Help if you can: MySQL Database inquiries exceeded

I have a website going on domain dot com and
it keeps shutting down and the reason they are giving me is that the basic plan is limited to 75000 database inquiries per hour.

Now my site is not very big and the traffic is just now reaching like 1000 a day.
I've limited the plugins on wordpress to a very small amount.

The problem is no where on their website do they say there is a limit on these inquiries. If there was I would have shopped better.

I figured since it was 'domain dot com' they would be a more reputable support etc... I was wrong.

The lady on the phone is talking to someone through chat and can't answer my questions are help me at all.

I've searched online and I can't even find someone complaining about this anywhere.

Is this a scam? Are most hosting sites limiting inquiries like this while advertising unlimited plan etc?
Is there something I can do different with my database to fix this?

I feel like I've wasted a huge amount of time and money to finally get to this point and I don't know what to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

Most shared hosting plans have limitations, even if they say unlimited (there is usually a clause in the small print).

You will probably need to upgrade to a better plan, change host or hire somebody to check your settings.

If you can't afford to upgrade to a bigger plan then try to find a Wordpress database cache plugin. This will help you to reduce drastically the number of database queries that are you currently generating.

WP Super Cache maybe could help here. it generates static HTML files for your pages so they won't make any database call

I would recommend moving to a VPS plan. If your traffic keeps growing you will need to move here anyways. Shared hosting plans are just that they are shared resources so your host will have different limits set on these plans.

Thank you guys I will look into doing this. Everything was going smooth until this happened, it just took me by surprise. 75000 inquiries per hour is a lot? For like 5000 people a day site?

pumpdumppenny said:

Thank you guys I will look into doing this. Everything was going smooth until this happened, it just took me by surprise. 75000 inquiries per hour is a lot? For like 5000 people a day site?

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It's not a lot of queries, that's not your issue IMO. It's what Asif said, a limited hosting plan.

As others said, look into caching. If your pages don't change too often, you can just serve a static version. Also good for SEO if you have faster pages.

pumpdumppenny said:

Thank you guys I will look into doing this. Everything was going smooth until this happened, it just took me by surprise. 75000 inquiries per hour is a lot? For like 5000 people a day site?

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install the debug bar plugin and see how many queries per page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/