Hello Everyone, 21 June,10 was a very sad day for me, a very sad one indeed. Why? because my my blog suspended for hours. Yesterday i saw my hostgator account got suspended because of high server load and the same time my net stopped working (what a.. bad luck).
Hostgator – One of the most Reliable Hosting I have ever seen, they are very reliable.
What now happened?
The problem was of high server load. Today i come to know Yet another related posts plugin causing the high server load. I just removed the yet another related posts plugin. Now i’m using wp related posts plugin. I’m also using W3 Total cache and clean options plugin to reduce the server load.
To You !
Many of my readers also experience this problem because they couldn’t get access to one of the best blogs for a very long period of time. Now everything is fine.
A very big thanks to all my readers for the support 
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Glad to know things are okay now, Dev. That’s a lot of trouble to be caused from a plug in, and a pretty popular one at that. Good to know things are working okay with the changes though.
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Hey Jean,
Yup that plugin caused lot of problems.
Thanks for the support Jean.
Good to hear Dev – I’m sure it sent you into a bit of a shock but at least everything worked out and we all got a little learning exercise out of it
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Yup You’re absolutely right and the same time .. my net stopped working…
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Thanks for the support as usual.
Hi Dev, I remember chatting with you last night while your site was still down, before you found out what was causing the high server load.
Thankfully you found out what it was! And I am also using ‘Yet Another Related Posts’ plugin so I’ll definitely have to disable that one and use something else… thanks so much for sharing this, you saved my site
I’m glad you got your site back up and it wasn’t down for TOO long.
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Hey Jonathan,
Thanks.
Hostgator team said 99.999% of the time the YARPP is the culprit.
Now i’m using WP Related Posts Plugin and I’ve also changed the contact form because contact form 7 found to be vulnerable.
Thanks for the support Jonathan. I really appreciate it.
You’re back baby! And that’s all that matters man!
Sucky but at least you did not lose everything.
I was lucky enough to run into Joella aka Blog Angel and she directed me to the cache plug in you talk about. Probably saved me.
Stay awesome!
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Hey alex,
Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it.
LOL. Glad your blog is alright now!
You are way luckier than me because last time, my former host “accidentally” deleted my blog, which is even scarier and sadder! I wrote about it here:
http://www.glosonblog.com/my-former-blog-host-accidentally-deleted-my-blog-and-how-i-fixed-it/
After that, I decided to switch to HostGator. And indeed, they are very reliable. I really like their support and live chat.
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Hey Gloson,
That’s really wired
and i think hostgator is one of the most reliable and awesome hosting on the web.
Thanks for the support gloson. I really appreciate it.
Hi Dev,
Sorry your blog was down. It’s good to see your blog back up again. I kept checking your blog, it was down, and I think this happened right after you won the contest over at smartbloggerz!
Well hope to see your new posts!
Kindest,
Nabeel
Hey Nabeel,
Thanks for the support man. I really appreciate it.
Hey Dev,
Sorry to hear about your blog going down like that. I actually have that plugin installed too but don’t really use it. Good that you have everything back to normal!
Peace,
Darren L Carter
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Hey Darren,
Thanks for the support
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Plug-ins are a great thing, as they can add functionality to a blog, but unfortunately those are not always bug free and can cause serious problems. Lately my blog started to go so slow and it took me days to find that it was because of a recently added plug-in. It is nice that you’re back online. Looking forward to interesting articles!
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Hey Daniel,
You’re absolutely right.
Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it.
Hi Dev,
Glad you are back.
I wondered how you faced it
I was like dying when mine happened. Just like yours, my internet connectivity also had some problems when my blog was suspended.
Thanks a lot,
-Onibalusi
Hey Onibalusi,
Thanks for the support bro
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heya dev,
that figures… i tried logging into your blog for quite some attempt but it kept popping the Hostgator site..
glad that everything is back at normal now~ =)
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Hey Febap,
Thanks for the support bro.
It happened to me too, and it was the MaxBlogPress ping optimizer plugin.
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Hey Dennis,
Thanks for the support man.
Hey Dav,
Bad luck with the problems but good to see your back up and running again. As they always say you have to push forward on the bad days.
Thanks for calling over to my blog I’m just getting around to calling back to a few of people that left comments as I have been busy with creating a product at the minute.
Hope you have no more problems mate
Glyn
Hey Glyn,
That’s awesome to hear about your new product.
Thanks for the nice comment. I really appreciate it.
That was a nightmare for you for sure. Glad to see that your blog is back to normal now. No doubt, Hostgator is one of the best web hosting company on the web, I like their technical support and live chat!
