Today i received a mail from my host (Anhosting.com) that all my sites are shut down due to excess CPU level usage and they are asking me to upgrade to a VPS. My host package was: 300 GB space 3000 GB bandwidth I have around 30 sites including 2 forums, few blogs, directories, etc. hosted here and i haven't yet exceeded the bandwidth, what do i do now? I wasn't aware of any kind of thing such as CPU limit until now. I am not in a position to upgrade to a VPS nor do i know any basic details of its functioning. Suggest me a good host or a VPS where i should not undergo this problem. Anhosting provides a VPS for $45/month which is very expensive for me. Please help me through
A typical ending to a successful website owner who is a shared hosting customer.. lol! you will get to this point with every other shared host... its time for you to move onto a VPS there are a lot of good VPS offers these days especially with Lxadmin control panel the cost can be well below $10 per month for a basic VPS though it will take some time to get used to Lxadmin, it is worth it. See here there are a lot of good VPS offers: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 p.s. moving websites is pita
I really do not know how a VPS works, so could you provide me a source to learn about its basic functioning, handling, etc. My host provides just 10% of CPU usage compared to 25% Hostgator. Which shared host in your opinion is good, i am thinking of moving my sites to a new host? Of course, i would want my new host to transfer all my sites or at least restore a cpanel backup.
Most likely your forums are causing the overload of CPU usage. If you know coding, then do this (learnt this the hard way): 1> See which sql queries are selecting too much data. Free the data as soon as it's used. 2> Add indexes to your database. 3> optimize the database regularly. 4> remove any useless mods that you might have installed. If you are using wordpress for blogs, then I think the new version performs better on memory usage etc. CPU usage has nothing to do with your alotted webspace, or bandwidth. Even with a VPS, you get like 20-40% CPU usage depending on the host you choose. If the forum keeps growing quick, you might soon need a dedicated solution. Hope that helps... regards
IMO if you go for any shared hosting you will finally end up like this only... forums with lot of members and posts are resource hogs (particularly if ppl search a lot)!! in addition to that you have lots of blogs + sites and this 10% and 25% are burstable limits meaning you can use them just for some time... imagine how can a server with hundreds of shared customers can give 25% of CPU ?? a VPS or a Dedi is a good option EDIT: as JEET said you can try some tweaks but you cant avoid load due to traffic
Thanks for the help Jeet! I really do not know coding, and yes i have forum and many wordpress blogs. Do you think i should shift to a better shared host as the present one provides just 10% CPU usage compared to Hostgator with 25%? If so, suggest me some good shared host? I have heard about Hostmonster and Hostgator, but do not know how they work.
If you go with say completevps.com or geekrack.net I know they are extremely helpful and active with their clients (the latter offers level 1 management free with all vps packages) so the management/ step up to a vps wouldnt be too bad. IMO that is definitely the way you should go, you have just outgrown the shared hosting sector. if you need any help with vps etc ... you can contact me via msn :
Many of the hosts couldn't handle the account if any of their shared account is using a bit more than the allocated resources, especially in a highly overselling environment. You can go for our reseller hosting package if interested. Please see http://sambahosting.com/resellerplans.htm for price information