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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 05:25 PM

  I have been getting the following from my new web host since Friday...
  
  Your site has been identified as exceeding the allotted CPU cycles per your current hosting plan.
  
  To accommodate the increased CPU cycles requirement, we are now serving your site using our special pool of servers reserved for such spikes. If this spike in CPU cycles continues for an extended period, your site may encounter an error.
  
  Your current resource utilization was recorded at: 22 %.
  
  The utilization has been hovering at between 19% and 25%. According to their help site...
  
  Resource utilization is impacted by several factors such as:
  
  Increased traffic to your site (excluding static websites).
  Sometimes the introduction of a new script on your site.
  
  I had installed Dizkus and Bad Behaviour but I disabled and deleted them both but there has been no change. Is there any way to figure out what's causing it? I have used Medicula to clean up the database.
  
  Now I do have the option of upgrading my plan with my host so that's always a possibility.
  
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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 11:11 PM

  Looking at your site I would say, all those uncached blocks at the home page are most likely the reason (News and Postcalender). Please check your caching settings in Admin/pnRender and Admin/Theme, and also consider to reduce the amount of blocks you use. Also, check your OpenX caching settings.
  Greetings,
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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 07:20 AM

  I've set the cache to 3600 seconds in both PNRender and Themes Manager. I also have "Enable CSS/JS combination" and "Use 'trimwhitespace' output filter" enabled in Themes Manager.
  What about some of the options in PNRender? For example, I don't have "Embed template information within comments inside the source code of pages" enabled or any of the Compilation Settings.
  In OpenX, I changed the Banner Delivery Cache Settings to 3600 seconds as well. Under Banner Delivery Cache Store Type have the options of choosing "file based cache" or "Memcached".
  
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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 08:48 AM

  Nope. It's still running too high I guess. I just got an e-mail saying that it was running at 19%. I'm also getting a "nocache" message under the title of the article. I have enabled both Compilation Settings so we'll see what happens.
  
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• dks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 04:08 PM

  I'm guessing, but it might be all those OpenX javascripts. When I was looking for a banner manager I saw that OpenX had a way to ease server load by doing all its business with one call.
  I ended up not going with OpenX BTW, I use Robert Gasch's banner module that's native to Zikula. It's currently working on KamloopsCity.com

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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 05:24 PM

  I found the information on how to do the single call and we'll see how that works.
  
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• AllKnightAccess
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 08:11 PM

  OpenX also offer a free hosted solution, so you don't need to have the files on your own server.
  
  http://www.openx.org/ad-server

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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 09:23 PM

  A very good idea that I will look into. Thanks
  
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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 08, 2010 - 09:26 PM

  So moving the ads to OpenX's servers apparently had no effect. I'm still getting messages from my host saying that the resource utilization is too high.
  I did figure out what was causing the nocache message to appear. When I disabled the cache in PnRender and cleared the cache it went away.
  So currently, under PnRender, I don't have anything enabled. Under Themes > Settings, caching is enabed and set at 3600 seconds. I "Enable JS/CSS combination" enabled but not "Use compression" or "minify CSS". I also enabled "Use 'trimwhitespace' output filter".
  I have 6 blocks (7 if you count News in the centre column) enabled, 3 of which are menus.
  Any other suggestions as to what I could do to reduce my resource usage?
  
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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 09, 2010 - 10:22 AM

  OK, this is funny/bizarre... I get e-mails from my web host automatically every two hours if the resource utilization on my site is too high. I leave the site alone and don't post anything and I don't get any e-mails for 6 hours or so. I post one article and I get an e-mail saying the resource utilization is too high again.
  Just out of curiosity, would drop down menus help reduce the resource utilization on my site? I was thinking about doing that anyway.
  
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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 09, 2010 - 09:55 PM

  Your settings are fine. Can you give us some numbers about the traffic you receive, and also about the ressource limits your host is putting on you? This might help us to stop guessing, and find solutions.
  Greetings,
  Chris
  
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• AllKnightAccess
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 01:03 AM

  Out of curiosity, who is your web host?

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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 06:05 AM

  I'm using NetFirms and over the past week I had an average of about about 1000 total visitors/day, about 600 unique visitors/day, and Bandwidth usage of 2,367.79 MB.
  
  For my hosting plan, I have the "Business" plan and the Resource Limits (% of CPU) is 18%. So I'm just barely exceeding the limit for my plan. With my hosting plan I have 300GB of storage and 3000GB bandwidth.
  
  The next plan us is the "Enterprise 1" plan which has the limit set at 50% but I'd like to hold off upgrading my plan, simply because it costs more.
  
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• slam
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 09:46 PM

  A Zikula site like yours, with the traffic you have, should have no problem at all with CPU usage on a serious host in the $ 10.00 price range. I think the "problem" is mostly the cluster solution your hoster is using, together with strange CPU restrictions he has put there.
  
  Well, looks like you already hit the CPU limits of your hosting plan, and will hit the Bandwith limit shortly, too. It seems that your hoster does not offer anything between "business" and "enterprise 1", which will cost $ 50.00 instead of the $ 10.00 you pay now. So, if there is no plan between, I would consider a switch to another host.
  
  Greetings,
  Chris
  
  
  
  Edited by slam on Oct 11, 2010 - 10:47 AM.
  
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• eledril
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 09:50 PM

  I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I'll talk to my host and see if we can come up with a solution that puts me somewhere in between.
  
  Thanks for all your help everyone
  
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  NorthumberlandView.ca
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