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Originally Posted by dasaybz
I have this hack installed on my website and each day I have roughly 15 people on, and my site comes to a grinding halt. My webhosting company is dreamhost, and they are continually blaming my site's slow speed and 500 Internal errors on the shoutbox. I have a hard time believing them since our usage is not that high. My question is, could dreamhost be correct in telling me that our shoutbox is killing our site? Even with such a limited amount of people on it?
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Yes it could be. It brought my site grinding to a halt and I had to upgrade to a new dedicated server.
There are some options to reduce load such as reducing the refresh, etc..., but in my case they had little effect.
On a new server though it's whizzing along and performing brilliantly.