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9:10 pm
March 10, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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Hi everybody! I've been submitting guest posts like crazy (as you may have noticed over the last few months) and will actually be landing a spot on a big one early next week (I can't tell you which one, but tune in on Sunday to see – I am SO HAPPY).
Anyway…this means that I will hopefully be getting a nice traffic spike and was hoping that some of you would be kind enough to check out my blog with a fine tooth comb to make sure I am set up for company, lol.
My regular readers have probably noticed that I've been doing little renovations over the last 2 months to make the place more habitable, but now it's time to inspect it like my mother-in-law was visiting!
Let me know if you have any troubles navigating, find it takes too long to load, that certain things are ugly, etc. I will not take offense. I may also not make the change (some things have to stay where they are), but I will appreciate ALL suggestions even if I can't follow through. I know I can't make everybody happy all of the time, but I should at least not chase away readers with a bat either, lol.
Please post your observations here (it may help others) or email me at budgetingfunstuff*at*gmail*dot*com. Also let me know if you'd like for me to return the favor. It may take me a while to make it through a long list of blogs to review, but I do not mind at all. It will give me practice for my own blogs. :-)
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6:26 am
March 11, 2011
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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Crystal,
That is excellent news. Can't wait for you to reveal the big name. I will see if I can find anything noticeable on your blog -
Congratulations -
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6:44 am
March 11, 2011
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The Single Saver
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I will be happy to nose around a little, Crystal, though from what I have seen so far I would say you have nothing to worry about. I can understand your excitement. I have the opportunity to guest post on a really terrific site on the 22nd! ;)
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8:31 am
March 11, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Do you have a cache plugin turned on and ready for all the extra traffic? If not, I would make sure to get one working. Spikes without one can kill your server.
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8:56 am
March 11, 2011
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Everything looks good. Congrats on the guest post!
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4:03 pm
March 11, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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@Sunil, thank you!
@The Single Saver, remind me/us on the 22nd and I'll promote the bejeezus out of it. :-)
@Eric, I have been using the WP Super Cache, is that enough? Thanks for the reminder either way!
@LaTisha, thanks for looking!
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7:38 pm
March 11, 2011
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You may want to consider temporary disabling certain plugins that require database calls on the day of the post, if you expect monster traffic. Blog webpages themselves aren't very bandwidth/CPU intensive – text and pictures. But Wordpress is driven by a database that can become very CPU intensive with a lot of traffic. That's when hosts when take down your site (temporarily).
I also think some hosts will have a pricing plan where they will automatically upgrade you to a better, but more expensive, hosting plan under heavy load. Might want to look into that.
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10:13 pm
March 11, 2011
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Do you know any examples of plugins that would be CPU intensive? I host through HostGator who says they can handle a big temporary spike for me but will ask me to upgrade if I use too much of their resources for an extended period of time…
Thanks for the advice! I am giving a shout out to the Yakezie in my welcome post to the visiting readers as a thank you. :-) Everybody make sure you're on my list! http://www.budgetinginthefunst…..mber-list/
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5:11 am
March 12, 2011
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Glen Craig
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Definitely check into a caching plugin. Also check with your host and see what they will do if your traffic is particularly heavy for a day or so. You don's want to find yourself shut down because you exceeded their resources. Maybe you can give them a heads up that you expect a short-term surge?
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9:21 am
March 12, 2011
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I clicked through and everything seems to work fine. Looks like you changed your adsense to blend it, may be you did that before I just didn't notice  , looks nice. I think you moved the donate button to the left bottom and re arranged sidebars. Everything looks good to me.
I know people have stressed this already, but make sure you have the caching plugin switched on and all the settings on for caching.
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9:42 am
March 12, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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Thanks everybody! Let me know if WP Super Cache isn't enough…is there something better?
I appreciate your help!
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1:38 pm
March 12, 2011
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Congrats, BFS! If you're using WP Super Cache…
Make sure that it's turned completely on and not only "half-on".
Under advanced make sure this is turned on: Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files. (Recommended)
This too: Compress pages so they’re served more quickly to visitors.(Recommended)
And finally I recommend putting preload on, too. Under the preload tab: Preload mode (garbage collection only on legacy cache files. Recommended.)
One thing to keep in mind: Because everything is cached, any plugin you have that relies on dynamic behavior may not work as expected. Dynamic behavior meaning it should do something different depending on the request. Because it's cached, it will have the same behavior until the cache is updated. This affects plugins such as "most popular posts" or plugins that serve different ads to different types of visitors. So, you may want to turn the cache off afterwards.
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4:50 pm
March 12, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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Wow!!! Thanks so much for the detailed instructions!!! I've turned on everything properly and will remember to shut them off once the spike trails off. Again, thank you so much!
BTW, does anybody know how much traffic HostGator can handle normally?
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6:30 pm
March 12, 2011
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Hostgator shouldn't have any problem handling your traffic as they are a very large host. However, I'm pretty sure they have a 20% CPU utilization limit and I thought they shut you down if you breached that.
However, since you contacted them and they said they could handle a short traffic spike then you will probably be ok.
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