Comments on: Vinod Ponmanadiyil’s Favourite WordPress Plugins

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:25:55 +0000

Wow, you do keep yourself busy!

If you ever get the time, I’ll read it that’s for sure. Hope you don’t have to sell SNTC, but it’d be worth a bomb I’m sure.

First baby? Or are you aware of the horrors that will entail? (My twins are 5!) Good luck with the sprog anyway Anita

By: Crack

Crack — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:28:49 +0000

I wish I had the time for another site. I barely have the time for my own (and may need to sell it or stop blogging for a while, as I’m expecting a baby and may have to go on bedrest).

Who knows, maybe someday I’ll start a “how to” website. Time is the biggest limiting factor right now.

Anita

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:30:49 +0000

Anita, do you have another blog or website somewhere? Because I learn something from everyone of your comments, so if you haven’t you really should.

I thought dedicated servers were supposed to be the mutts nuts, I didn’t realise they were so flaky.

Something else to file away for another post

By: Crack

Crack — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:18:50 +0000

Chris - Actually, I’m not making any money right now. When I put up advertisements, the traffic stabilized instead of continuing upwards, so I disabled them. I’ve been focused primarily on traffic, so I’ve pretty much ignored monetization.

The problem with dedicated servers is that you need a decent one to handle significant traffic. I’m on a shared server that has 4 dual core processors with 16 GB of ram. When I get a traffic spike, there’s no hiccup. I have friends who are running similar sites on the typical $100-200 dedicated host, and when they get a spike, their server goes down.

Anita

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:52:19 +0000

Very good point Vinod - remember the Divshare plugin Anita? May help.

I’m afraid I don’t have that kind of traffic problem Anita (envy) but I’m not sure I’d trust my host that far. The last time my host did an automatic backup they were a day light-fortunately I had a backup that was up to date and they installed it for me.

I’ve read some horror stories about this…

I don’t know what kind of income SNTC is giving you Anita, but with that kind of traffic, you can’t be too far from moving to a dedicated server can you? May be a worthwhile investment?

By: Vinod Ponmanadiyil

Vinod Ponmanadiyil — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:58:14 +0000

Anita: Moving your pictures to a Photosharing service like Photobucket could save you on I/O.

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:08:29 +0000

The translation plugin is a little overkill. The reason why a lot of languages aren’t supported by all is because of language overlapping. An example is the Tagalog. Most people who speak that language speak English as well. Not only that, a lot of English phrases don’t translate well into their language.

By: Crack

Crack — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:15:42 +0000

Has anyone had problem with backup plugins hitting the CPU limits on shared servers?

My host only allows me to use 5% of the CPU over a 15 minute period, then I would get shutdown for 15 minutes. I use the WP-CACHE plugin, so this isn’t a problem even on heavy days (I’ve survived the 5% cap even on a day with 200,000 uniques and over 5,000,000 hits).

However, since I get 10-20K visits on a regular day, the backup always seems to hit the 5% due to I/O waits. My current backup is just relying on the host … which seems a bit foolish.

Thoughts?
Anita

By: Vinod Ponmanadiyil

Vinod Ponmanadiyil — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:11:58 +0000

Thanks for the mention Chris! I have some more updated resources. Everyday is fresh