Hi,

I was recently informed by my hosting company (westhost.com) that kksou.com is causing too high a load on their server. I was very upset and confused. My site is just a simple Joomla site with no audio and video streaming. After following many of their recommendations and advice, they still insisted that my site's CPU usage is around 10% with spikes up to 30%. They have given me an ultimatum until this weekend to change most of my dynamic pages into static pages, or else they will "move my account to a high resource usage server". (I don't know what this means - I suppose it means a slower server and less up-time, maybe.)

I think one of the main reasons for Joomla being the most popular CMS is because of its dynamic nature. Contents change. The web page changes too. I would really hate the idea of changing my Joomla site into a static site that gets updated once a day! Not to mention that there are so much hacking of the Joomla core to be done to "force" it to be a static one.

This is the main reason I'm asking help from you.

Instead of making kksou.com a dull static site, the other solution I can think of is to move to their Dedicated Server Hosting plan. However, the cost is USD $169.95/Month! I was hoping that I could get some sponsors or sell some ad space to help fund the cost of the dedicated server.

I'm ok when it comes to writing PHP-GTK sample codes or Joomla plugins. But I'm really not good at site promotion and getting people to advertise on the website.

My site has a PR4, current Alexa ranking of 83,692, 90K pageview and 36K visits per month, and Avg. Time on Site of 3:19 minutes. As for target audience: the site is very dedicated towards the PHP-GTK and Joomla users, both of which are PHP-based.

So if any of you know some of the marketing people in PHP-related companies who have some advertising budget, would be great if you could let them know about kksou.com and see if they are interested to put their ads here. They can email direct to me at support[at]kksou.com.

By the way, there have been quite a number of people who have offered me previously that they will host my site for free. Thank you very much for the offer. I really appreciate this. But I've been through migrating from one host to another before. Took me almost three months to get things up and running smoothly again. (And I've still about 30% of the stuff that I haven't migrated over.) It's really a nightmare. So I would really prefer to stay with my existing host. Other than the fact they have been pretty "ruthlessly" to me these two months on the CPU usage issue, I find they have a very stable server with good uptime and responsive customer service.

So, if you like this website, and you do find some of the sample codes or Joomla plugins here useful, please lend me a hand if you can. As mentioned above, my time is running up. They give me only until this weekend. Just in case things didn't work out and you find kksou.com starts to crawl, at least you know the reason why...

Thank you in advance for your help!

Warm Regards,
/kksou

Hi Justin,

Thank you for your message via the feedback form.

Just get an account at Site5.com They offer
accounts for as little as $6ish a month. I have all my joomla
sites hosted there and I have never have had any problems, and
it is relatively fast. You also get unlimited transfer and
space, shell access, nice cpanel, etc. Hope I have helped!

As mentioned in the post, moving to another host would be my last resort. Migration is just too much a hassle. I would rather make use of the time to write more sample codes or joomla plugins.

If I really need to choose another host, I will definitely take your recommended site into consideration.

Thanks and Regards,
/kksou

Hi,

I have 10Gb of space with godaddy.com, I could create a sub-domain on my site for you. http://www.avasig.com, you could have:
http://kksou.avasig.com

Really, if you find the host is being ruthless, move to a new one. There's no excuse for them treating you like that. Lunarpages offers $4.95 for 12 months with unlimited bandwidth and space. You can't beat it...

kksou, i don't have means of help you, i just can say that the only way i see to solve this problem is really migrating your site to another server.
I think your site is very useful to php-gtk programmers, you have a good way of explanning the language and how applying it to construct programs, and if your site starts crawl from next week, it certanly will be a big loss to us.
Do you intend to make another site for php-gtk in case of they really stop your site?
Do you intend to keep selling your php-gtk e-books?

Hi, I just installed the wiki search plugin and the URL rendered contains your URL (see - http://www.cheritaaxel.net/index.php?option=com_wikipedia&domains=kksou.com&q=test).

Is it possible that individual web site searches is affecting your site's traffic?

Hi Kksou,

I'm writing you an email using my yahoo mail. Check it in 2 minutes.
Not gonna let you down bro,

Tfanova

did you read my message kksou?

Well if you use the JoomlaPack backup and replace you will move your site in a few clicks actually. Have you tried Joomlapack? JoomlaPack (1.2.2 for J! 1.5.X) dl http://www.joomlapack.net/downloads.html Info JED http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1606/Itemid,35/

Read the the "kickstart" pdf doc and you understand how wonderful this tool is for migration using JPA archive... some info;

"8 Kickstart User Guide
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 Purpose
Even though JoomlaPack is designed as an effortless way of backing up your site, it is only good up to
the point of having a backup archive. Restoring it is a pretty much different story.
At first, you have to download the file to your PC. Then extract it. Then upload all the files, via FTP, to
you site (and, man, this is slow or what?). Then rename .htaccess to htaccess.txt. Go through the
restoration process, which is the easy part. Then remove the installation directory. Finally, rename
htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
Did you notice something? Most of this is a common predefined procedure. The only human
intervention trully required is for the restoration process part. Moreover, FTP'ing all those 3000+ files
is an overkill. Because of all of this, Kickstart was born.
Kickstart works in conjuction with the ZIP / JPA archive, directly on the target server. Nothing else is
required. You just upload kickstart.php and your archive to the server, visit http://www.yourdomain.com/kickstart.php, select the archive, wait, go through the restoration process,
click the finish link and presto! Your site is up and running; the kickstart.php, the backup archive and
the installation folder all gone, automatically. Even the .htaccess renaming took care of itself. Isn't this
too good to be true?
Well, it is. You actually need to either turn off PHP Safe Mode, or make sure the target folder is owned
by the same user as the one your web server runs on: this is a PHP limitation we can't overcome."

Well you should be asked to be on "the Planet server" and also have support for MYSQL 5+ then Site 5 working very well.

So if you can get those conditions its very good this price.

kksou wrote:
Hi Justin,

Thank you for your message via the feedback form.

Just get an account at Site5.com They offer
accounts for as little as $6ish a month. I have all my joomla
sites hosted there and I have never have had any problems, and
it is relatively fast. You also get unlimited transfer and
space, shell access, nice cpanel, etc. Hope I have helped!

As mentioned in the post, moving to another host would be my last resort. Migration is just too much a hassle. I would rather make use of the time to write more sample codes or joomla plugins.

If I really need to choose another host, I will definitely take your recommended site into consideration.

Thanks and Regards,
/kksou