Skin taking too much ram?

[neodesc]

This evening I installed a new vBulletin skin on my forum and a few hours later the server went down. This hadn't happened since I moved to this new server several months ago so I think it's a skin problem.

The hosting support has just sent me an email telling me that something is taking too much ram.

It's a DUAL XEON DUAL CORE 2.67Ghz, 2Gb ram server by the way and a custom design.

show me your style, i'll gauge it for the bandwidth... it's only bandwidth... if it is filled with images, sure it will break the server, because you have bandwidth limits on your host...

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by nexialys

show me your style, i'll gauge it for the bandwidth... it's only bandwidth... if it is filled with images, sure it will break the server, because you have bandwidth limits on your host...

That would have to be one heck of a skin to break bandwidth unless he had like no bandwidth left...highly unlikely it was the skin.

[Mythotical]

Well I can say from experience that a vb skin will not cause your server to go down, not even bandwidth limits as they would just put up a message saying your out of bandwidth. What more than likely happened was you have a bad fan in your server or another piece of hardware went bad or is going bad. When the hard drive in my server went out, it started by server shutting down and before too long it wouldn't come back up so they had to replace the hard drive. Now another reason is the cooling fan, that starts going then your server will start going down at least once a day or every other day, before too long it will completely shut down and not restart.

I suggest getting your host to go over your server hardware, now your host could also be experiencing outages.

Just my thoughts.

[neodesc]

The MySQL connection went down. It wasn't a bandwith problem but maybe it has nothing to do with the skin, I started using openads (phpadsnew) yesterday too and after contacting my hosting support they think that's the problem.

My forum.