Account got suspended due to a uBot script

[godfly 0]

My wordpress website have about 30,000 posts. I need to bring it down to maybe a thousand only due to obvious reasons. I have tried wordpress plugins but they all fail due to the amount of posts that have to be deleted. I created a UBot script that automatically deletes the posts 15 at a time. It's on a loop and it fails from time to time but I'm happy that it managed to bring down my posts to 20K something. Then I got an email from my host that they have suspended my account because it apparently chewed through over 4gb or ram and brought the entire server down. How did this happen? Is that even possible? I mean I am running UBot remotely and I am trying to understand how it could have eaten the server's resources.

 

Attached: my ubot screenshot

[1nspire 5]

Man I would just dump the entire site and start over if you are mass deleting post.

 

But about your problem I doubt it is ubot but wordpress that is eating the ram with all the php queries and database queries.

[greencat 18]

My wordpress website have about 30,000 posts. I need to bring it down to maybe a thousand only due to obvious reasons. I have tried wordpress plugins but they all fail due to the amount of posts that have to be deleted. I created a UBot script that automatically deletes the posts 15 at a time. It's on a loop and it fails from time to time but I'm happy that it managed to bring down my posts to 20K something. Then I got an email from my host that they have suspended my account because it apparently chewed through over 4gb or ram and brought the entire server down. How did this happen? Is that even possible? I mean I am running UBot remotely and I am trying to understand how it could have eaten the server's resources.

 

Attached: my ubot screenshot

 

This isn't really a Ubot problem I reckon. Any automated script might have done the same thing. Here's a couple of things you can do that might help avoid it:

 

a) Turn off images in IE prior to running the script. Images are major suckers of bandwidth - and therefore server capacity. If you're generating just one page view for each deleted page (and each page is 50K) - well that's a lot of bandwidth.

Stick some delays in various parts of your script. This will be kinder to your server.

 

One thing you could consider is cloning your wordpress set up on your own computer - running the script there and then uploading it all back up to your server.

 

Lastly maybe it's worth thinking about this from the other way around - what are the thousand posts you want to save (and perhaps migrate them to a new wordpress installation)?

[webautomationlab 21]

My wordpress website have about 30,000 posts.

When automation goes wrong....

 

Good suggestions here for you from the two posts above.

[jewcat 0]

What you need is the NukePig plugin. Wipes thousands and thousands of posts or comments at a time with ease...

 

Activate NukePig -> "Deploy Tactical Nuke" on Posts... **POOF** Fresh start. Entire process won't take more than a minute...

 

http://blogpig.com/products/nukepig

[godfly 0]

Thanks everyone! Exceptional suggestions! I am also curious about NukePig. I wonder why it's free. Free stuff online worry me sometimes.

[Natureboy 3]

if this was an autoblog...u were probably pulling too many feeds at once...that has happened to me b4...my solution was to tell my host kiss ass and then i got myself a dedicated server...lol