You might have noticed that I’ve taken down the translation at the sidebar. This is because Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro wordpress plugin has caused my webhost servers to crash few times a day. At first my site was suspended due to “resource abuse” but I didn’t want to believe that. I then migrated my website to a new server that is only hosting my site and the Apache webserver service crashed too! It definitely had something to do with one of the Wordpress plugins. I worked very hard with my webhost and finally we managed to trace what’s causing the server very high load and crashing it.

I had to disable plugins by plugins for my webhost to check the resources being used. When I disabled Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro plugin, my webhost immediately can see that the resources usage is dropping to a normal state.

To confirm that it’s Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro plugin that’s causing the high load level, I turned it back on. Without delay, the resources shot up again until the Apache service crashed. Using recommended WP-Cache 2 caching engine doesn’t help.

It’s been a week since this problem occurred. The last time Angsuman replied my email was on 21 March 2007 and that email didn’t solve anything… If I didn’t pay money for this plugin, I might just disable, delete and use another translation plugin. Problem is I’ve already paid $30 for this plugin and I expect some kind of support given for 6 months which is stated in Angsuman’s website.

I read in Angsuman’s website that he’s updating the plugin to translate 32 languages! It also said to have a new intelligent caching engine, designed from ground-up, which will drastically reduce your server load and serve the pages super fast, without loading the translation engines. It intelligently reduces the number of requests and manages the load factor so you do not overburden the translation engines and also your server, thereby reducing your bandwidth and serving your users faster.

If you are thinking of buying this plugin, I’d advice you to hold on to it first until the next version is out to fix this problem.

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