I am still experiencing WordPress CPU load issues. My hosts says that wp-cron is the culprit and that plugins are to blame. I am not sold on this 100%. I did not start seeing these slow downs on my sites until I started using Cron jobs to automatically create posts. I think the cron jobs are to blame. The crons all go off every 15 minutes. If I visit one of my sites on the 15 minute mark I can tell something was not right.
My host asked me to load wp-super-cache on 2 more domains. I did this. Actually I like how fast the sites load after the page is cached. They asked me to look over my plugins and take action. Well I am not really sure what to do there. I don’t really have any plugins that I can drop. They all are required for my sites to function. I voluntarily decided to drop my cron jobs. I just decided to drop them all on all my sites. I did that tonight and I can already tell a difference in my sites.
So my sites will survive for a while without cron posts. I still have the related searches API that gets me lots of longtails. I am going back to the drawing board for some new ideas this month. I want to make things run smooth and efficient for my host and users as well as make my sites easily manageable for me.
As I am writing this I just got the email back from my host that the 2 domains in question today have been re-instated. This was the 3rd time this happened in the last 2 weeks. I am hoping to have put an end to it by removing the cron jobs today. Only time will tell.
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Why not just seperate the sites up. Meaning, have multiple hosting accounts? Or, go with a dedicated server? I’ve thought about doing this. I currently have 4 accounts. I’m thinking that the limit will be somewhere between 25-30 sites per account.
Yeah I know. I just never got around to doing that. I have a reseller account with hostgator. I can setup hosting accounts and charge others any ammount I want. I had about 4 people at one time paying me 4.95 per month via a PayPal subscription. The latest about a year and then they left the domains die and cancelled their hosting subscription with me. I guess it is about time I move to a different type of account. It just seems like a hassle though.