Comments on: Site Troubles

By: jon

jon — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:25:28 +0000

You know … you don’t have to use a host that limits your cpu. Honestly, it’s just an arbitrary way to keep you from using all of the bandwidth, etc, that they promise when you sign up. There are plenty of hosts (plus vps) that don’t limit you by cpu.

By: Samer

Samer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:31:58 +0000

Hmm.. I may have spoken too soon, as I noticed my site was not accessible a while ago. Keeping my fingers crossed.

@ Xiaoyue: thanks for the tip. I chose my hosting company for the sole reason that they are based in Seattle where I live and I can pick up the phone and speak to the guy personally if I need to. I wanted that human touch after my experience with my previous host, which was disastrous to say the least.

By: Xiaoyue

Xiaoyue — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:35:45 +0000

I’ve been to your host company’s website and I’m kinda surprised, by how small the bandwith&storage is while the monthly price is very expensive. Take a look at Lunarpages(which I’ve been using for my website) or Hostgator(which has a good reputation), etc. Even their basic plans are better than this.
Hope this would help.

By: Samer

Samer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:58:19 +0000

Thanks so much guys for your input.
I tried WP-Super Cache hoping for a quick fix and… it seems to have worked.

My site wasn’t shut off since and it seems quite a bit faster to boot!

Thanks Alfred for letting me know about Yslow. I didn’t know about it and although I haven’t tried it yet I surely will at some point.

Also thanks to reader Davinder for emailing me about the WP-Super Cache plugin!

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:49:57 +0000

Hi there,
Maybe some of the links you include in your message is actively trying to connect to some sites…

Tony

By: alfred westerveld

alfred westerveld — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:34:27 +0000

Hi Samer, You should diagnose your site with Yslow and optimize your site.

By: Yaron

Yaron — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:20:24 +0000

In addition to a caching plug-in, you should also seriously consider upgrading WP from 2.5.1 to the latest (2.6.3). Some of the fixes are security ones, and someone hacking the site and running their own stuff can certainly cause similar problems. I assume that’s not the case now, or the people from your host would have probably noticed, but better to prevent any more problems…

By: The Windows Fix

The Windows Fix — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:15:08 +0000

Hostgator all the way. I know, you probably have a pretty solid host right now, but Hostgator is top notch when it comes to uptime and customer service.

By: RG

RG — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:46:36 +0000

I am sure I am going to be flamed for being a smart a** but this is just a suggestion I looked at your host’s site, not sure how you are using any or which of their shared as you mentioned or something higher plans, you might have gotten a deal or add-ons or something…either way you can get a very decent, not fly by night, VPS for comparable or even less and one that even includes management.

By: js9600

js9600 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:57:04 +0000

Rich is refering to WP-Super Cache Im sure, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ but there are other may be less “complicated” tricks – like WP-Widget cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/ May be both! Super Cache is the ultimate I guess but the little widget cache is super easy to install and test. Should be 100% safe to play with.

To test cache make WP tell you number of queries by inserting a line of code in footer http://wordpress.org/support/topic/151287 Then enable Widget cache and compare.

By: km

km — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:31:41 +0000

Why not upgrade your site to dedicated hosting or virtual private hosting?

I believe the money that you earn from here able to effort a VPS hosting or dedicated.

Provides better services to your reader…

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:37:28 +0000

My site goes down 1-3 times a day (that I know of at least) for 5 mins at a time. My webhost is pretty good, but I can’t afford a VPS right now (I don’t monetize my site in any way.)

PHP scripts can take up your CPU usage a lot. People will tell you that you don’t need a cache plugin unless you get 100s of thousands of visitors a day — NOT true. Even if you only get 5000 visitors, a caching mechanism can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce CPU cycles by reducing the number of SQL statement executions and reducing the PHP load.

If you don’t have a cache plugin, I recommend one.