hey Joe
Thanks. I hadn't thought of the 100 thumbnails per page .. I'll look at that. I changed the css to make the powered by coppermine more prominent. It displayed well enough on my calibrated monitor, but it should be brighter now.
Yes, I've emailed the guy who made some core changes to my site a while ago about upgrading to the new version, and am waiting to hear back from him. If I try to do it myself, at this point with the tweaks to the code he made for me, I'll be dealing with a lot more issues than resource usage. But I am in the process of making those changes, thanks.
André - I've always thought that, too, just from the perspective of the scale of the directories, and the size of the relative sections of the site, that wordpress couldn't possible use as much resources. But I have no idea about such things.
I looked at the debug notice, and get this:
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Page (performance)
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Parameter Current Peak
Memory usage 4.99 MiB 7.11 MiB
Page generation 100 ms 100 ms
Page query time 2 ms 2 ms
Page query count 30 30
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That looks close enough to what you posted to suggest it's not a problem, correct?
I
think we may have found the culprit .. some old (now corrected) link structure problem is being crawled by bingbot.
Showing urls like this:
GET /Bio/alaska/bio/stock/stock/contact/bio/stock/thumbnails-22-Kenai-Peninsula-photos.html
GET /Bio/alaska/bio/stock/stock/stock/eagles/stock/stock/thumbnails-82-Muskox-photos.html
GET /Bio/alaska/bio/stock/stock/stock/eagles/stock/thumbnails-13-Grizzly-Bears-Photos.html
Thousands of them.
.... those pages don't exist, and are producing 404 errors. Because I have the site root based on wordpress, the 404 error is being called and created dynamically, every time. So I tend to suspect, at least for now, that's where the problem is (if indeed it's only ONE problem
). I pointed all those pages via a 301 redirect to a static page, so hopefully that solves that error. I should know some time tomorrow if the resource usage has lowered after changing that today.
No other bot crawls those urls, only bing/msn bot. They're from direct requests, not linked files.
I set a 301 redirect like this
RedirectMatch 301 ^/Bio/ http://www.skolaiimages.com/bio/index.html
so anything with that prefix goes to a static page. I don' tknow whether that's the best solution, or even
A solution, but it seems like it should solve some things. If anyone who knows this stuff better than I do has a better solution, I'd be glad to listen.
I'll post back when I hear from the webhost about whether this has solved anything.
Thanks so much.
Cheers
Carl