Ressources when a WP Site is not visited

  • Dear All,

    I’m considering setting up several independant small WP web sites on a single server, hosting both web and db.

    Therefore, 10 to 20 installation of WordPress will be running at the sametime on the server.

    However, most of these sites will have very limited activity, say about 5 visits a day at max.

    My question is the following : does a WP installation use ressources as long as the site is not visited ? Does it use RAM or CPU when the site is “idle” ?

    By the way, if there’s a tool / way to evaluate the current ressources used by a WP site, I would be very interested.

    Thanks a log in advance,

    Mattoo

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  • That depends on your configuration and how you call php. As a rule not, if you are using mod_php in Apache, however, if you are using something like php-fpm (running php as a process) it would consume memory.

    THat said with only 5 visits a day mod_php would be the way to go, its slower than other methods of executing php, but that does not matter with your proposed traffic.

    You can see how much memory and cpu is being used by your site using standard unix command-line tools like free, top and ps.

    The scenario you describe would happily run on any of the low cost shared hosting from all of the hosts on hosting page, as well as from many not listed there – in fact low sporadic traffic is exactly what works well on a shared host.

    Thread Starter wp_mattoo

    (@mattoo64)

    hi Max,

    thanks a lot for your detailled answer, I’ll take this into account.

    Thanks also for the unix reminder, I’ll ssh’ it ??

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