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I have written about how to reduced server load on a shared hosting here and here. It seems I missed one of the vital ways to reduce WordPress server load on shared hosting. I will talk in brief about one of the best ways to reduce server load. Most of wordpress users are aware that it works using a database which keeps on growing with the number of posts, comments and even plugins. This growth normally is not very systematic and often lead to errors in wordpress database. In technical language, we call it ” Overhead“
Sometime back i wrote about How to reduce WordPress server load on Shared Hosting and there i talked about Google XML sitemap Generator plugin can be one of the main culprits behind your High server/ CPU load on your shared hosting. In this post i will talk about few things about the same plugin and how to configure some of its settings so that it uses less CPU or memory on shared hosting.
I am assuming here that you already have installed the plugin and have some issues with your CPU/Server load on shared hosting. You should change the default options only when you know what you are doing. Some of the configuration changes as described below surely will help you reduce your server load and run your blog smoothly.
