samboll, can you offer an actual solution then? It is no secret that wordpress hogs resources. I am trying to optimize a site now that only gets 4-500 visitors a day but yet uses near 2 gigs of memory, and this is with WP caching enabled. I see this same issue with wordpress sites frequently.
I hardly see the ploy that you mention, it is clear that wordpress is the problem here, not the web host. I love the simplicity of wordpress, but lets be honest.
All of the optimization faqs that wordpress provides are just basic server optimization tips that would matter on high traffic sites/servers but are irrelevant when dealing with sites of such small traffic. Sure they may have an effect, but it is not correcting the core problem. You can not expect a web host to fully optimize an entire server around one site that may only make up less than 1 percent of the actual traffic coming into the server.
