After suffering for two months at the hands of two different Web Hosting providers I finally settled with HostGator, everything seemed great until the Internal Server Error – 500 problem surfaced again.
I promptly contacted HostGator 24X7 Live Chat Support and explained my problem, after an hour or so. I was finally able to resolve my problem and I also made a screencast out the same so that readers of ProgrammingKid who also happen to use wordpress may benefit from what I have gained.
Spikes in Traffic are not uncommon specially if you’r site/blog gains its 15 minutes of fame on any popular social bookmarking website example Digg. Do you know what will happen to your Blog? Will the server crumble against the load or survive?
The following screencast will allow you to test your readiness.
Can your Blog handle Increase in Traffic?
Running Time : 5 Minutes 44 Sec
Size: 15 MB
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I’ll also write a post on how to tackle this problem by using a caching plugin in WordPress. So stay tuned.
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Nice experimentation and screencast Vaibhav.
This way one can easily determine how good his host is. Thanks for sharing such a useful tip
Thanks Deepak. Wait for the next part of the same.
Nice experimentation and screencast Vaibhav.
This way one can easily determine how good his host is. Thanks for sharing such a useful tip
Thanks Deepak. Wait for the next part of the same.
I think Wordpress Cache plugin will be helpful for this cause! Anyways, this is my first visit and I am loving the content here!
Yes, WP-Super Cache plugin helps in this case. Its very essential plugin for Wordpress Blogs. I am glad you liked ProgrammingKid.
I think Wordpress Cache plugin will be helpful for this cause! Anyways, this is my first visit and I am loving the content here!
Yes, WP-Super Cache plugin helps in this case. Its very essential plugin for Wordpress Blogs. I am glad you liked ProgrammingKid.
LOL. I got 60/60 OK. I use one of the most cheapest webhosting, and my blog is ready to take on huge traffic spikes!
BTW, I would suggest the combination of hyper-cache and DB cache. Just couldn’t get super-cache to work properly.
Super-Cache is the easiest to setup for most people so thats the basic caching module required. DB caching is also a good idea.
LOL. I got 60/60 OK. I use one of the most cheapest webhosting, and my blog is ready to take on huge traffic spikes!
BTW, I would suggest the combination of hyper-cache and DB cache. Just couldn’t get super-cache to work properly.
Super-Cache is the easiest to setup for most people so thats the basic caching module required. DB caching is also a good idea.
There is so much that I can do to handle things upto VPS levels (when it gets real geeky) but damn I don’t have that much traffic at the moment. I hope I will have it soon.
There is so much that I can do to handle things upto VPS levels (when it gets real geeky) but damn I don’t have that much traffic at the moment. I hope I will have it soon.