If anyone has any ideas as to how to reduce my various sites CPU resource usage on my web hosting server I’m all ears.
Yes, if you’ve been reading a number of blogs in a row you might have seen that I’ve posted about my problems on a few blogs – don’t get confused … it’s all me. I just need help and I’m looking for suggestions!
I’ve just spent the last few days updating all of our blogs software and plugins. Turning off unnecessary plugins or ones that I thought were using resources that I didn’t need them too.
I did add one plugin to all our sites though and it was WP-Cache. I’ve had a few people ask me if I’m using that yet and yes, I’ve been using it now for a few days.
Trouble is my web host still says my sites are over using the CPU resources.
Here’s whats going on in my hosting account. Maybe someone can see a way I can reduce CPU usage?
I’ve got a shared hosting plan on Lunar Pages. The plan is very similar to what one would get with BlueHost. There are 17 websites on my account – 10 domains, 17 sites.
On my main domain Feverishthoughts.com I’ve got 7 wordpress blogs running. I bought 6 new domains to move some of those blogs to and I’ve been working on those sites but as of right now they take up little space and likely use very little of the CPU resources. However my plan is to move the sites over when the new domains gain a bit of PR … then I’ll be back to 11 or 12 websites.
Two domains have websites on them. One is a very large and fairly busy HTML based website. Since it’s HTML based I don’t think it’s causing the problem. This domain also has a subdomain running a blog on it.
The other website is running on Joomla. I had an old version of Joomla running the site until two days ago. Now that application has been updated to the latest version and I’ve removed some components and modules that might have been causing problems.
I’m actually hoping that it was the Joomla site that was causing the trouble – and hoping that by upgrading the site and getting ride of a few faulty components that I’ve solved the problem. I’ll probably find out later today when I hear from my web host about my CPU resource usage over the last day or so. Oh caching is activated on the Joomla site as well and has always been so if it’s working properly it should help.
So again … all the blogging software has been updated. Plugins such as google sitemap have been updated, and the Joomla CMS has been updated. Plus I’m using WP-cache on the WordPress blogs.
I can’t think of anything else that I can try to do to lessen CPU usage.
The sites are fairly busy but not that busy! How many page views and unique visitors a month does it take to make you move to a Virtual private server or a dedicated server?
Out of the 11 active sites only 3 are extremely busy. The rest get traffic but only 100 to 150 visitors a day at the most.
In total – all the sites – active and not yet very active domains got a total of 255,641 visitors and 722,038 page views last month. I’m sure the sites will be up to a million page views per month by August or so, especially when the new domains get a bit more active.
I’m not saying that 3/4 of a million page views a month is a small amount but really … is that enough to have to move off shared hosting?
Any ideas? I’ve got to resolve this problem ASAP as it’s driving me nuts and keeping me from doing real work on my sites.
I’ll see your question about storage and raise you one about hosting multiple domains on one account. When I tried to put a second domain on my hosting it threw off my whole permalink structure. Any ideas?
They must be cracking down because I’m using lunarpages and they just booted me off for CPU usage. I had to buy a VPS account for 45$ month.
Hi Mark,
may you can chmod your httacces with 777
One thing you could do to reduce your CPU usage would be do get rid of cumbersone Javascripts that hog resources. Maybe the problem is widgets like MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog? I recently got rid of MBL myself because it was slowing down my page loads too much.
Do you have any tracking software installed server side that could be eating resources?
I am currently experiencing exactly the same problem as yours. I almost removed all my plugins and i also did try using a 2 column minimal template. I installed wp-supercache. but my account is still uses excessive resources. They always telling me to upgrade to vps or dedicated hosting.
what i did now is i clean the codes, removed more plugins, and installed hyper-cache. it lowers my usage but still not enough for their production server. I’m really running out of option. If i remove all my plugins it is much better to host my blog on a free hosting site.
I also think that this is one of their way of “forcing” their shared account holders to switch to their vps or dedicated hosting plans which is very costly.
I have been in the same situation for quite a few days. My sites(6, to be exact) are hosted in one account on a budget plan, and got 300 visits or less per day. They are not hot at all, really.
Thanks to Slavezero, Now I know the real answer to the cpu resources secrets.
I just experience it just about 20 minutes ago. I had just reinstalled a few plugins on one of my sites yesterday and updated my sites content recently.
During the pass 8 hours, I noticed particularly the Hometrik site was having high traffic as per any one time I checked, it was around 200 plus visitor and members.
After that, I received email from my host telling me that I had overloaded my cpu usage and shut my site down!
Only after a few exchange of emails they decided to re up my sites. Warning me not to let that happen again. What?
I asked them, meaning if I host on shared hosting package, I can not have high traffic?!!
I agree with slavezero that the host is “forcing†their shared account holders to switch to their vps or dedicated hosting plans which is very costly.