Site News: Down Time

So if you are a regular visitor here at RealityTVFan.org you have probably noticed the site has been down several times over the last few days – unfortunately I can’t promise it won’t be down again either.

The basic gist without boring you is that my webhost keep pulling the plug claiming I am causing high server load and trying to make me purchase a dedicated server. A dedicated server costs twice the amount I pay per year currently for one month – ouch.

The problem is this doesn’t make sense to me as I can’t see why there would suddenly be such a huge issue – traffic levels are the same as they have been for several months now and I have not added any new features or the like in the last few days that would cause such a dramatic change.

I am a bit at a loss at what to do. If I believed the site had outgrown shared hosting and I needed to pay for a dedicated server I would find a way to do it, but I am not willing or able to throw away $150 a month when I don’t believe it’s necessary.

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If there are any people out there that can offer advice it would be appreciated. Do you have any suggestions on how I can monitor my own CPU usage (cpanel) or suggest tools and the like to help me determine what is causing the high load even though traffic has not increased. I run wordpress on the site and already have wp-super-cache installed. Also if any one can suggest a hosting company that offers more affordable VPN/Dedicated servers it’d be much appreciated.

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So, if you notice some things looking strange don’t panic it’s just me tweaking things trying to work out what’s going on, and if you notice us down again also don’t panic – I am not sure what the solution is yet, but RealityTVFan.org isn’t going any where

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