Volunteer Nimda

Hi Yorman

Many thanks for your reply.

As it happens I’ve solved the problem, more by luck than skill.

I had been reading various posts about changing the php.ini to increase the size of file that could be uploaded, but it turns out they had given the wrong folder to add this to.

Have now corrected this, so sucuri security was not at fault!

(Still doesn’t explain why it had previously been possible to do this without editing the php.ini

Many thanks for following this up.

oh dear should have checked before I posted:

obviously meant “pinging” our site (not being our site)

Thanks

The problem now seems to be that the multi site is being hit by a huge number of hits which doesn’t have one IP address but is someone trying to access the site by adding ++liker.profil_URL++ to some of the sites urls. They make up nearly 50% of hits recorded by stats.

Also a large number of attempts to access wp-login.

The web host says I am exceedin the 2 FULL CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM.

But this only happens in peaks when these strange requests are made to the web site.

I appreciate your response. I was not aware of any “rule” like this, and because on a previous wordpress blog had included rss feeds on the home page from other blogs did not think it would be different for a multisite.

In fact I assumed this would be one of the benefits of setting up a multisite.

Are you able to suggest an online resource where I could read up on this and any other pitfalls with multisites.

I started using wordpress more than a few years ago and suspect I have not kept uptodate with more recent developments and good practice.

In terms of the blog user / visitor experience I think the tag page seems a very clunky solution. Not intuitive in terms of accessing info, which is why the rss feeds are such a good straightforward and intuitive (for the user) enhancement.

Would collecting the rss feeds from the multisite through an rss feed aggregator cause the same problems as displaying the rss feeds direct.

Would appreciate an feedback on this.

Thanks again

Have still not been able to get our web host to express as an actual figure what CPU usage our sites takes.

However it is clear that even though they offer a good deal in terms of web storage and bandwidth they dont seem to match this with processing power.

They are now saying that each site within the multisite is the equivilent of a database and it is this processing that is meaning we are exceeding our resource limit.

They claim a wordpress multisite is the equivilent to an e-commerce site. So when I asked about the cost of upgrading to that they were honest enough to admit it wouldn’t come with any more processing capacity!

As far as I can tell from shopping around shared hosting companies not one of them lists or itemises what restriction there is on CPU usage and Processes.

A bit like offering enough space to build a large house fully wired, but then telling you the generator means you can only have the lights on in one room!

So not sure whether to redesign the whole site to just a single wordpress blog.

Thanks for all feedback.

Thanks for the reply and the link. I think I maybe haven’t expressed myself well or used the wrong words.

Its not that the site is slow to load, but that we keep getting limited because our web host says we are exceeding “resources”. ie even a visitor to the site will get a message saying site exceeded resources call back later!

The site has remained the same over the past 2 years, ie we get the same number of visitors etc.. The only thing that is new is the jetpack installation.

So we were wondering if these multi installations of jetpack could be the reason we keep getting told we have exceeded our resources. The web host defines these as CPU usage – we only update 2 or maybe three times a week. All plain text postings no graphics. Also physical memory. And on both these we keep hitting the maximum set by the host.

So I suppose my question should have been, even if we are not updating is jetpack creating CPU Usage and using physical memory through visitors clicking through posts, signing up to email alerts or …

Were we wrong to install jetpack in each minisite within the wordpress multisite when we use very few of the options offered.

We are a small community group run by voluteers and are low level users. So, even though jetpack is an attractive bundle, should we just install the functions we need as stand alones, ie stats, subscribe by email is jetpack creates a lot of CPU usage and takes up physical memory.

I have an image of the stats of our usage but not sure where to load it to illustrate what is happening.

So to summarise, when we haven’t exceeded out limit, site is quite fast, but then we quickly reach our usage limits. Is this caused by jetpack being installed4/5 times?