Between, what plan that you’re using right now? I thought Baby plan has unlimited bandwidth and disk space, then you might not facing the problem such as high server load?
Regards,
Lee
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Hey Lee,
I’m using Baby Plan and it has unlimited bandwidth and diskspace.
And bandwidth & diskpace has nothing to do with high server load.
Thanks for the support Lee.
Happy to see that teshnshare is back and successfully giving the value to it’s reader (including me) in a very less time.
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Thanks for the support Robinsh
Sad thing for sure but thanks for letting us know what plugins can be dangerous .
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Thanks for the support venkat.
Wow Dev,
I had no idea that the plugin could cause such a problem. I will have to intentory my own stuff to make sure I’m not doing the same thing. That sucks that it happend, but thank you for sharing with everyone.
-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire
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Hey Joshu,
Hmm.. that’s great to hear.
Thanks for the support.
Very sad to hear, but very glad too to hear and visit the blog and all is good
It is indeed useful for us who has never encountered the problem. Thanks for posting Dev 
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You’re welcome kimi and thanks for the comment.
It was bad to hear that your blog underwent a downtime for so long. I think Hostgator is behaving odd nowadays. Even though I do not use Hostgator, I have heard many people complaining. Good to hear that you found out the root cause of the error. I too use YARPP and I am confused as to disable it or not.
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I use YARPP too, and it runs well by me? i am scared too ;(
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Hey Shiva and kimi,
I think you should disable it and use any another wp related posts plugin.
Thanks for the support.
Happy to see it back
I will remember that plugin
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Glad your back up and running again man,
I never knew plugins could cause such serious problems. I think from this experience, you’ve helped so many other people, so thanks Dev.
Looking forward to your next post!
Bailey
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Thanks for the nice comment Baily.
Thanks for the warning about YARPP Dev. Glad you got it sorted out pretty quickly!
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Up until last month, I’ve been using YARPP and haven’t had issues with Hostgator @ all.
Did Hostgator actually confirm this as a fact?
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Yeah,
Hostgator team said 99.999% of the time the YARPP is the culprit.
Thanks for commenting.
Hey Dev,
Glad your up and running again, I did have problems getting onto your blog, it’s terrible it took so long!
I have had a few problems with hostgator, but nothing to make me worry as yet…
Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the situation, in case we need to do the same in the future,
Sally
Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately I’d already un installed YARRP.
I have had many website woes recently.
Firstly, I couldn’t get my emails. I use one of my domains for all my emails, it was the first domain I set up and I kind of just kept using it for email… there was no reason to change that. Then one day, they stopped. So I checked, first thing you always check, ‘did I pay my bill?’ Yes. Next, ‘can I load my site?’ No. Next, ‘can I load my host’s site?’ NO!!
It took 4 weeks to resolve that, my host had gone out of business and I had to get hold of the domain registrar and prove who I am and get my emails moved over. I also lost my domain then – and (2 months on) haven’t managed to get round to rebuilding it.
Two weeks after that (while I still didn’t have emails), my main income-generating website died. It wasn’t there any more. Usual checks: paid bill/Yes, site up/No, host site up/Yes. It turns out the host had been bought by another company and they had (unsuccessfully) migrated my website. It was down nearly 3 weeks, the end of this meant I had to move my site to a new host… hopefully an improved host.
So I moved hosts – and thought everything was going to be fine – until I went to send out my first newsletter. I had to make some changes to the smtp server information, then sent out the newsletter. BIG PROBLEMS…. my site was “site unavailable”… here I was mailing ’000s of people to say “come to my site” – and it was down! That one turned out to be the volume of mails I was sending out, apparently there was a limit, but the host had not controlled the limit. I think most of them ended up marked as spam, I only got 400 hits on my website.
So, I wasn’t doing very well. Then last night, I went to see how many new members I have – 0. 0 is an impossibility. I get 25 new members every day, always have, always will…. so I investigated – and registered myself. The system was not sending out emails, the emails contained a verification code too. So I contacted the host and they have said it’s fixed now… only time will tell.
But there’s another problem, my site needs an upgrade. So now I have authorised the host to make the upgrade – and I am sitting here with fingers crossed, hoping it will all go OK today.
This has taken me about 6 weeks in all. None of it was expected. But we get through these times don’t we.
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I like to know now your blog is safe. How could you came to know the overload is come because of plug ins? and is the WP plug ins are good for the blogs as compare to other plug ins?
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good post.I had never used YARPP so dont know about it.But thanks for the information
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