Hostgator cut off 25%+ cpu

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This is annoying they just cut you off. Asides from a dedicated box for this site, which i don't want, what other hosting is out there which will scale better or something? I spend all day emailing them back and forth to get it back online.
 
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if your using that much cpu, just spend the money on a dedi, a vps will fall over during peak hours with that sort of load anyway
 
OP .... your comments echo... are exact to what happened with my hosting provider. they cut suspended my (many) websites. Wordpress and forum websites .. I think it may have been a plugin I added, but not sure.

The point is I share your concerns and stressed. All my sites are down.. And need hosting but do not just want to make a quick move for it to all happen again.

Who to go to ?
 
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darkAsPitch said:
It's odd they couldn't just limit your cpu rate to 25%, or 10% or something, and let you max that out as much as you'd like.

They probably can and just don't want to :P
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you can only do this with vps's
 
Not sure what causes it, might be just traffic spike and then they nuke it.
 
if you're using high cpu either you're doing something wrong (i.e. wordpress without cache), or hitting something hard enough to justify a vps/dedi.. you decide :)
 
darkAsPitch said:
Yes but technically, 1000 hosting accounts on 1 server is synonymous to 1,000 vps without root access, no? Bascially, are all hosting plans not mini vps's?
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not even close, vps's have huge running overhead and you can lock down easily to specific resources, shared hosting, each user will take as much as they want unless u suspend the offending users, shared hosting runs all accounts from a single webserver and db instance, that in turn makes it a hell of a lot harder to lockdown accounts
 
trophaeum said:
not even close, vps's have huge running overhead and you can lock down easily to specific resources, shared hosting, each user will take as much as they want unless u suspend the offending users, shared hosting runs all accounts from a single webserver and db instance, that in turn makes it a hell of a lot harder to lockdown accounts
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on a unix/linux shared setup you could of course use limits/nice to enforce resource limits per user, but in practice you're right.. they'll just turn you off
 
plunge said:
on a unix/linux shared setup you could of course use limits/nice to enforce resource limits per user, but in practice you're right.. they'll just turn you off
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limits generally arent for your entire user and if they capped you at 1% cpu usage on your php, you would be stuck at that for the entire runtime of your php script, which means more apache threads waiting to send the entire reply of your page and so on which just ends up doing more harm than good on servers plus mysql has no way to proportionally limit cpu usage per user, you can limit queries/hour and concurrent connections BUT someone could do simple queries while another does evil subselects... lol it just doesnt work in practice and the overheads for what you can implement are huge, hence, vps
 
Use caching. Hostgator love it. I stuff 600 domain on one hosting account. When CPU too high I just buy another baby account.
 
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