Title: Server Overloading
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Server Overloading

 *  [rmsilver7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmsilver7/)
 * (@rmsilver7)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-overloading/)
 * I have a client that is running WordPress 2.9.1, they are a fairly popular site
   averaging around 1,000 visitors a day. Since adding them to my VPS about a week
   and half ago we have been running into major server overloading issues. My server
   tech guys and I have been trying many different suggestions they have found here(
   optimizing MySQL and PHP, adding eAccelerator, trying different themes, turning
   off widgets, etc.) but we are still seeing server spikes.
 * After some googling and searching here, I found a lot of people have had issues
   with wp-cron causing spikes, but most information I have found is outdated or
   never answered. After I forwarded this information to my tech support they started
   monitoring and recording when the spikes were happening. What we found is almost
   every hour, on the hour, and sometimes at 10 after the hour, the server load 
   is spiking very high.
 * My question is this wp-cron that is causing this problem? Has anyone else had
   this type of issue and successfully resolved it?
 * I do have other clients on the same VPS that are running various versions of 
   WordPress but they just dont have as much traffic as this new client.
 * Any info or suggestions from anyone would be greatly appricated. Thanks in advance.

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 *  [travelhorizon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travelhorizon/)
 * (@travelhorizon)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-overloading/#post-1345095)
 * Since updating to 2.9.1 I have been over my CPU limit. I am not technical but
   I have tried all sorts of deactivating/redesigning/caching, etc and I am still
   over. I’m wondering if it is in wp itself. My site is travelhorizonstyle.com.
   au.

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## Tags

 * [cpu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpu/)
 * [cron](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cron/)
 * [vps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/vps/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [travelhorizon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travelhorizon/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-overloading/#post-1345095)
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