Title: CPU Usage in Hostgator
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# CPU Usage in Hostgator

 *  Resolved [edonbajrami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edonbajrami/)
 * (@edonbajrami)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/)
 * I have a wordpress website in Hostgator and it is stopped. 503 Service Unavailable.
   I have talk with support and they say that it is caused because of CPU Usage.
   How to find out it is cause of plugin, or from another thing ?
    I’m using this
   plugins:
 * 1. WordPress Seo – Yoast
    2. ACF – Pro 3. Contact Form 7 4. Events Calendar Pro
   4.8 5. Google no captcha recaptcha 6. Maintenance 7. Page Links To 8. Polylang
   9. Post types order 10. Search Everything 11. Simple History 12. Taxonomy Terms
   Order 13. The Events Calendar

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 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966597)
 * You should check your server logs to see if anything is getting an unusually 
   high number of hits. You could also trying running a reduced set of plugins for
   a while to see if you are running too many plugins on shared hosting.
 * It is possible that you simply get too much traffic for sharted hosting. If that
   is the case, you will need to upgrade to a VPS or something similar. You could
   also shop around for another host.
 * To monitor CPU usage, there is this plugin:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-server-stats/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-server-stats/)
 * If you like getting your hands dirty, here are a couple of other resources to
   try:
 * [http://www.zabbix.com/](http://www.zabbix.com/)
    [http://munin-monitoring.org/](http://munin-monitoring.org/)
 *  Thread Starter [edonbajrami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edonbajrami/)
 * (@edonbajrami)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966604)
 * Thnx kjodle for your reply, but the problem is that the website is down. I just
   only have access to FTP and phpmyadmin. Cannot check if it is caused because 
   of plugins.
 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966622)
 * FTP into your site and change the name of the plugins folder. This will effectively
   deactivate all of your plugins. If this is truly the cause of your issue, your
   site should come back up shortly.
 * Either way, you should have a chat with Bluehost.
 *  Thread Starter [edonbajrami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edonbajrami/)
 * (@edonbajrami)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966628)
 * I think the problem is with “Simple History”, too many attempts to login by unknown
   users. All this attemtps are saved by “Simple History” plugin. That will cause
   CPU usage. Will change the name of “Simple History” plugin to deactivate it. 
   Thnx kjodle 🙂
 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966633)
 * Cheers! (You might want to report this to the plugin author, in case there is
   a weakness in the plugin they need to address.)

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 * [503-service-unavailable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/503-service-unavailable/)
 * [cpu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpu/)
 * [cpu-usage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpu-usage/)
 * [hostgator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hostgator/)
 * [Service unavailable.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/service-unavailable/)

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 * Last reply from: [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-in-hostgator/#post-6966633)
 * Status: resolved

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