PHP memory of 256mb Max

Hi , recently i encountered a few problems with my site. It is due to PHP memory of 256mb, my hosting is hostgator shared hosting. They said i already exceeded.

May i know what cause my site to exceed the PHP memory limit ? Is having too much websites in my hosting the cause? Since my plan is unlimited domain, i have quite a number of websites in the hosting.

If i delete a few websites, will it help ? Thanks!

 

Hi,

It is your actual website that is hitting the 256MB limit that they've imposed. You can try to reduce image sizes and/or 'blocks' of content. That usually reduces the amount of php memory that your script is calling for. If it is a specific plugin, you can try to see what hat plugin is doing that is causing so much memory usage, and then disable the functions of that plugin that require so much memory.

So for example, if you're getting these errors when visiting your homepage, you may want to check the php script to see how many images its calling for, and reduce that number Or, reduce the quality of the images themselves

The problem is not from having too many websites. It's directly related to the specific website giving that error

 

How do i know which plugin uses so much memory ?

 

Unfortunately that's going to be much harder to find since you don't have root access to the server. You may want to contact them and see if they can help you find the plugin that's consuming so much memory. Many web hosting companies (like ourselves) will be more than willing to give you this information and work with you on trying to reduce the memory consumption.

You can start investigating by seeing where you're getting the errors. Are you getting them on the front page? If so, what plugins are active on the front page? Then you can try disabling each plugin one by one, refresh the page, then disable another, and keep doing this until you see no errors. That will let you know where the problem is.
An easy way to do this would be to open an FTP client and go to your plugins folder. rename the plugins one by one, testing your website each time to see if you see the error. If you don't see the error, you rename the folder back to the original name. This will help you with your limited tools

 

Nowadays most shared hosting allow you to update these value directly on your account, 256MB is a bit low as example we use 512MB as default and client can update that value up to 2048MB

Cyber monday is coming soon might be the time to start shopping around and get you moved out of hostgator.