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Warning: Bluehost's 'Unlimited' isn't quite so unlimited

If you're considering Bluehost as a webhost provider please read this regarding their 'unlimited' hosting as advertised. Today I received an email from my hosting provider, Bluehost, with the heading " Server Performanc e Warning for [mysite.com] ".   Reading further, I discovered it was a nice automated email stating " It has come to our attention that your site is using an excessive amount of MySQL resources on your BlueHost.com account. This is causing performance problems on your website as well as for other customers that are on this server. It can cause our servers to crash and cause additional downtime. " On their website they advertise Unlimited hosting space and unlimited databases. As it turns out, if you read the fine print that they kindly sent me in the email, this comes with a catch that they can basically take down your site if it reaches limits that they say degrade server performance.    To help you out,  t hese limits ar

How to fix Piwik not working when https protocol is enabled

If you noticed that your Piwik has stopped working when enabling SSL or it never worked in the first place using https, you may be having issues with the protocol. Most hosts only allow SSL for one subdomain (usually www) unless you order an expensive package so if you happened to install Piwik on a subdomain (say analytics.example.com) while SSL will work, an exception will need to be made as the certificate doesn't match the exact URL.  Because of this, piwik will not load the scripts correctly.  Luckily this is simple fix. Overview : Make sure SSL is the problem Update the tracking script Step 1: To make sure that SSL is a problem you have to try to load the piwik.js file from your installation folder using both https and http.  By default, mine was trying to use https and it was showing something similar below in firebug. If it shows the piwik.js source code then this is not your issue. Alternatively you can open the file in the browser by going to: https://a