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Do I really have CPU resource issues?

Arghhhhhhhh! I’m still having hosting problems!

I finally contacted my web host the other day after not hearing from them for well over a week and they tell me that my CPU resource usage for my sites – which ones I don’t know! – is still high.

I’ve got several domains and several different types of programs running the sites on the domains so it’s hard to pinpoint which domain let alone which website might be causing the problem if they won’t help me by telling me where to look.

I just find it odd that now that I’ve upgraded every single piece of software that I can they aren’t sending me daily messages but when I actually ask them they say the CPU resource usage is still high. You’d think they’d be writing to me daily when they get their reports if it’s still high.

Make sure your site is easy to navigate

by Tricia

I run a number of blogrolls and as I visit the sites that have requested that they be added to my various blogrolls – the do follow list, Green Thumb Sunday, I am Canadian Blogroll and the Toronto Bloggers blogroll just to name a few – I get a chance to examine the design and structure of a lot of blogs.

I must say, I get most frustrated when I’m looking at some of the sites that want to join the do follow blogroll because of course I have to check to see if their comments follow or not.

Here are a few things that make my job of checking sites a little more difficult:

A lot of links or ads where the comment link is located:

It’s very hard to find the comment link when it’s buried within a number of links requesting that visitors social bookmark the post.

If people can’t find the link to leave you a comment it’s no wonder that you have very few comments. Just think if the comment link was at the top of the post, or on it’s own line below the post how many more comments you’d get?

People that have their comments closed to registered members:

Well for one – if you want to be on the do follow blogroll you need to open your comments up so that your visitors can get a link that follows when they leave a comment.

A lot of people just wont sign up to leave a comment. Believe me, you’ll get a lot more comments if they are open to all.

Sites that have a few or several posts on the main page but no way of traveling through the site to see older posts:

Get some navigation on your site! If I like your site or if I’m searching for elusive comments so that I can clear your site for the do follow blogroll I want to be able to travel through your site easily.

If you have archives set up by date your visitors will have to click on a number of links just to read a few posts if you don’t post multiple times each day.

Give me a way to get to the single post page:

Some sites are set up so that you can click the title of the blog post and that will take you to the single page for that post where you can comment on the post. That’s great. I love sites that are set up that way.

My problem is with sites where you can only get into the post to leave a comment by clicking on the permanent link, if you can find it see my first point, or comment link.

On blogger sites sometimes clicking on the comment link takes you to the blogger comment form. I don’t always want that. It’s much nicer to read comments on your blog than on the blogger comment page. Especially if the comment form is a pop up that’s too small to show the whole comment. I’ve run into several of those lately and you can’t adjust the size so you can’t read the full comment.

My suggestion to all is for you to take a look at a few other blogs and compare the features on other blogs to the features on your own.

Is your site easy to navigate in a number of ways?

Are important things such as the ability to get to the comment area clearly visible so that your visitors can find them quickly and easily in order to tell you how much they love your post?

If your site doesn’t have some of the features that I’ve mentioned and you want them, but don’t know how to add them on your own do a Google search with the name of your blogging platform in the search term as well as what you want to learn how to do.

for example:

add navigation links to blogger blog?

I actually just used that search term and it brought up a lot of helpful results.

I believe that the easier your site is to navigate the longer a visitor might stay and the more likely it will be that they will take the time to leave a comment if your content is good. Test my theory, try it for yourself.

Web hosting problems – CPU resource over use – help!

by Tricia

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.

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