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kwdavids on "500 Internal Server Errors with DreamHost"

I've had the 500 errors too from time to time when the traffic spikes. How many sites are you trying to run at the same time on DreamHost? That in an of itself might be the issue, and unfortunately for some really odd reason, DreamHost will not sell you multiple accounts.

DreamHost has some some very good tutorials on optimizing WordPress and reducing memory. It mentions some plug-ins that are real memory hogs.

My site averages serving about 11,000 pages a day and works OK at that level. I keep my plug-ins to a minimum and use WP Super Cache and WP Widget Cache. I figure the secret to keeping memory usage down is for users to get in and get out fast, and I have my page generation times down to about half a second. I also have FAST-CGI enabled, but that is only because my blog is heavily commented.


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