CPU Overuse

[Busonyong]

I have an Invision Power Board with a small membership of 100 people. I am using 3358.46 Megabytes a month. I am paying for 500GB and have never even hit 1GB. My host is telling me I am using up too much CPU Space and is causing error messages to appear instead of my site in an effort to limit my CPU Usage. They have told me to optimize my site and I have run all the checks and such and find nothing wrong. I have had others check it and they can find nothing wrong. My host has basically told me tough bananas. I have prepaid for the year. Am I SOL? I have only been on the host for 2 months and my site was exactly the same as when they transferred it but they are just now saying I am using to much space.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have exhausted all of my resources.

[dataguy]

CPU usage is difference than space, and most hosts do have a clause in their terms of service that states that your web site may not use an excessive amount of CPU processing power.

I wonder if your site is getting hit with some sort of rogue web bot which is causing the problem. You should be able to look at the web logs to find this.

Your host should also be able to tell you which page of your web site is causing the most problem. Do you know for sure that the CPU usage is too high on the web server or could it possibly be on a separate database server that your web site uses? If it's the database server, make sure that you have the indexes built properly on your database. This can cause processing bottlenecks.

[caran1]

Is there any way one can find the CPU usage for a website? Any rough guidelines will be useful. With most webhosting companies provide info on bandwidth and webspace, but CPU/RAM usage is difficult to find out

[kaled]

I am using 3358.46 Megabytes a month. I am paying for 500GB and have never even hit 1GB.

Would you care to rethink that statement?
1GB = 1000 (or 1024) Megabytes.

How much are you paying for 500GB (a month?)?

That much bandwidth probably should be on a dedicated server, not a shared server. If it were a dedicated server, no one would care how much CPU time was being used since the worst case scenario is that the server will draw ~30 watts more power flat out - other sites would be unaffected.

Rule number one when selecting a new host DON'T PAY FOR A YEAR UP FRONT

Kaled.

[Matt Probert]

My host is telling me I am using up too much CPU Space and is causing error messages to appear instead of my site in an effort to limit my CPU Usage.

A standard "fair use" policy. Which is anything but fair to you!

You can perhaps log in and use "top" to display the CPU load. But I recommend a dedicated server.

Matt

[Busonyong]

Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.

Yes, I magically did the I am a moron and will prepay for a year. The entire year was $60 (bells going off any time in my head now). Yet again with the moron hat. Also on the moron front thanks for the GB/MG clarification I can at least do something about that one. Hehehehe.

I have been going back and forth with my host and finally asked exactly how much RAM and CPU I am allocated and they took my website off of "moderation for lack of a better word" and didn't answer me. They just sd they were watching me. Neat.

[physics]

If you can't afford a dedicated, have you considered a virtual dedicated server? See:
[webmasterworld.com...]