It happens that phpmagazine.net was very resources consuming in the beginning especially due to its very high traffic, today the website is much more stable but it took long time until we find such results. What I wanted to talk about today is related to high resources consuming, and how hosting providers manage such issues to keep their servers stable. I have experienced such issue many times last year and to solved resources consuming problems the website is immediately moved to a temp server. And here is when the problems began.
1- Different Servers Configuration
It is really difficult to solve resources consuming problems if the two servers are running different configuration. The temp server is usually faster because it’s not used by lot of users, things which can influence on the information given about resources consumed.
2- Different MySQL versions
If we go into more further details, you can notice that when the two servers are running two different version of MySQL you can immediately find yourself in an uncompatibility issue. Usually you’ll notice it if the website is moved without the database, simply check phpmyadmin in the two servers you’ll see the difference in mysql version.
In this case the database is moved manually, until backup solution start to be more aware of compatibility between the database version. We’ll provide more details concerning the use of MySQL Backup Pro as an integrated backup solution.
3- DNS for domain and subdomain
I always experienced this, when the website is moved I always notice that subdomains still point to the old server. This is due to a facility in the apache configuration, to set domain and subdomain point to different IPs. So when you move the website from a server to another don’t forget to reconfigure the subdomains to point to the new IP.
Conclusion
Even that all these issues could be easily solved, sometimes it could take about two days until you notice a problem somewhere and notify the administrator to fix it. This is for people who decided to use shared hosting even with a very high traffic. But be aware that you should be experienced to fix all issues related to high resources consuming, otherwise better to move to a dedicated or semi-dedicated hosting for more freedom.
