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How Many Visitors Do You Get & Hosting Solutions (CPU Exceed)

Blackjackskanz Member
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I am curious how many visitors folks get on shared hosting without issues? And what was the general traffic level that forced others to move to a VPS or a dedicated server. Also any feedback on either because I have read some horror stories about VPS. Right now I am getting daily 3-4000 visitors, 15k-22k pages views with a WP blog/gallery. I know my current issues can be fixed with more optimization but I am also trying to roadmap when I will need to upgrade.

Right now I am having some CPU exceed issues (about once a day) with my blog/gallery on Bluehost. I think my immediate issues can fixed with code changes (already using WP-cache). From my CPU Exceed logs it appears the Gallery is the primary cause. My immediate fixes I am looking at are

1) Install ZenPhoto with Tumblr’s cache plugins (theme adjusted to match WP blog).
2) Rebuild my gallery with static code.

I use my blog for all comments, etc so my gallery will always be a simple thumbnail that when clicked goes directly to the full image. But I love the idea of the Search function of ZenPhoto and of course the ease of changing the theme/album order vs. static code.

I am curious, how much extra leg room or visitors per day are other people getting with their galleries on shared hosting without issues?

Comments

  • micaros Member
    I've just installed ZenPhoto on my Bluehost hosted site (after looking at doing so for well over a year, and having played around lots on my local machine). With two galleries of photos (about 70 photos each, original photos are about 1.5MB each) I am finding it impossible to do almost anything (with just myself accessing the site) without getting CPU exceed errors at every turn. Not much help, but it is driving me nuts (not meaning to hijack your thread with my grumps)!
  • sbillard Member
    Your images are quite large for a WEB album. Rescaleing them to viewable size is what is costing you your CPU cycles. Do you really need that size image? If not, scale them down to nominal WEB size. The default size displayed by zenphoto is about 600x400.
  • Blackjackskanz Member
    Micaros, I moved hosts. I was on Bluehost as well. My images were smaller than yours avg. between 300kb - 1mb. Yes, building thumbnails online with any of the gallery software packages (I have tried a few) is pretty much asking for an exceed in a shared environment. Here is what I would do if I were you.

    That said, when my site was getting smaller traffic I was able to build up to 100 thumbnails at a time for a gallery of just shy of 200 on Bluehost without any issues. I suspect it is the size of your images. Once yoursite starts getting popular just forget about trying to build them online because it will just lead to a CPU exceed and Bluehost will shut you down for 5 minutes.

    At point you either will have to build them with Photoshop or something else or you could do a local install of ZenPhoto to build your thumbnails and then upload them. But once I got to 2000 plus viistors a day, I couldn't build thumbnails on line without risking a crash.

    Personally I think buildng thumbnails is better manually because they will always look better and be better optimized anyway.
  • trisweb Administrator
    Everything Blackjackskanz said is right on target, any image processing on a shared server is going to be more CPU intensive than they like.

    As a general rule, use smaller base images (resize them before uploading) and things should be okay. On bluehost/dreamhost etc. I'd keep them at or below 800x600, or better yet, resize them to the size they'll be displayed at in your theme.
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