Server memory usage problem with host ASO

  • sandercath

    (@sandercath)


    17 years ago

    I have had a wordpress blog since 2004, and have now amassed a database with 600+ posts and 20,000+ comments.

    I’m on a ‘large’ package with ASO, but am told that my blog is too heavy for a shared server. I’m currently only getting about 1000 visitors a day, I have supercache installed, and I just don’t get why my blog is using 490MB of server memory (=12% of their shared server resources.)

    As a personal blogger making no money from the enterprise, it pains me to shell out 90$ for month to move onto a VPS when I have such low traffic.

    Has anyone out there experienced similar problems and found any way to tweak their installation performance to get it within reasonable parameters that enable a shared server setup?

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years ago

    that is a load of crap from a bad host

    you need to switch to a decent one – tweaking your site further is a waste of time with “help” like that
    this is a fairly typical ploy to get big bucks from not so knowledgeable users

    sunblock

    (@sunblock)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    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.

    Shane G.

    (@shane-g-1)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    In this case we need to increase PHP Memory limit. These are the different ways to increase it:

    1) Please check php.ini file in the root/public_html folder of your site. Open php.ini file in text editor and change the values for memory_limit. By default it should see memory_limit = 8M. Try changing it to 12M. if it wil not resolve the problem then try to increase it either 16M or 24M.

    2) If you can’t find the php.ini file, open up the PHP file which requires more memory and add this line just after ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘12M’); we can increase memory upto 16M or 24M to resolve the issue. But do it try with 12M first.

    3) In last, open the .htaccess file from the root/public_html folder and add this line php_value memory_limit 12M

    From anyone of these trick you can work and rid out from the PHP error.

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

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