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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostYes, I have some very simple, easy-on-the-plugins sites as well where it’s pretty much impossible to get through even adding a new post without hitting 500 errors.
Hostgator has a similar shared hosting product but I haven’t tried them yet.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostBy far the MOST frustrating thing about DreamHost 500 errors is this:
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You’re in the middle of updating WP or plugins and you get an error while inside the WP dashboard. You have to ftp into your blog and delete the Maintenance file, which is hidden. Happens all the time.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostNothing new to report. Still having issues as outlined above. Most likely the FeedWordpress plugin and depending on how big a feed it has to parse.
But I wish there was more transparency with hosting companies in this area. DreamHost, HostGator, GoDaddy, etc, none of them advertise the amount of memory that comes with an account.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WPaudio MP3 Player] [Plugin: WPaudio MP3 Player] Abandoned?Yay Todd! Very happy to hear that. I tried a lot of them before I found yours.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [podPress] [Plugin: podPress] Version: 8.8.8 did some very weird thingsWhew! That did it. My feed is back to normal. I cleared the posts in my itunes browser and then refreshed the feed and the articles that shouldn’t be there are gone. They are still in any cached feeds, like my Google Reader, but so be it. Thanks Tim. This is a hefty plugin that has to cover a lot of ground and I appreciate that it must take a lot of your time and energy. Thanks for making it!
I use the wpaudio plugin to publish short clips of audio that illustrate a point in blog posts. It seemed like posts that had those audio clips went to itunes. In at least one case, where I had linked to another podcast, that showed up in the itunes feed, ie. nothing to do with my site other than that I had a link to it.
In the Google Reader feed it seems like the last 10 blog posts showed up whether they included audio or not.My podcasts are kept in a separate directory and for those posts the podpress info pane shows the correct information.
8.8.8. hadn’t added any information to the podpress info pane, the posts that weren’t podcasts were empty.Hmm, still have the error, but now wondering if it matters. My tracking ID seems to be showing up in the Amazon urls.
Not having any luck here either. Seems like it WAS working. But now I’m getting the error message.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostThanks kinkool, but exactly! I’m already running a single WP install on a unique user account and with SuperCache enabled. I’ve done everything the DH support suggests that doesn’t require command line sysop expertise. I have a few other WP installs that are lighter and they mostly run fine, only occasional 500s. I was moved to a new server in the last 6 months. That seems to be about when my troubles started, but that’s only anecdotal.
But I guess the takeaway is that until hosts publish how much memory comes with their shared hosting, we don’t really know what we’re getting.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostThanks James, that gives me a frame of reference. The difference between the two results above are my FeedWordPress plugins. Since this particular site is built around what they do, turning them off isn’t really an option. But at least now I have a good idea of what my minimal memory requirements are. That will help in the search for alternative hosting solutions.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostUsing the Memory TCP plugin.
With plugins:
# Usage Sample: 34.23MB
# Peak Usage: 35.4MB
# All-Time: 78.44MB on 10/16/10 @ 4:03 am (shutdown)
# Load Averages: 0.55 0.76 0.77Without (except WP SuperCache and the TCP Memory plugin):
# Usage Sample: 24.43MB
# Peak Usage: 24.66MB
# All-Time: 78.44MB on 10/16/10 @ 4:03 am (shutdown)
# Load Averages: 1.06 1.11 0.91Can anyone translate that for me? Does it suggest about where the DreamHost process watcher is set at if I’m not getting 500s when the plugins are not running?
How does my memory usage compare to an average WP install?
Thanks!Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostMy site is built around a busy plugin (Feed WordPress), so turning it off isn’t really an option. DreamHost won’t tell me how much memory I’m using or how much I’m allotted so I don’t really have enough information to understand the problem. I think this TPC memory plugin will help, Thanks! I’ve heard of people having memory issues with VPSs as well, so before I move to another hosting company or a VPS, I want to have a good idea of how much memory I’m using.
Here are the links the DreamHost people sent me about memory issues.DreamHost: All right it looks like you’re hitting our process watcher. This exists to make sure no one exceeds the memory limits on your shared server which would cause problems for all the other users on the server. When your script(s) consume too much memory, it will kill the process. The end result is an entry in your error.log and a 500 error on your page. We have a few wiki articles that may help you find the source of this and troubleshoot it further:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Finding_Causes_of_Heavy_Usage
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/User_resource_reporting
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Bots_spiders_and_crawlers
DreamHost: Since you’re also using WordPress for this site, definitely check out the wiki pages below as well as they contain information specific to optimizing WordPress:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/WordPress_Optimization
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Fine_Tuning_Your_WordPress_Install
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHostThanks for the feedback! Adding the memory on demand line to my wp-config file helped me out of a jam when I started getting out of memory errors and the site wouldn’t come up at all.
I probably have about 30 sites on my DreamHost acct. however, as per their suggestion, the problem sites are on their own unique user, and memory is allotted by user, not account, as I understand it.
I’m using the FeedWordPress plug-in to aggregate Tweets via RSS. Probably that takes a lot of memory. I’m mostly just having fun and experimenting, the sites are getting little to no traffic.
Once there’s a SuperCache page, the site loads quite quickly. But when the page is being created it can take upwards of 30 seconds or so. That’s when I get the 500 errors.
But I was looking forward to doing some experimenting with WP 3.0 multi-sites. Now I’m thinking I won’t even bother. I’ll wait til I hear where people are having success running multi-sites on another Host and get an account there.
Congratulations on your blog and thanks again.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t Bulk Actions >Edit >Delete TagsI used Simple Tags up until I think it was WP 2.8 broke it. Liked it. Just checked back in with it, working fine… You can mass delete tags!
You can’t however filter posts by category and then delete associated tags, like you would be able to do if Bulk Actions-Edit> Select tags in Tag box> Delete key (looks like it’s removing the tags right?)> Update in fact removed the tags from posts.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Code In PostI got something onto the page using Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress, but it sure doesn’t look like poetry. Only wanting to show users the method for adding a YouTube video or mp3 audio to their post.
Shouldn’t be this hard.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Anarchy Media Player AMP 2.5 Broken in 2.7?Thank You,
I’m on DreamHost (and very happy with them overall) and have a query sitting on the Support forum. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will stumble upon it and find a solution.