog goes down etc. 

    Resource Usage
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Stats for 05 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.62
MEM Usage - %10.47<---------High
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.01
Top Process %CPU 56.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server-username/domain1/index.php
Top Process %CPU 52.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server-username/domain2/index.php
Top Process %CPU 13.50 /usr/bin/php /home/server-username/domain3/wp-login.php
Stats for 04 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %1.01
MEM Usage - %7.30<------High
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.02
Top Process %CPU 79.00 [php]
Top Process %CPU 69.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server-username/domain4/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Top Process %CPU 66.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server-username/domain4/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
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Unfortunately, this is high for the shared server environment. Please continue with your updates and optimizations to bring down your resource usage below 2% and please keep us posted on your work progress so that we can take an appropriate action further on this issue.
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Domlogs:
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/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:22:55 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:24:55 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:26:56 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:28:57 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:30:57 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:32:57 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:34:58 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:36:58 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:38:59 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"
/etc/httpd/domlogs/domain4.server.com:37.248.255.131 - - [05/May/2016:16:40:59 -0700] "POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1" 200 98 "https://domain4/wp-admin/post.php?post=616&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36"

    I have changed my true domains to domain1, domain2 etc as well as my server username to ‘server’. I simply don’t know if it is safe to post them.

    Please help me. Since June my domains have been switched off multiple times and I just can’t go on without emails for days until the server company switches my domains on for 24 hours, only to see high usage and switch me off again.

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  • Thread Starter MikePL

    (@mikepl)

    Oh and here is another message with some stats.

    Resource Usage
Stats for 08 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.00
MEM Usage - %8.39
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.00
Stats for 07 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.16
MEM Usage - %5.17
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.01
Top Process %CPU 45.00 [php]
Stats for 06 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.56
MEM Usage - %6.36
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.00
Top Process %CPU 81.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain4/index.php
Top Process %CPU 79.00 [php]
Top Process %CPU 0.50 imap
Stats for 05 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.50
MEM Usage - %9.74
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.01
Top Process %CPU 56.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain3/index.php
Top Process %CPU 52.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain2/index.php
Top Process %CPU 13.50 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain1/wp-login.php
Stats for 04 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %1.01
MEM Usage - %7.30
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.02
Top Process %CPU 79.00 [php]
Top Process %CPU 69.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain4/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Top Process %CPU 66.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain4/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Stats for 03 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.50
MEM Usage - %7.86
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.01
Top Process %CPU 74.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain3/subdomain/index.php
Top Process %CPU 44.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain3/subdomain/index.php
Top Process %CPU 14.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain4/index.php
Stats for 02 May 2016:
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CPU Usage - %0.73
MEM Usage - %6.82
Number of MySQL procs (average) - 0.03
Top Process %CPU 65.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain4/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Top Process %CPU 63.00 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain3/subdomain/index.php
Top Process %CPU 40.50 /usr/bin/php /home/server/domain3/subdomain/index.php

As a result, we have temporary suspend your account due to high resource usage on shared server.
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