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[pinkjaxx Friend pinkjaxxJoin date: May 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 6]

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Have a brand new JA Tiris install on my website, have spent the last six days trying to get to grips with Joomla and have been adding content, in the last 24 hours I have put the site live, despite having a few loose ends to tie up.

The site is hosted with UK2.net on a shared, physical server – and I have been continually finding my server side performance is being throttled by them due to overshooting my CPU allocation. This obviously affects a lot of things – namely the painfully slow process of amending content via the backend, and slow user experience in terms of page delivery.

I find it impossible to believe this is due to load – as said the site hasn’t been live for more than 24 hours and besides that – its never been a busy site – 100 page serves a day if you are lucky in its previous incarnation as a Concrete 5 site.

I’ve been speaking with the webhosts who are unsurprisingly trying to push me towards VPS – but I am currently resisting this as I think its a case of throwing hardware at a software problem – that and cost factors in as well.

Looking at my cpanel statistics, you can see peaks of CPU demand, which seems inconsistent with my own usage patterns – so I am starting to think that the issue lies with a bad component or extension? I’ve tried to lighten things up by ditching components I have no interest in but to no avail.

Cpanel snapshot, seven day graph – installation was done on Monday of this week

Can anyone offer any assistance?

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Hello pinkjaxx,

You can try some following suggestions:
1. I switched on both cache (Joomla + Tiris template). If you are anxious about caching the frontend, use the cache cleaner from the nonumber.nl. Insisting on “no-caching” idea sometimes roots in bad soil.

2. Check how many foreign site is referred from your content (DB query) it could be a surprise (i.e. pics)

3. Reconsider the usage of the “important” plugins and modules, sometimes switching them off is better (i.e. google ajax library and so)

4. Check the log in the cpanel it tells a lot (if it is not empty)

5. Server settings and a good htaccess could help also.

6. Your articles need to be archived regularly (choose a number of days/weeks to keep “current” or unarchived) so that upon a homepage hit the template will be quicker. If you do not establish and maintain an archive, the hompage when hit will search through the enitre database (of current/published articles) looking for those that are “featured articles” to populate the first top left module on the page.

Hope these can help.

Best regards.

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Thanks Stork

Could you elaborate more on points 3 and 5 please? For example how do i find out which plugins and modules aren’t actually being used so that I could disable them? And what server settings can I deploy? Apache compression was switched off so I’ve enabled this to see if this helps.

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<em>@pinkjaxx 328229 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks Stork

Could you elaborate more on points 3 and 5 please? For example how do i find out which plugins and modules aren’t actually being used so that I could disable them? And what server settings can I deploy? Apache compression was switched off so I’ve enabled this to see if this helps.</blockquote>
Hello pinkjaxx,

You can use link http://www.your-domain.com/index.php?tp=1 to find out which module positions are being using in your template. Then go to Modules Manager and filter modules by their positions.

Regards.

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Thanks again Stork.

I’ve managed to unpublish a number of items (namely the forum and news feed related items) and this appears to have had a positive effect on average and max CPU usage which is what the webhosts are getting upset about.

Time will tell whether or not I can continue to stay on shared hosting or if I will need to pay for my own VPS – but my CPU Usage appears to peak at 15-20% rather than 100% which certainly reads better!

Thanks for your help – will mark as resolved in the next day or two if the problems don’t flare up again.

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