Title: Server memory usage problem with host ASO
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Server memory usage problem with host ASO

 *  [sandercath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandercath/)
 * (@sandercath)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-memory-usage-problem-with-host-aso/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-memory-usage-problem-with-host-aso/#post-1083797)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunblock/)
 * (@sunblock)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-memory-usage-problem-with-host-aso/#post-1084021)
 * 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.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-memory-usage-problem-with-host-aso/#post-1084022)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-memory-usage-problem-with-host-aso/#post-1084022)
 * Status: not resolved

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