NEED HELP – webhost says my WordPress blog is using too many resources

  • mrstangblb

    (@mrstangblb)


    20 years ago

    I run a small deals website called TheCheapestLink. Yesterday apparently there was so much activity on it that my webhost (HostPC.com) suspended my account. In talking with them further, they are saying that my index.php file and the resources it takes to work the MySQL processing is using too many resources and I have to take the blog off their server.

    Is this a bogus request? I’ve never run into this problem before, and now all of a sudden I can’t use it anymore. I have 10GB of bandwidth, but the backups of the database are about 6.7MB.

    Can ANYBODY give me insight into what I should do? Is this a common occurrence, or is it just my webhost?

    I had about 500 to 600 viewers coming in daily, and I post usually 10 to 20 deals daily. I show 2 days of posts on the homepage, and I have archives going back to August when I first started the site.

    I’ve backed up my whole site, and if it is time to migrate to another webhost, I’m thinking about taking it to DreamHost.com.

    Please… any insight will be greatly appreciated!

    Barry

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  • abrazell

    (@abrazell)

    It shouldn’t be an issue at all. I’m a webhost as well as a blogger and I run at least 4 blogs myself on WP on my server and I know there are others. Without seeing any custom mods made to index.php, I’d say your host either recognizes that some customization is doing too much or is full of crap.

    blogthing

    (@blogthing)

    You may want to look into the staticize-reloaded plugin to help reduce server load. But, having said that, 600 page views a day really shouldn’t be anything close to being an issue for the host.

    piginzen

    (@piginzen)

    It shouldn’t be an issue at all… Get a new web host…

    I use site5 and have for 5 years. They are the best.

    https://www.site5.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=5

    davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    WordPress pre-1.5, without modifications, running a bunch of plugins, could easily be a resource hog.

    I don’t have enough hands-on time with 1.5 yet, but there’s been claims of cleanup/optimization.

    For CHAITGEAR, which recently got slashdotted, I’ve done a number of things:
    1. I have debug code that, when I’m logged in, shows me all the queries (plus other stuff) that happen on each page.
    2. I’ve written a small piece of code that allows me to cache some generally-static queries to datafiles, thus reducing a bunch of lightweight-but-unnecessary hits on SQL.
    3. I’ve done some modding to Staticize-Reloaded, and will likely release my own variation on it. Staticize is great if you have a generally static site overall. I had too much dynamic code processing, and thus I only turn it on when needed.

    Without seeing your site and analyzing further, it’s hard to say. If you’d like to take this offline and discuss it in depth, I’m happy to lend my ear, and what knowledge I have. I’m also moving hosts, given that I need something like a VPS where I’m guaranteed resources — and I can also give some recommendations there.

    -d

    I’m having the same problem.

    The blog seems to take up too much memory. Is there anything that can be done so that it doesn’t take up so much memory?
    ram_usage – 57.1 – /usr/bin/php user
    ram_usage – 61.0 – /usr/bin/php user
    ram_usage – 53.4 – /usr/bin/php user
    ram_usage – 51.3 – /usr/bin/php user

    Can anyone offer so help with this?

    Thanks,
    Dave

    We need info – you cannot give us too much.

    Who is your host ?
    Where is your blog ?
    What plugins are uploaded and which of those are active ?
    Has there been any warning of this happening ?
    What were the last few changes you made to your site ?
    Do you have a comprehensive report from your host as to the problem ?
    Are you prepared to allow someone from here to have access to your blog admin to take a look round ?
    Info, info ??

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