This morning I received an email from the hosting company of the site I admin saying that our site's "CPU minutes per day" usage is ~24x average usage. Our site is a small site for local hobbyists - there's no streaming content, maybe 20ish users on at any given time, and on a busy day we might see 20-30 new posts. We do OpenX for banner ad rotation and CometChat. We're NOT using vbSEO.
I recently took this particular site over from another admin and found that the "Session timeout" was set to 250000, so I reduced that to 1800 (30min). There was not a robots.txt file, so I added one (shown below). After doing those things our count of "online users" down from 71 to 20 registered users and from 1423 to 30 unregistered users/guests.
The hosting company said it will take 24hrs to collect enough data to know if these steps have made a difference. How likely is it that one of those two things could have been the culprit? Any other suggestions of things to check? The site can't afford to pay to be moved to a VPS like our host is suggestion, and based on our ACTUAL usage, I can't see how it'd actually need that.
Here's the robots.txt file I put in the site's root directory:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/announcement.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/showpost.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
I recently took this particular site over from another admin and found that the "Session timeout" was set to 250000, so I reduced that to 1800 (30min). There was not a robots.txt file, so I added one (shown below). After doing those things our count of "online users" down from 71 to 20 registered users and from 1423 to 30 unregistered users/guests.
The hosting company said it will take 24hrs to collect enough data to know if these steps have made a difference. How likely is it that one of those two things could have been the culprit? Any other suggestions of things to check? The site can't afford to pay to be moved to a VPS like our host is suggestion, and based on our ACTUAL usage, I can't see how it'd actually need that.
Here's the robots.txt file I put in the site's root directory:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/announcement.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/showpost.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
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