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user-inactivated  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can anyone help me with some web server issues I'm having?

Can you access your server with SSH?





Rod  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And this is where you lost me. I don't know what that means... I have cPanel... would that be in there? Maybe I'm not that literate, sorry.

MadEmperorYuri  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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Rod  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, so here are my resources and where I'm at right now. It doesn't seem to be a consistent problem, apparently CPU Usage and Memory Usage is spiking sometimes, which triggers the warnings.

I am running 7 Wordpress sites on that, with a combined 4,200 hits per month (that's what the GoDaddy rep said). Which seems like very little.

I talked to GoDaddy, the dude had me click on some PHP optimization options and compression, but said Wordpress has become very resource intensive and I should consider upgrading (that sounded like a sales pitch for the sake of it).

I will now check out the Sucuri Scanner plugin, thank you!

Here are the stats for the 7 sites:

http://imgur.com/a/FmSPp

Mhmmm, according to those stats I guess the 4,200 hits were daily.

Edit: Ok, I just realized I'm getting a ton of referral spam... can that be an issue? Now on to blocking it.

Rod  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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psudo  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This seems the most likely scenerio to me, especially since they're relatively low traffic WordPress sites. I can't imagine that would overload even the most basic of paid hosting.

user-inactivated  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, I'm gonna say no. SSH is a command line for the server in the most basic sense. How many plugins do you have on Wordpress?

Rod  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

9 plugins total on the site I'm most concerned about, but I'd need to check the others. Could that be an issue? The total amount of plugins or one rogue plugin ruining everything?

MadEmperorYuri  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe, it depends on what you're running tbh. I'd look at seeing if support can see the processes on your VM.

Rod  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gotcha, alright then, people at customer support for GoDaddy are super nice but they haven't been quite helpful in the past. Thanks again for your time.

user-inactivated  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, GoDaddy is kinda bad in regards to support. however, I'd just check and if PHP is the top process or MySQL it might be wordpress.