Title: How can I reduce PHP memory?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# How can I reduce PHP memory?

 *  [meteeliew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meteeliew/)
 * (@meteeliew)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-reduce-php-memory/)
 * Actually I was advised by somebody here to ask my web host to increase php memory
   so that I can install wp.
 * My web host cannot do that attributing to that this would make their server down.
   Instead they asked me to change something in wp to reduce php memory.
 * How can i do this? Please advise.
 * Thank you very much in advance
    Regards, Metee

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-reduce-php-memory/#post-568416)
 * Gotta admit that I would be leaning towards a new host. A simple change of the
   default memory from 8 megs to something larger shouldn’t be causing a server 
   to fail unless it’s a very very cheap box.
 * Also considering that a google search for your error shows that many other packages
   have the same problem with lack of memory ffrom PHP shows that it’s a PHP issue,
   just a WP one.
 * The onlt thing I can think of is adding teh following line to your .htacess file
   within root:
 * `php_value memory_limit 12M`
 * Please see if that works.
 * Do note though that if you can’t even install wordpress, you’re going to have
   additional issues further down the road if you were to get it installed.
 * Good luck,
    -drmike

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