I had a problem for a few days with a site I moved to a new host. The home page wouldn’t load all the way. It would sort of stop and random spots and I couldn’t figure it out. I was almost going to move it to another host but instead persisted figuring that I might have the same problem at a new host.
I, of course, immediately was looking at the error logs but they weren’t telling me much at first. I then found a good post in the WordPress Support Forum about something similar and then I checked the error logs again. I found that memory was being maxed out and it said it was due to the Contextual Related Posts plugin. Deactivating it took care of the problem immediately. It was using up too much memory.
So I’m switching plugins from Contextual Related Posts (which I thought was great except for being such a memory hog) and am now going to be using one called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP). It works fine and is not a memory hog. It has some caching functions.
Which brings up another point – cloud hosting.
I’m not that big of a fan of it. I’m getting charged up the wazoo for GPU usage, which is like CPU usage. It’s not a bargain at all unless you have a bunch of static websites. I hate moving sites around so much but I’m finally figuring it all out. I got an account with Hostgator and despite the fact that they use CPanel (blahh!), it’s alright. I just tell myself that I only have to use CPanel at the beginning to set things up and then I don’t see it very often.
The best hosting control panel, by far, is Plesk. Know it. Believe it.
Anyway, despite a mini slump last month, this month is looking pretty good so far. Keep writing articles, people!
UPDATE: Another plugin I’ve disabled since it was eating processing power was “Cookies for Comments” – sorry, Matt Cutts! 
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