What may cause server overload?

[levani]

Hello,

I have a very serious problem, my hosting adminstrator has stopped my site as it cause server overload. He said that the problem had been experienced for the last several hours, while I hadn't made any changes by this period of time. Can anyone please tell me how can I fix this problem? What may be the reason?

Thanks.

[andyany]

Hello,

I have a very serious problem, my hosting adminstrator has stopped my site as it cause server overload. He said that the problem had been experienced for the last several hours, while I hadn't made any changes by this period of time. Can anyone please tell me how can I fix this problem? What may be the reason?

Thanks.

Well, it would be better if you get in touch with your webhost and ask him to provide you log files so that you can crosscheck that it's you are other hosting account which is causing load on server. ( I hope you are hosted on shared server )

else if you have VPS or a dedicate server then you can check all running process using top command and try to kill few which are eating up server resources ( make sure they will not affect other processes )

Usually you never know which scripts is loading server if you haven;t optimized then properly.. better get all information from your hosting provider.

PS : is there any spike in traffic for your website, recently ?

[GoodBanners.com]

is this a once off ? sometines when the server process your traffic logs can cause this overload issue, but it's temporary

[levani]

Well I use shared hosting. This has happened already secone times this week.

May all this happen because of the script? I use wordpress and I haven't made any changes to the script this week, how can it cause this problem itself, as it had been working fine for several days.

As my hosting administrator said no entries are made to the log file, it just uses too many server resurces. They can't say the exact reason...

Any ideas?

[GoodBanners.com]

no idea then, even the server admin who has backend access cant see whats going on, we probably cant help much