Comments on: Is Your Web Host Throttling Your Blog?

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By: Flash Games

Flash Games — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:39:48 +0000

Have you ever thought that the hosting companies throttle larger sites in hopes to get you to upgrade to one of their VPS solutions which cost 20x a shared hosting?

By: Web Hosting LI

Web Hosting LI — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:39:30 +0000

Optimize your images and lower the mySQL and HTML calls by disabling unnecessary plug-ins and using CDN's… That'll reduce the load on the server.

By: farmasikozmetik

farmasikozmetik — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:44:15 +0000

Great article Thanks

By: Sharon On The Web – March 2010 Update

Sharon On The Web – March 2010 Update — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:11:08 +0000

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By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:43:48 +0000

Yes, that's probably what will happen with me too; I'd be interested to hear who you went with in the end.

By: CindaB

CindaB — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:38:39 +0000

Update:

I finally got fed up with the lack of factual info from InMotion and began shopping around, stacking the specs of their VPS plan against those of their competitors. Turns out that two of the competitors looked over my current numbers, diagnosed the problem (it’s a combination of RAM and traffic, in my case), then extended them several months out to predict where my growth would be. Turns out, THAT’S what I really need to be focused on.

Which is a lot more info and assistance than InMotion gave me.

Comparing apples to apples (focused on RAM, bandwidth, and CPU usage), I can now shop around. Turns out, for the same money, I might trade off a bit in disk space that I don’t use/need, but get a lot more in the areas that I DO need. Their push to get me into a more expensive package worked…but it won’t be one of theirs. Ironic, hmmm?

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:02:12 +0000

I wish I could – I had the same experience.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:01:18 +0000

Thanks, have tried some of those. I can't help feeling that it's a sneaky move to shift us to a plan that generates more income for the host. On the other account, all the sites are low traffic, so there's no excuse for throttling there, yet it's happening.

By: hosting

hosting — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:50:40 +0000

1. The first suggestions was to reduce running processes which I should have been able to find in Cpanel via a button under the CPU throttling section. I opened it and found nothing running. Zero. Zilch.

Can you explain ?

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:04:24 +0000

Some of my suggestion would be

1: Switch to some simple theme

2. Remove unnecessary plugins

3. Install Super cache plugin

Optimize Database

Delete Post revisions…

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:18:50 +0000

I suppose that's true, Mark. I only have two sites with them (on this account) and the other one is so low traffic it doesn't even count. I am actively looking for new hosting.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:33:14 +0000

Hey, I have been throttled by Blue Host!

I scaled back all my plugins to just the ones that I like. I think what is happening is that so many people don't just use 1 website.

A lot of us have dozens. We love plugins and now we are zapping their bandwidth.

I am thinking of opening an account with hostgator and see what happens running the same style of website with the same plugins.

I use WordPress Super Cache too. I had Blue Host optimize my website too.

I like the customer service at Blue Host. However, I am not loyal to them if they are going to continue to throttle me. It's gonna be adios for me!

I am removing all social book marking plugins like twitter tools, socialize, only wired, etc.

By: Kharim

Kharim — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:53 +0000

Great post. I like the post image, made me laugh

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:18:39 +0000

I'm glad Bluehost is working well for you, Janice. I'm surprised that I'm having so many problems, as they've been very good in the past.