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I would think that you could find a hosting solution that would allow you with dedicated bandwidth, or Server’s.

Have you thought of hosting your own setup? You can always put a server in a farm, and pay space and or bandwidth.

I guess you would have to round up sponsors for this.

Some tips for reducing bandwidth would be, pull photo’s unless they are .gif, use a lighter wordpress theme, setup caching for MYSQL, and PHP, Setup Static Pages, and such.

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2007/02/16/four-plus-one-ways-to-speed-up-the-performance-of-wordpress-with-caching/

http://www.h4x3d.com/how-to-preserve-bandwidth-and-speed-up-your-site/

Sorry to hear your hosting provider is still picking on you. Have a look at Media Temple (http://mediatemple.net/), they specialize in “bursting traffic”, etc.

Not sure who your provider is but you might check out godaddy.com. That’s who I use and they some pretty big resource limits for a very small price.

Hi Rich,

I had the same trouble few months ago. My blog was suspended several days… I still did not find any solution. My blog is not developped enough to support dedicated server or so. I wanted to install wp plugin to cache wp pages, but I don’t have shell access with my shared hosting (needed to install the plugin). So I let go. My traffic stabilized since then, but I fear the day when it happens again.

I’ll try to follow Roger’s links to help …. -:)

Vladan, that’s what I love about http://www.mediatemple.net they will never squash you (say you get on the front page of Digg or Slashdot, etc) they just spool up and down on demand. Their grid-service is pretty affordable (when you don’t want downtime)

Mike over at RTFM (http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=662) recently went through a move for that same reason, he may be able to suggest a solution.

I’d suggest mosso, or slicehost, but I’m also bias (though I would love to be able to Fanatically support a member of the VMware community). Contact me ‘offline’ and we can likely work through something.

-Cody

Roger,

Thanks for the links

Eric, Andrew,

Thanks for the recomendations

Vladan,

I was able to enable wp-cache and that does seem to help. I can’t ssh to my current host either, but I can use FTP. Do you not have an FTP option?

dglynn,

I’ll check with Mike and see. Thanks.

Cody,

I’ll check those out too, and again thanks for supporting and reading VM /ETC

Rich,

Well, I don’t know I i’m getting it right. I could upload the plugin wia FTP, then I could activate it. But, then when I go to SETTINGS_WP-cache I got this error message. (I’m not a real linux expert, but I think for executing this command I need an SSH or console access – via putty …). I don’t think I can execute this command with my FTP client. Am I wrong?

advanced-cache.php link does not exist
Create it by executing:
ln -s /home/vladnfr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php /home/vladnfr/public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php
in your server

Cannot continue… fix previous problems and retry.

I woudn’t call my self a linux pro, but to do any execution, you would need SSH / Console access.

In fact, I am suprised they woudn’t give you SSH access if your using it for wordpress.

I was not able to set wordpress up on my linux box, ( SLES ) without some admin / root access.

Roger L