[Solved] Suspended: dragdow2

[dragdow2]

Hi guys, 

unfortunately my account was suspended.

My username is dragdow2, server Ricky, domain dragdowl.work.

I guess it happened because I tried to download some of the heavy content to my local machine for backup purpose. May I have it back?

Thank you!

[wolstech]

Your account was suspended because Wordpress is causing too much load. I have unsuspended your account, but please try to limit the load you put on our servers as it slows down not only your site, but the sites of all other HelioHost users sharing your server.

 

This is really common for Wordpress. It can cause massive amounts of load even if you're hardly getting any traffic to your site. Wordpress is also incredibly insecure and very easy to hack. We see Wordpress accounts get hacked all the time and usually the hacker sets up a phishing site on your domain. We strongly recommend using any software other than Wordpress.

 

Something that might help is this simply static Wordpress plugin. It will speed up your site, reduce the load you cause, and reduce your chance of getting hacked. If you try it let us know how it worked out for you.

 

If you insist on using Wordpress you might want to consider purchasing a VPS instead. VPS hosting gives you an entire virtual server to yourself, including no load limits, a dedicated IP address, and full root access. Wordpress sites load relatively slowly on our shared hosting, but they will be much faster on a VPS.

[dragdow2]

Awesome, thank you so much! I see that Wordpress is slow and plan to get rid of it in the foreseable future. And for the current moment I'll install the simply static plugin as a temporar solution, thank you for the recommendation. 

[wolstech]

Please keep in mind for that plugin to work, you need 4.9 or older. It might not work on 5.x (and definitely does not work on 5.5, someone mentioned that yesterday).