I upgraded WordPress at Othermakes.net yesterday and started getting a server error when accessing the WordPress Dashboard. All the regular posts and pages were fine. To fix this I opened up the file “error_log” in the root directory of the site. You can access that using an FTP client such as FileZilla or maybe the
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It appears I have exceeded the capacity of a budget account on dreamhost. I run a good number of wordpress blogs and SMF forums there. All are plagued by random and regular Internal Server Errors. I considered Dreamhost VPS but don’t want to gamble on the unknown cost. Also, there is no turning back to
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I’m sure you probably installed google analytics on your website. You transform all the ebay, amazon, etc links people post in your forums with a similar javascript mod from Viglink. After dropping the following code… …in your master template (index.template.php for an SMF forum) each time someone clicks on a link that leads them off
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I run a number of SMF forums. The largest one, korider.com is hosted on dreamhost shared hosting. Korider.com has about 3500 users, 800 visits per day and 8000 page views per day. I have TinyPortal running and a few other common mods.
Users were complaining of irratic performance. I implemented the following performance tuning fixes to my SMF site and the results were great. I will update as soon as I find out when the site slows down again.
Please comment if you have any other tips or numbers when your site slowed down on shared hosting.
