Hi,
I got an email from my webhost (Lunarpages.com) today saying that I use more server resources than I'm allowed, and that I need to sort it out within 7 days otherwise they will suspend my account. My package is a cheap $105/year shared server, and to be honest I've never had a problem with them until now. They were fine for what I needed and I was happy with the customer support, which was better than I've previously experienced with a couple other companies. Here are the figures they gave me:
mysite.com CPU 2.54 MEM 1.61 MYSQL 0.1
Top Process %CPU 58.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 29.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 27.0 /usr/bin/php
Apparently I should only be using "1.0% average %CPU or less, 1.0% average %Memory or less and Top Processes below 20%."
Right now, I feel cheated, because only last week I paid for another years hosting with these guys, and they go and do this! Nothing has changed on my website concerning the amount of php scripting I use, and the only major thing these days is my vB, which only has about 6k members. However, in the past year and a bit it has accumulated 165k posts in over 4k threads. Is this causing a strain on the server? Well, of course not the server, I mean, my pitiful server resources allowance.
If I prune all the threads that, say, haven't been posted in in the last 6 months or so, would that ease off my php usage and get the server techs of my back? I don't know what I can do, which is why I'm posting here. If anyone has experienced similar problems with their websites and managed to sort something out, please share! I don't know how the hell I'm going to half my usage.
They're trying to push their 'new' dedicated server package, which costs per month what I pay in a year. This isn't something I'm willing to pay, nor am I interested in spending so much on what started out 2 years ago as a hobby.
I got an email from my webhost (Lunarpages.com) today saying that I use more server resources than I'm allowed, and that I need to sort it out within 7 days otherwise they will suspend my account. My package is a cheap $105/year shared server, and to be honest I've never had a problem with them until now. They were fine for what I needed and I was happy with the customer support, which was better than I've previously experienced with a couple other companies. Here are the figures they gave me:
mysite.com CPU 2.54 MEM 1.61 MYSQL 0.1
Top Process %CPU 58.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 29.0 /usr/bin/php
Top Process %CPU 27.0 /usr/bin/php
Apparently I should only be using "1.0% average %CPU or less, 1.0% average %Memory or less and Top Processes below 20%."
Right now, I feel cheated, because only last week I paid for another years hosting with these guys, and they go and do this! Nothing has changed on my website concerning the amount of php scripting I use, and the only major thing these days is my vB, which only has about 6k members. However, in the past year and a bit it has accumulated 165k posts in over 4k threads. Is this causing a strain on the server? Well, of course not the server, I mean, my pitiful server resources allowance.
If I prune all the threads that, say, haven't been posted in in the last 6 months or so, would that ease off my php usage and get the server techs of my back? I don't know what I can do, which is why I'm posting here. If anyone has experienced similar problems with their websites and managed to sort something out, please share! I don't know how the hell I'm going to half my usage.
They're trying to push their 'new' dedicated server package, which costs per month what I pay in a year. This isn't something I'm willing to pay, nor am I interested in spending so much on what started out 2 years ago as a hobby.
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