How to Reduce Server Load

Whreviews.com explains the meaning of server load thus:

“… basically the server load is a number. This number is usually under the x.xx format and can have values starting from 0.00. It expresses how may processes are waiting in the queue to access the processor(s). Of course, this is calculated for a certain period of time and of course, the smaller the number, the better. A high number is often associated with a decrease in the performance of the server.

You can usually find the server load value in the control panel associated with your web hosting account under “Server Status”. There you’ll find listed a server load value. If you refresh the page, you’ll notice that the value changes almost every time. That’s because it’s an instantly calculated value. However, one can notice over a period of time which are the usual values of the server load.

…if the server load is around 4.00 24/7 and we’re talking about a server with a single processor, I would suspect something is wrong: overselling or overloading. In that case, just to make sure I would never face serious problems, I would ask my host to do something about the server load or move my website to a server with a lower server load. If the response I get does not please me, I will consider looking for a new host.”

In some international webhosting services like Hostgator, if you are using a shared-hosting package and the server load occupied 25 percent of CPU usage, you have crossed the boundaries and it’ll be warned and finally suspended if not disabling the ones that causes the high server load. In wordpress-powered blog, it usually means disabling plugins.

If you are warned of high server load by your host provider, they usually will tell you what cause the problem and ask you to disable it.

If they don’t tell you, however, here how to reduce server load on wordpress-powered blog

First, deaktivate / disable Super-cache plugins

Second, deactivate / disable Google XML sitemap generator plugins

Third, disable / deactive Related Post plugins

Fourth, if you have search term tagging plugins, diactivate it as well.

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This entry was posted on September 11, 2009 at September 11, 2009 and is filed under Blogger Indonesia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

akhlis
September 11, 2009 at 8:03 am

so, the bottomline’s the less number of plugins installed on our web page, the shorter its loading time will be??
But, hang on a sec, what’s plugin? is widget a type of plugin,too?
What about us, the Blogger-based bloggers? What can we do about it?
I use certain kinds of widgets (twitter updates, recent comments) on my blog,and I realize after installing them, it takes a longer time to view the page. Is it the problem of server load,too?

is widget a type of plugin,too?

No. but if you put a third party services it does influence the way your blog loading. you should be selective in choosing what third party services should be put in the blogger.com widget

What about us, the Blogger-based bloggers? What can we do about it?

blogger blogspot is a free service owned by google. so, there’ll be no such problem of server load etc. Google is internet superpower and is very generous too.
I actually recommend everyone to use blogger.com for personal use i.e. for pure blogging (not for commercial one) as I do with farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com
because under blogger.com our blogs will last very very long.

Pakde Cholik
September 11, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Thanks for the tip. So, I should deactive these plugin I think.

1. Super-cache plugins

2. Google XML sitemap generator plugins

3. Related Post plugins

Hope it could solve the problem of loadingtime in my Blog.
Regards

Blogger Indonesia
September 12, 2009 at 12:27 am
Pakde, if you have not got a warning from your hosting provider, you don’t need to deactivate any plugins.

Even if you got a warning, you don’t need to deactivate the supercache plugins since its function is to reduce server from overloading.

Warning from host provider will come after we got many traffics (3000 page views plus / day)