How to deal with a high server load?

by ParisB on June 11, 2009

If you have been following my beauty blog then you might be as frustrated as I am everytime you try to go to the site and find a Network Error or most recently a Suspended Page.

The reason is because its been crashing my host’s server. So much so they’ve suspended it while they take a look at what might be the cause.

I don’t get all that much traffic to be honest. Its reasonable and its been that way for a while. So things have been pretty much constant. Yet recently, its been server crash after server crash and high server loads after another. I’m totally bamboozled!

I’ve uninstalled all the plugins I can do without. I’ve tried to scale down my theme. I’ve done all I can and still its bogging down the server. I read that some “must have plugins” like WP Super Cache and Yet Another Related Posts Plugin can incease the server load.

Yet the former is considered useful for keeping loads and bandwidth down and the latter one of the best for serving related posts. The true cause is being tracked but I wonder if its either plugin causing it or horrors! the theme?

Times like this I wish I knew how to read codes. But I can’t so I can only sit here gnawing at my finger nails hoping for some good news from my host.

Soon please? *gnaw gnaw*

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When you don’t know the end…

by ParisB on June 9, 2009

When you don’t know the end of a TV series you are watching, it can be really frustrating.

I was watching a TVB series recently called “To Grow with Love” – nothing serious and not all that good a series when it comes down to it. But after watching it for about 2 weeks every evening and then to suddenly have the final episode wrenched away because you had to go gawk at a RM84k pen

Yeah… frustrating indeed!

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How much for this pen?

by ParisB on June 4, 2009

84k for a pen! Gawking at it is all i can do at mont blanc while sipping wine and munching on nibbles :)

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You know you’re domesticated when …

by ParisB on June 3, 2009

… You’re more excited about cooking dinner with your new pot than with the latest product in town. :) making pasta for dinner. Mmm…

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