Acceptable Cpu Usage

[mtcjayne]

How active does a website have to be for thr 20% CPU usage limit to be a concern? Is this something I need to be anxious about if I make a forum or blog and it gets a lot of visitors?

[Krydos]

We offer unlimited cpu and unlimited memory for the most part. The way it works is as long as you're not causing anyone else's website to load slowly or go offline you're fine. Keep an eye on this image

 

 

If that number goes over 20 and your account is causing the most load then you might get suspended. There are two types of high load suspensions: spike load, and sustained load. Sustained load is like if you have a blog that gets really popular and you're getting like a million hits per day. Spike load is stuff like web proxies such as glype or file transfer scripts like rapidleech. These scripts can cause load to spike really high when used even if it's only one person that is accessing it.

 

I recommend checking in occasionally to see your load levels if you're curious. Just make a post and we can tell you how you compare to everyone else.

[mtcjayne]

Ok. Are this type of suspensions permanent or does the user have an opportunity to choose between reducing their useage or moving to another host? In this case I'm talking about a no-fault type of situation where a site has legitimately and naturally grown.

[Krydos]

Our policy is to give users three chances. If it's obvious that the user isn't actually doing anything to reduce the load then we may not even give them three. If they really are trying to fix the problem we can sometimes give them more than three chances.

 

You really probably don't have to worry about all of this by the way.

[mtcjayne]

I was almost positive I didn't have to worry about this stuff but wanted more information so I could be certain. Thanks again.

[Krydos]

We had a guy make it onto the front page of reddit or something one time and we did our best to keep his site online, but it was a rough twelve hours. Our servers are pretty tough.