Postkiwi

The Duncans.tv suite of web sites is coming up for renewal of hosting agreement in March. The postkiwi.com suite is probably due for renewal now. So when Duncans.tv was suspended twice in this last week for taking up too much CPU bandwidth I started thinking about options for the future.

Should I place both domains with the same host? In which case it would make sense to buy a deal as a ‘reseller’.

Should I get into a dedicated server deal? That would get around some of the spiked usage issues.

Or should I just find out what’s causing the spikes and fix it?

I’ve got a few theories. Apparently it’s the index.php file that’s causing the problem. That indicates that there’s something in the header, sidebar or main index template that’s churning through the bandwidth, taking up to 35% of the server’s capacity. Possibilities include scripts for cache and preview, and plugins for related posts, most commented posts (the most recently added plugin) and democracy polls. Maybe it’s just the blog statistics monitors that cluttered up the sidebar until this afternoon.

So… anyone got any suggestions on hosting deals? Or php solutions?