what is the amount of cpu utilisation

[sravan]

Most hosts ( virtual hosting) offering economical packages will cut off my site if sys resource /CPU utilisation exceeds a limit .This limit can vary bet. 10 to 40% depending on the host.Somewhere I read that pressing submit button can raise it to 40% momentarily and a webhost cut off service reasoning that. some scripts ( sp. those with my sql)also use good amount of cpu power.
My query is what is the amount of cpu utilisation & back ground running processes with vbulletin ?

[Martz]

Originally posted by sravan
Most hosts ( virtual hosting) offering economical packages will cut off my site if sys resource /CPU utilisation exceeds a limit .This limit can vary bet. 10 to 40% depending on the host.Somewhere I read that pressing submit button can raise it to 40% momentarily and a webhost cut off service reasoning that. some scripts ( sp. those with my sql)also use good amount of cpu power.
My query is what is the amount of cpu utilisation & back ground running processes with vbulletin ?

Usually a server will work at 100% for each task set out, to get it done and out of the way - no point in using 10% and take 10 times longer to do the job. AFAIK, this is done over an average, and unless you start hacking your code, inserting hacks which increase the number of queries you should be ok. Obviously the more concurrent users you have, the more your load average will be effected,

Personally I think any provider which pulls the plug on you straight away for stepping over any limits is not worth dealing with. They should at least contact you and talk it over in a professional manner to resolve the situation.

Just my .02p

[tubedogg]

It varies wildly depending on a huge number of varibles, not the least of which are how many users you have online concurrently and how active they are while online.

Most shared hosts will allow you up to about 30 to 35 concurrent users (for any forum software - this is not unique to vB). Anything over that and you need to be looking for a very lenient host or a semi-dedicated or dedicated solution.