Well I’m still trying to figure out my web hosting CPU resource over usage problems. I’ve got a lot of great suggestions from people on forums and via comments on my sites.
One person asked if I’m using WP-Cache on my wordpress blogs and the answer is yes. I’ve been using it since last Friday and I’ve still been getting messages from my web host saying that my cpu resource usage is too high.
This is depressing!
If I ever figure out what caused the problem I’ll be sure to write about it on my sites so that others might be able to get themselves out of this mess a little quicker than I’ve managed.
Well, I’m not out of the mess yet.
I’ve finished updating everything I can think of including a joomla installation that runs one of my other sites. I think the Joomla CMS might be one of the causes of the problem. I guess I’ll find out later today when I hear from my web host. I hope that the resources are back to normal.
I wrote out more details of how I’m using the servers on my other tech blog WebStyle if you’d care to read that post. Perhaps those of you that have been through this before or know a little something about this kind of problem could read that post and offer a few suggestions? I’d really appreciate it if you would.
Also, just in case I do end up having to move to a Virtual Private Server … how difficult is that to work with? I’m pretty good about figuring out stuff but I’d like to know if I’m going to end up with a VPS headache before I make my decision to move off shared hosting.
Like I just said – how do I fix the permalink structure if I’m hosting two blogs on one hosting account? If you can ask your questions twice, can I too? 🙂
You seem to be managing several blogs. How do you juggle them, especially once they start getting readers that will have expectations as far as volume and quality of posts?
have you optimized your sql databases?
Mark I’m not really sure. Do you have one blog in the root of the domain and the other in a directory? for example this blog thewebfiles.com is in the root of the directory, and if I were to have another blog on this domain say a photoblog it would probably be located at thewebfiles.com/photo or else I’d create a proper subdomain and it would be photo.thewebfiles.com.
Whatever way you’ve got it set up I’m still not sure how to answer your question because I’ve never run in to something quite like your permalink problem.
Have you tried manually re-installing both of your blogs? By this I mean going to wordpress.org and looking at the instructions as to what files and folders to delete and which files and folders to keep when you are doing an upgrade and then doing it manually (with a full back up, and plugins turned off first of course). Perhaps a complete re-installation would help?
Emily I’m not sure if you are coming to my site from one of the social network sites like blogcatalog or mybloglog or if you are just aware that I have a lot of blogs. I just wanted to clarify that if you are coming from one of the places I’ve named, or even technorati I have two of my husbands sites listed on my account.
I’m the one who does most of the site promotion work so it doesn’t make sense for him to have a separate account on those sites.
So that makes it look like I have slightly more blogs that I really do.
I have 7 active blogs, 1 community blog on a website that I run and another big website, plus I have 6 blogs that I’ve just started that I haven’t promoted yet. Five of new blogs will be the home of some of the current active blogs that are in directories on my main domain – so the increase in sites isn’t a permanent thing.
How to I manage? Not all that well lately. I used to be able to write in each of my blogs daily but most of the time I write in perhaps four of them daily and the others every second or third day.
I’m off work due to illness so I have more time than most people to maintain all these sites.
I don’t post just for the sake of posting. I try to post when I really have something to say or some knowledge to pass on. So even if I don’t write in some of the blogs daily hopefully the content is worth reading.
Are you getting into a multi-blog situation yourself?
If you are, one thing that I’ve found helpful is to write a few posts when I’m in the mood to write and save the extras as drafts. Then I can set up the drafts to post automatically over a few days or use them as I need them. It takes a bit of the pressure off if you are able to do that.
Comments – I try to answer all the comments on my busiest blogs via email or on the blogs themselves – but sometimes there’s a day or two delay. The less busy blogs like this one … I don’t always answer the comments. If the comments have questions I answer, if they don’t – it depends on my mood, what they said or how much time I have on my hands.
Whether I answers comments or not I do try to gear my posts a bit towards what my readers are asking about in the comments. for example, now that you’ve asked this question I might make a post that discusses how I manage multiple blogs.
Kevin, I’m not sure how to go about optimizing my MySQL databases. Do you have a tip for me or perhaps a good link to an article where I could read up on this?
My databases are probably the only thing that I haven’t looked at yet!
I’ve just finished creating or updating robots.txt files for all my blogs/domains and I’ve removed the xmlrpc.php from my blogs because it was suggested to me that even though I’ve upgraded to the latest WP there still might be a bit of a security problem with xmlrpc and since it’s not a necessary file since I don’t use third party blogging software to create posts I don’t need it.
I’ve just finished doing those last two things and I’m hoping that it makes a difference. Other than perhaps optimizing my SQL databases as you are suggesting I have no other idea what to do!
There’s a chance that it’s just traffic that’s causing this problem or that it’s part of the problem. I have a lot of domains and websites in my account and one website and four blogs are very well trafficked so perhaps that’s one of the problems. I don’t think it should be the main problem but it could be part of it.
Anyway, I’m all ears if you have any ideas! Thanks for your comment. 🙂