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1. rocky2925
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi Friends.
   Iam new here but not new to wordpress i've been using it from couple of years.
   Ok the problem is my blog has around 5-10k/day and my vps provider suspended my account.Reason is my site using more resources.
   And then i thought vps may not handle my site so i moved to a dedicated server.
   Xeon processor
   4gb ram
   500gb hdd etc.
   Now iam getting 10-15k hits perday and some times the cpu and ram usage are good but in peak hours they reach 3-3.5gb ram and cpu usage is almost like 60%
   I dont understand what i should do,i've tried the cache plugins w3tc cache etc.but when they are activated.My site is using more resources.so i disabled them.

   Presently iam using a theme which does not have a lot of images and a good one too.
   total 10plugins,i am not using any wp-robot or similar plugins.
   Just
   db cache reloaded
   facebook like box
   xml sitemaps
   disqus comments
   ncode image resizer
   pagenavi
   user online( this plugin isnt the victim)
   wp seo
   quick adsense
   statcounter

   i reguarly optimize my database through phpmyadmin.
   i installed APC cache when iam on vps but i gave a lot of errors so didnt gave it a try now.
   Thats it can some body tell me what should i do?

2. Shane Gowland
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   - Install WordPress SuperCache. It will reduce CPU strain through caching, not make it worse like you said.

   - Serve static resources through a reverse proxy or CDN. This will reduce the number of web server requests.

   - Limit the amount of memory PHP is allowed to use. Google "PHP memory limit" for some tutorials if you don't know how.

   - Go through your theme and strip out any unneeded code, images, stylesheets, scripts or conditional statements.

   There is not reason your server should not be able to handle that much traffic if you set everything up right. I serve 50,000 hits per day on a single server with 1gb of RAM.

3. Peter Butler
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Just to add on to what TheWebAtom said - Caching is where you should be looking at this point. I'm a fan of W3 Total Cache personally, but others have had great luck with other plugins. The important thing is that you get a real caching plugin installed and configured - doing so should provide significant performance improvements.

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