Title: Reducing server load?
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# Reducing server load?

 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/)
 * Is there anything that I can do to reduce server load? I got like 10k hits today
   and my server load went through the roof (not sure if it was WordPress’ fault
   or not).
 * I’ve made the first page of the news cached if the user isn’t logged in, but 
   is there anything else that I can do? I’m not using the template feature either.
 * [http://www.finalgear.com/](http://www.finalgear.com/)

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/#post-193862)
 * Shearing some of the larger graphics down in filesize might help a bit. And the
   less graphics a page has, the less HTTP requests required to load it; if you 
   can, find ways of minimizing the # of images you display.
 *  [WP Realty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/php4ever/)
 * (@php4ever)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/#post-193877)
 * That site is real nice.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/#post-193885)
 * Use WP-Cache or equivalents. That’ll lighten the load a ton.
 * Graphics use isn’t through the roof by any means, but anywhere you don’t really
   need it, cut it. 😉
 * -d
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/#post-193891)
 * You could also consider running WP as a set of static pages rather than a dynamic
   PHP site. There are a few plugins for this. One of the recommended plugins would
   be EZStatic: [http://www.asymptomatic.net/_wiki/EzStatic](http://www.asymptomatic.net/_wiki/EzStatic)
 *  Thread Starter [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-server-load/#post-193892)
 * Thanks. I’ll look into those. 🙂

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