[wp-hackers] Memory outages and wordpress

[mailapera]

@peter van der does Thanks I tried isolating the ip addresse, but they
change continuously

@vid luther thanks as I said it is a VPS - virtual private server, so
I agree with you

@christopher ross thanks I will look into the RSS caching



On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Christopher Ross <cross at thisismyurl.com> wrote:
> Recently I discovered that one of my blogs was serving 25,000 pages a day. The site itself was cached but the RSS feed wasn't cached, so the a page with the CPU weight of the homepage was loading 25k times a day ... that was causing massive memory issues.
>
> I offloaded my RSS feeds to Feedburner and forced the redirects in my .htaccess, now my sites are running smoothly.
>
> c.
>
>
> On 2010-09-14, at 3:27 PM, mailapera wrote:
>
>> After months of memory outages I installed a capcha plugin to reduce
>> the spam comment posting. The memory outages disappeared, so I
>> inquired my hosting (I have a vps) as I have no clue of what resources
>> intensive commenting could take up.
>> This was their response
>> "Wordpress is fairly resource intensive. You may look into installing
>> one of the various caching plugins, and do some research on the term
>> wordpress performance optimization"
>>
>> I did not know WP was resource intensive, it seems a short hand reply
>> to me, if not a BS reply. However I would like some opinion on this
>> please. I have about 300 visits per day on the server, and 1G of ram.
>> Thanks
>> _______________________________________________
>> wp-hackers mailing list
>> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>
>
> __
>
> Christopher Ross
>
> Toronto      1 (416) 840-5828
> Fredericton 1 (506) 474-2708
> New Orleans 1 (504) 322 3485
>
> http://christopherross.ca
> http://www.thisismyurl.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>