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Bad news me and growing bloggers

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a_k_s_h_a_y
a_k_s_h_a_y Original post #1
May 26, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Today i got this Email from my webhost.
eWebguru said:
Hi,
Your site akshayy.com is causing heavy load on server, it appears your site is grown and now not suitable for shared hosting, you are requested to move your site to another provider or better upgrade to VPS solution.

You are requested to move your site before 1st June 2008.

Thanks
for eWebGuru.com

I am soo confused what to do. Am trying to contact my web-host now.

I get daily visitor of 3000+ on Wordpress Stats and 1100 Unique Visitors a day. And now i got this email. This is tiny website according to stats
narangz
narangz #2
May 26, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Strange!

Ravi might know something about this. Are you sure it's not fake?

Or is it that it exceeded bandwidth?
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 26, 2008 at 9:51 PM
no its not fake as such... i got this email from eWebguru.

The email id is something like this

ewebguru.com@gmail.com

May be you are right its a fake mail :(

*img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/4/5/26/t_newmailm_b56f751.jpg
narangz
narangz #4
May 26, 2008 at 9:54 PM
They won't send from gmail. I bet :D
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 26, 2008 at 9:56 PM
yeah sucks. i don't exceed the bandwidth given to me.. that is 20 GB so why should i get this email from my host.

let me verify.. also stupid email id
ewebguru.com@gmail dot com
it should be ewebguru @ gmail dot com
Pathik
Pathik #6
May 26, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Ewebguru is Ashok's site. Whose hosting are you using?

Ewebguru is Ashok's site. Whose hosting are you using?
And no web hosting provider would use a gmail id. Seems Fake
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 26, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Pathik >> Right Ashok's site only. I mean Ashok's hosting, Ashok's server.

he should be informed about this anyway.. LOL !!
narangz
narangz #8
May 26, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Yes it's fake. However it seems very strange. They haven't asked for any personal info. So what could be the purpose?
Pathik
Pathik #9
May 26, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Then contact him first, dude.
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 26, 2008 at 10:06 PM
tried on yahoo messenger .. he is away. Will call him up tomorrow morning on phone.
Cyrus_the_virus
May 26, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Lol, yeah it's fake, seems like some other desperate host is trying to take away his business.
narangz
narangz #12
May 26, 2008 at 10:09 PM
^^Then he should've provided a link :D
Cyrus_the_virus
May 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM
^^Then he should've provided a link :D

I meant like make the host loose his customers and negative publicity, not like they might be trying to catch, and yeah, if it was that way, they should have given some other link.
narangz
narangz #14
May 26, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Negative publicity- Yes! He might loose some valuable customers. Akshayy contact the provides ASAP. He might loose his business.
praka123
praka123 #15
May 27, 2008 at 12:24 AM
what is this?some hidden war b/w hosting ppl? :D I am sure someone purposefully did this :|
QwertyManiac
May 27, 2008 at 1:52 AM
Sorta viral marketing? Scare, spread FUD and win. :))

Of course, it cant be his own work. Well, unless you really are using too much CPU. The hits stats you have said are quite high, shared hosting? :)

You can make things more efficient if the host keeps complaining. I've had to do that once in a while.
ArZuNeOs
ArZuNeOs #17
May 27, 2008 at 5:38 AM
Gee thanks for the info Akshay .....

BTW what an Abhorable technique
Cyrus_the_virus
May 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM
@akshay, have you contacted the host? What did they say about it?
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 29, 2008 at 5:53 PM
he is not taking the yahoo call yet !!
have to call him on phone.. but this part i hate.
may be i will mail him.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #20
May 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM
drgrudge site had gone due to heavey load :D I think this post is fake. Try contacting him first. Losing business because some other loser rival is not good.
narangz
narangz #21
May 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM
^^ drgrudge's site?? Couldn't get you.
naveen_reloaded
May 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM
thats why i love blogger.com

u know a good template from eblogtemplate.com and a good editing of the template and few modding .. gets u better blog than anything..

actually i run both blogger and wordpress( x10hosting ) and i p.s like blogger for simplicity and robust... bring in whtever traffic u want and it stays there...

so try to switch to blogger.... just a advice..
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 29, 2008 at 11:30 PM
I verified !!

ITS NOT FAKE.

I REPEAT ITS NOT FAKE.


Warning is: I should reduce site load. Else am done for.
I should not use lots of wp-plugins. is the idea given by the host.
narangz
narangz #24
May 29, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Site load? May I know what exactly does it mean?
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 29, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Its not the bandwidth.

Its the server load, whenever some visits a php website, it has to preprocessed by php and it loads the server.

Also soo many plugins, all in php that much of load. every refresh means again load. that way.

AND SOMETHING like that. Also Javascript should be executed on JVM i think so.
narangz
narangz #26
May 29, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Yes, I understood that. But it's strange, I guess. :(
Faun
Faun #27
May 29, 2008 at 11:44 PM
AND SOMETHING like that. Also Javascript should be executed on JVM i think so.
nope it doesnt need JVM.

remove the extra plugins too, they takes a hell lot of time to load
, dont sacrifice performance for UI
Btw how much bandwidth limit is in your hosting ?
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 29, 2008 at 11:51 PM
My bandwidth is 20GB
I use up almost 16GB This month.

Sparing 4 GB.

Next month it will go to 17-18
Then 20. The End of it.....
have to think. will do after the exams.

I still don't get the email part, why would they send you something from an email address like ewebguru.com@gmail.com???? when they have their own domain and can send you emails from anything@webguru.com?:confused:

Why do I smell something fishy here?

i don't know i just had a chat with ashok.
he said he only sent the email...........
praka123
praka123 #30
May 30, 2008 at 12:10 AM
^but you got hosting from cyrus; right? :confused:
a_k_s_h_a_y
May 30, 2008 at 12:14 AM
no i got hosting from eWebguru.com
its Ashok.