I am hosting my site on hostbig.com and my site is down from time to time 'cause they put my site offline 'cause of big server load, they say my site is generating big server load, i have 2 sites and they tell me that and i know that that is happening only when i have big traffic. I don't get it what can I do to solve this? One of them told me to remove all pictures from my site ( LOL). Any help or to go on another hosting providers? Thanks for advices upfront. Mario
I checked out the hosting company you're currently with and they're offering unlimited for everything. Usually such sites have many users on the same server and the server may not be optimized for equal share. I would not recommend stripping out the contents of your site just to accommodate the host's server. I would suggest you to ask them and see if they can check the logs and actual stats to see which script or part of site is causing such "extreme CPU loads" and to see if the loads were really by your sites or some others' on the same server. I don't think you can do much to do server side or script optimization either because you don't ahve access to do so or install some. Either way, you should move on to another hosting provider. Can't guarantee but most likely you might not even need to upgrade to VPS. To be honest, this time, go for a provider that's not selling unlimited and/or for unreasonable price. Check DP's hosting section: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98 for provider's plans and also search around for reviews. (Don't forget there will be some bads and not all good reviews about the provider. But it's easy to decide from reviews if it's a real bad or just personal opinions)
- Optimize your script. - If current users of your site are more than 100, buy VPS. - Install nginx for cache proxy to decrease CPU load.
hm i have another site and it has big traffic x3 than this one and also when I was at this hosting service it gone down (LOL), now I did transfer to another hosting service and everthing is fine. Just to say for all the people reading this, don't use hostbig.com for hosting 'cause it is only for low traffic sites! kaung thank you very much for your thread and other member 2 admin you can close this thanks
I would have to suggest a vps for you as well. I can give some recommendations but im not sure if im allowed to on here?
VPS is a virtual private server, it's like having your own dedicated server but cheaper. If you're new to administrating linux servers it might be best to find a managed provider, where they will give you the technical support you need. You'll then have no problems with getting too much traffic, it will just be a case of making sure you have enough RAM/disk space on the VPS and the software optimised properly.
I would recommend you to go with a VPS too. There is always limitations on shared web hosting and they are not told to the customer . With a VPS, you are the only one on the virtual server and have no limitation other than your dedicated ressources.
thanks anyway but I found hosting that is really good and capable of big traffic and they gave me dedicated server for free
Free? That would rock. Lucky you! Currently paying $45pm, our sites really don't fit on there anymore, we just have to bite the bullet and go to the next plan up ($65pm). You gotta change hosts, you gotta change hosts.
Not really, about 20k uniques and 200k hits a day, across a couple of sites (mostly one site though). Just that I have some Drupal and other CMSs there, and they need more CPU than a plain html site. We used to be on shared hosting last year, when our traffic got too high we got all manner of interesting 500 errors and cannot connect to the database errors, so we had to move to a vps.
I think you pay too much but that's just me... You can try to contact hosting24.com and ask if they can support your 20k uniques, but I think they can without any problem. I didn't have any problems with them and I had about 10k uniques per day and about 300k hits. But as I said I got dedicated IP. but I think you can always bargain for price if you take for a year or something like that
That's what you get for using drupal ... the sites just run horrifically slow when the CPU is all used, and caching only does so much. It would be a different matter if we just had flat html sites. All the 2G VPSs out there seem to cost between $60-80, I haven't seen any cheaper yet.