Is Pagelines CSS a resource hog?

[markland 2]

My site is crashing - my webhost says its because I'm maxing out resources.

Looking at my webalyzer, the file that is using a serious amount of resources is a pagelines-compiled-css file. At the bottom of the file when brought up independently it just read, "CSS was compiled at Tue, 09 Oct 12 21:58:30 +0000 and took 1.19082 seconds using 50.67MB of unicorn dust."

50MBs is a ton of unicorn dust. But what does that mean?

According to webalyzer, the CSS is using 10x more kbs than the next nearest resource, an image file.

(and apologies if my terminology is all wrong... I'm not a coder by any means).

Help!

[Simon 248]

Your site does not load all all, period. Not even http://creepyla.com/

[markland 2]

Try again if you can, Simon. They just increased my limits due to the high resource usage.

[Simon 248]

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/iRNcQmIDZ/http://creepyla.com/blog/

Depends what your calling a resource to be honest. Your making 100 HTTP requests to the server on every pageload, so if you get 1000 users in an hour, well you can do the math

But yea you can force the css to be written to a flat file if your server allows it.

define( 'LESS_FILE_MODE', true );

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add to wp-config.php

[markland 2]

We're getting 5000 users per day at the high end...

Thanks, will add that code in and see if it helps. Much appreciated!

[Rob 547]

Okay, let me explain a few things... it's not the PageLines CSS, but WordPress that's at the root, but not to blame. The more traffic your site gets, the more processes run at the same time. When your server's PHP memory resources are all used, the site slows or crashes.

The solution, as I painfully discovered last November, is to migrate to a dedicated server if you're getting heavy traffic. I moved my heavily visited site to iWeb Technologies to a dedicated server and no more crashes.

You can try some short term solutions like the host increasing PHP resource memory to 128Mb or even 256Mb. But failing that, you will need a dedicated machine or WP specific hosting, such as BlueHost or WP-Engine.