Tag: high cpu

wp-supercache plugin for MH servers

I had written about using a cache plugin with all the wordpress blogs in order to reduce the CPU usage before. Although, some of our clients were complaining about issues with the most popular “wp-supercache” plugin with couple of our servers. We use some custom security protection which might block couple of wp-supercache commands. I here therefore, uploaded a workable version of  latest wp-supercache 0.9.9.9 that works perfectly with our servers. You can download the latest version of wp-supercache compatible with our servers here:

http://mellowhost.com/downloads/wp-supercache.tar.gz

Wp-supercache is a property of its original author. More details about this plugin is available here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

How to stop wp-cron.php from firing!

Recently, I have written an article about reducing the cpu usage for a wordpress blog. My post contains some information about the wp-cron.php, but it doesn’t explain how you can stop wp-cron.php from taking high CPU. Couple of our twitter followers and facebook clients were asking for a post describing how they can stop wp-cron.php from taking high CPU or firing up. Here are some small tricks to reduce the CPU usage from wp-cron.php.

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