Title: High memory usage and crash problems Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # High memory usage and crash problems * Resolved [theaccentshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theaccentshop/) * (@theaccentshop) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/) * Hi, * I am still in the process of building ecommerce website. I was testing the website on multiple computers at the same time clicking links and browsing. The memory limit suddenly jacked up to 512mb and the website crashed. I can’t imagine how bad it will be when 100’s of customers shopping! * I deleted revisions, disabled plugins, used cache. Problem still exists. I am using economy web hosting from GoDaddy. Is there something wrong with my hosting? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410823) * there’s nothing wrong with your hosting it’s just not big enough! the clue is in the word economy… * e-commerce sites use a lot of resources, lots of pictures, database calls, static and dynamic files, php calls to render content via plugins etc. you’re trying to run a large site (even if it’s still in development it’s large!) on small hosting. imagine trying to fit a pint of beer into a shot glass! * they may say that you have unlimited this and that but there are fair usage policies in place on shared servers and when you hit your limit and start to use other resources that are allocated to other sites on the same server cluster you can run into issues and even be penalised by your hosting company for breaching their terms of use. * if you’re serious about running a store with hundreds or thousands of users on it daily then you’re going to need a dedicated server so that all of the resources are yours. in the short term, upgrade your hosting package to the largest shared one you can afford and take it from there. * Thread Starter [theaccentshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theaccentshop/) * (@theaccentshop) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410838) * Thanks for the descriptive answer. I truly didn’t know the limitations of shared hosting vs dedicated servers. It might help for the short run to upgrade resources to: 2Gb ram 2 CPUs 2048 I/O 150 entry processes * I have no idea how to manage dedicated servers because that sounds intimidating. Do they have cPanel as well? * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410843) * [https://uk.godaddy.com/pro/dedicated-server](https://uk.godaddy.com/pro/dedicated-server) this is the uk godaddy dedicated server information (not sure where you are!) but yes, it does come with cpanel. it does also cost more than shared hosting but it’s all yours and you’re not sharing resources with dozens or even hundreds of other sites * Thread Starter [theaccentshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theaccentshop/) * (@theaccentshop) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410855) * I’m in the US. Both websites look the same. I was browsing around GoDaddy and I saw these multipe plans. Web Hosting: my plan WordPress Hosting: only difference that it comes with SSD? (I should’ve used that one maybe) Cloud Servers? VPS? Dedicated Servers: most expensive * Edit: each one of them seem to support WordPress and that makes it more complicated for me! * [jack randall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theotherlebowski/) * (@theotherlebowski) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410862) * explore the options, talk to their tech support (rather than the pre-sales people, they’re genetically designed to steer you towards the most expensive solution!) and see what’s what. if it’s going to be a big old site with lots of traffic and transactions then you need to be serious about the hosting it’s built on. uptime and reliable connections are the backbone of reputations and converted sales! * Thread Starter [theaccentshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theaccentshop/) * (@theaccentshop) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410873) * I will do that, once I collect some information about the potential monthly visitors. And I truly hope migration is not going to be problematic. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘High memory usage and crash problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Crash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crash/) * [Ecommerce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ecommerce/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [theaccentshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theaccentshop/) * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-memory-usage-and-crash-problems/#post-7410873) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics