Does your blog have lot of Digg or Stumble Upon traffic hits? And your web hosting cannot take that hits and crash. Fear no more. WP Super Cache WordPress plugin comes to rescue.

HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling)

Some said that HostMonster CPU Limiting Factors (Throttling) data is not accurate. I tried WP Super Cache for 1 day. It does reduce CPU usage a little bit but not much. Why? My blogs don’t have many hits from SU and Digg. So far, I only got around 80 cache pages. Let’s monitor when I get more traffic hits.

Download WordPress plugin ~ WP Super Cache here.

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Do you still need to manage your web hosting? Well, I don’t. After dump the poor support team ~ SmartTeam hosting, I switched to HostMonster. During SmartTeam hosting, I need to call their support team to tell them that my website database was down. And they did not even know. Come on, what is managed web hosting?

Using HostMonster… I can spend my time focus on writing better articles rather than spending time to call up support team. And I just noticed that my blogs’ bandwidth usage passed 100GB per month. Wow… That is lot of traffic there.

September 2009 bandwidth usage

3 of my main blogs (JayceOoi.com, spBlogger.com and PrettyGirl2u.com) hosted in 1 HostMonster account. Why I prefer HostMonster managed web hosting?

• Web Hosting Space – Unlimited
• Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
• Gigs of Site Transfer – Unlimited

These are the top 3 priority that I need. And it is only USD 5.95 per month ~ discount now. Isn’t that great? By the way, don’t bother to find free web hosting. I don’t think that free lunch will give such features.

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Website loading speed is very important. Nobody likes to wait long for a website to load. Therefore, a good hosting is a must. And you need to have supportive team from them too. Else it will take even longer time if your hosting have problem.

My friends told me that my blog was slow during loading. I tested myself and discovered the same issue ~ slowness like “waiting for www.jayceooi.com” for 10 to 20 seconds. Then the website started to load. How to improve the loading time then? Check your hosting server status is the first time that you need to do.

Server Status

As you can see, there is alert on server load ~ Box under heavy load — you may experience degraded system performance. You need to contact support team if you continue seeing this message. Else your website will be as slow as turtle.

Service Status

Another thing to check is the service status. All of the services should be okay most of the time. A good hosting will rectify any issue occurs without us inform them. However, I did face problem with my previous hosting company. I need to contact them to bring up the SQL server myself. And they don’t even know that that SQL server was down. What a joke… By the way, my hosting support team solved the issue before I report it.

Finally, be sure that you select a good web hosting like I did. I am using HostMonster. How about you?

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226 Output truncated to 2000 matches… This was what I got when I was trying to backup my blogs files before upgrade to WordPress 2.8. I have a folder that contains more than 2000 files. And the HostMonster hosting that I am using seem does not allow me to download all the file that I want. So I search ‘226 Output truncated to 2000 matches hostmonster’ at Google. Hopefully, I can find a way to solve it.

Here is the solution that I found…

Use the backup feature in cPanel. It will gzip your specified directory and files into a single file, and you can download everything in a compressed format.

There seem like a server limitation to allow 2000 files upload/download only. Besides using the backup feature in cPanel, any other way to fix it? I failed to download the backup due to large backup file size (around 1 GB) and slow Streamyx Internet connection speed.

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