Bluehost throttling

  • My site is inaccessible at various times of the day, especially at night. I get different answers from Bluehost but it seems they are throttling my site. I get about 1500 page views per day so it’s not heavily trafficked. I use the latest versions of WP and Atahualpa and supercache.

    Does anyone else experience this?

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  • Could the problem be another site on the same server that is consuming all available resources/ Have you asked if your site could be moved to another server?

    A plugin or something similar which is running on your site may be causing your site to load slowly or have too many heavy queries, or something like that. Regardless of how you decide to handle things, it would be best to review your site content and see what you can do to make your site run as smoothly as possible.

    The following article helps a great deal with WordPress optimization: https://wordpress.shadowlantern.com/2009/01/reducing-cpu/

    @ Econophile

    I host a dozen sites with Bluehost with 25,000 views a day and have experienced the same problems in the past but recently resolved it. Last week, my site was being throttled 2.5 hours a day, now the throttling is down to 50 seconds a day.

    That comes from two major changes, I moved the RSS feed off the site and redirected it (the RSS feed isn’t cached and accounted for most of my CPU usage). https://helpfulcoder.com/38/offload-or-cache-your-wordpress-feed-for-maximum-performance/ Then I also updated the Super Cache settings to preload my content once a day https://thisismyurl.com/81/gain-valuable-seo-power-with-caching/ which dropped my CPU usage to almost nothing across the sites.

    Just a quick note to say that since I made these changes on Bluehost over a month again, my sites have been running about about 5 minutes a day of throttling vs. 150 minutes a day before making the changes and that’s been consistent over the time.

    The biggest help to my CPU savings was moving the RSS feed as described above.

    @christopher Ross,
    Thanks for your valuable posts!
    How much throttling have you experienced the last two months?

    Is there any better web hosting in the same price class?

    Thanks!

    Sorry, double post.

    AndersBranderud, a couple months back I was averaging five hours a day of throttled access but it was my own fault, I had 20,000 RSS requests an hour. By default, WordPress doesn’t cache your RSS feed and I didn’t consider that a major issue until it was.

    I moved my RSS feeds to Feedburner, optimized my themes and ran better plugins for caching, I’m down to around 3 minutes an hour of throttling during peak hours and none at all in off time.

    I would say however that even those three minutes an hour (for four hours a day) are my own fault, I run some automation scripts to third party API’s that eat up most of my processor.

    Bluehost does not have any help available when CPU usage exceeds a threshold.

    These excellent articles and advice on THROTTLING should be part and parcel of www.remarpro.com and Bluehost FAQs.

    https://wordpress.shadowlantern.com/2009/01/reducing-cpu/

    Move RSS to Feedburner
    https://helpfulcoder.com/38/offload-or-cache-your-wordpress-feed-for-maximum-performance/

    Update the Super Cache settings to preload content once a day https://thisismyurl.com/81/gain-valuable-seo-power-with-caching/

    Chris: Which Supercache plug-in did you use. Any advice. Lacking any information in this department I am going to use the first one available which is called “WP Supercache”.

    Any ideas on how to monitor “Throttling”. You seem to know exactly how much you are being throttled. How do you monitor that?

    @moinansari
    It looks like Christopher is using WP Super Cache.

    Also, straight from his own website are details regarding his BlueHost configuration:

    https://thisismyurl.com/90/hosting-wordpress-with-bluehost/

    (That actually came up from a google search for ‘bluehost supercache’ — nice ranking on this topic Christopher!)

    Regarding throttling, BlueHost has a tool in their cPanel which which will tell you in realtime exactly how much you’re being throttled and display a throttling history as well as direct you to the culprit process(es).

    This is the ‘CPU THROTTLING’ tool in the ‘Logs’ area of your BlueHost cPanel.

    BlueHost has more information detailed about this in their knowledge base:

    https://helpdesk.bluehost.com/index.php/kb/article/564

    Hope this helps. ??

    Hey guys, I’ve tried both SuperCache (which I personally love and recommend for people) as well as W3 which I’m currently using and find fantastic. WP and Bluehost work great together but like a classic muscle car it’s worth taking a few minutes to work out how to get the best out of it.

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