I am currently struggling keeping my site up under shared hosting, due to high amount of calls to the database, my site’s hosts will put a block if there is a large number of hits, and its annoying, because i constantly get the wordpress install.php screen since wordpress cant connect to the right database.
I have tried everything recommended under this forum, from reducing layouts, turning off whats not needed, setting up cache, not using megamenus, etc. but my problem persists… has anyone tried setting HyperDatabase with this theme?
Several things you can also do
a) install ‘limit login attempts’ plugin to blogk people and bots trying to guess all your user passwords
b) disable XMLRPC, as this can result in thousands of hack attempts
c) make sure under wp > discussion the first two items disabled
Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles
This helps a lot on ANY WP install.
