Quote Originally Posted by DrByte View Post
Since you decided to post your issue in someone else's thread, I would hope that you actually read through the thread and considered the suggestions given to the previous poster.
However, I see no evidence in your post which suggests you've done anything to inspect the root cause yourself.
ie: what happened when you followed my suggestions posted as the first reply to the original poster?

Also, as Kim mentioned, is your site fully patched? All forum members were emailed about an important security patch back in June 2009.
And, a list of important patches is prominently posted in the News area, as well as at the top of every forum section.

Also, I notice that all the URLs from the logs you posted, are not standard URLs generated by Zen Cart. Thus, you've got some sort of addon involved too. Perhaps turning that off, and maybe several others too, might help you isolate where some of the performance bottlenecks are for you.

If your hosting account has NOT been having these performance problems previously, then you've likely installed an addon that's causing you problems, or you've been hacked.
Only *you* can figure that part out.

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...ing_From_Hacks

It could also be that you've been having these problems all along, causing some server problems for the hosting company, and maybe the hosting company has just recently turned on some performance monitoring and your site suddenly came up in their first analysis, thus making you their first candidate to slap around. Either way, you'll need to narrow down the problem by working up a list of differences between your site and a brand new clean uncustomized install, and sort out whatever you've got that's breaking things.
i was not aware that threads with similar problems are only for the person having the problem. I read this thread and it seems the closet to what problem i am having if it is not by all means remove my thread and place in the respective area of the forum.

Thanks for you help, i decided the VPS might be a better move for now, since there seem to be no clear answer.