Last two days ago, my blog suddenly got suspended due to exceeding the CPU Usage according to my hosting provider TOS.  Well, if you are using Wordpress, you need to be careful that your Wordpress plugins or scripts will not lost your money.  I am apologize that I should improve these at first and apologize to any of my visitors that couldn’t access on these last two days.

This is the drawbacks if you want to find a cheap hosting, shared server and limited CPU usage, YOU MUST FACE IT.  It’s not “you have to”, but YOU MUST !!

Well if you are only 100-200-500 visitors a day, any provider can handle it.  Except, your Wordpress plugins are buggy, too many scripts and etc. Here are the tips from me on wordpress….as in the following….

Here are my improvements to reduce CPU usage resources:
1. I already removed the “related posts” wordpress plugins.  Research more on Google that the plugin take a lot of resources, stay away from “related posts” plugin on shared hosting (Except if you are on VPS or dedicated).

2. Removed all UNUSED plugins inside wp-content/plugins.  Do not keep unused and non active plugins folder exist.

3. Use caching plugins for wordpress like wp-cache, best one is “wp-supercache” wordpress plugin.  Man, this is very important and your blog will far more faster. Be careful, your hosting provider might not support the modules needed a lot by wp-supercache plugin.  You can still use wp-cache plugin by the way.  Thank GOD Webhostingpad allow me to use wp-supercache.

4. I also remove “popularity contest plugin”.  I just guess that this may cause CPU usage problem.  Because anything that is too much calculating on “grabbing data from database”, will in result taking the provider’s server CPU resources.  Why don’t use free service to get better result in Feedjit?

5. Be careful on ads, too many ads can also cause CPU problem.  I removed up to 3 ads scripts (peel up javascript ads, amazon widget, gameduell widget).  Be careful on some Amazon widget.

6. Last but not least, upgrade your wordpress whenever there is a NEW VERSION.

With all of these, this blog loading is much more faster and FASTER !!  As we are only small blogs, I am sure that many users will not ready yet for VPS or dedicated servers, I am sure that no one will move to that plan, as the blog is still in very small traffic.  Unless we are having in thousands visitors a day and….of course thousands of $$$  a day, a dedicated server will never a problem for me !!

Hope this helps !!