Data limits

[pooom.t89]

I think that your fabulous hosting would be better if you could increase the data limits per hour.

[Gouri]

I think that your fabulous hosting would be better if you could increase the data limits per hour.

Can you be specific about your issue.

We have per hour limits to only for sending 100 email per hour.

[Dead-i]

If you are referring to the High Resource Usage system, then just to let you know that this system is in place to prevent users from consuming too many server resources which would therefore affect the other users on the server. I will admit that it's easy to go over the limit, but with a server holding tens of thousands of users, you gotta be careful!

Also, good to here you are enjoying x10Hosting!

[theone48]

This is going to sound like a stupid question, but what exactly does High Resources mean? Let's say for example, I've got a popular site.

A: Does it mean storage, stuff I can upload on your servers that makes the site look good?
B: Does it mean bandwith, how many visitors can visit my site?
C: Does it mean auxiliary service usage, eg. sending or receiving too many e-mails or using the account too much?
D: Maybe something else entirely?

[essellar]

"High resource usage" refers exclusively to CPU use (the computational expense of your pages and scripts as it relates to time), RAM use (the computational expense of your pages/scripts as it relates to space) and (to a lesser extent) database requests. A poorly-designed script (one that was written with the assumption that it would be the only thing running on a server) can run over the limits with a single user on a "simple" page, or with a single cron run. A well-designed script (one that was optimized for big-O performance in both space and time, that uses denormalized data or stored procedures when appropriate, and that doesn't emit a lot of extraneous markup) can handle a surprisingly large number of users before bumping into the limits.

There are a lot of platforms out there, particularly things like "advanced blogs" (eg., WordPress) and CMS platforms (eg., Drupal, Joomla) that are extremely versatile, but they get their versatility by doing a lot of work at service time. Adding more versatility (using plug-ins, which are not always well-written) can compound the problem. It is unfortunate, but not unusual, to see a simple-looking WordPress site trigger HRU suspensions on every visit -- especially when you consider that the same site, with the same functionality for both the end-user and the administrator, built as a custom development could probably serve a community of a few hundred users quite comfortably.

Storage is limited by other provisions in the agreement (video/image galleries are restricted to 1GB, no file hosting, etc.). Bandwidth is more-or-less unlimited, but keep in mind that the number of users will affect how much computation a dynamic sit has to do to serve pages -- a poorly-designed site will hit the 240 CPU-seconds per hour limit much more quickly than something that was written with efficiency in mind. Emails are covered under a separate restriction (100 per hour max, plain text only, no forging or spoofing of headers) mostly to avoid spamming.

[essellar]

It's too late to edit my previous posting, but the resource limits, and the way they are auto-handled by the system, are changing -- see Corey's announcement for more details. You still won't be able to do climate modelling or simulations of thermonuclear blast dynamics on a free hosting account or survive a slashdotting unscathed, but between the auto-reset and continued access to cPanel, you ought to be able to fix what's wrong if the problem is your site software.

[theone48]

Thanks essellar,

I very much doubt I'll ever be doing those sims as you describe, but I might have a blog running sometime and that is good to know. Unfortunately, I know absolutely nil about programming, so I'd have no idea how to make anything efficient. Somebody would have to show me step-by-step when the time comes.

[Dead-i]

You could use a software like Wordpress to make a blog. I used to host one on x10Hosting (before I bought x10vps) and I managed to host one without getting suspended for HRU.

Softaculous is handy for auto-installing softwares like Wordpress

[theone48]

Yes, I could Dead-i. Also, I probably could link to a blog with another blog only provider somewhere else, maybe. That might eliminate the possibilty of HRU entirely. I see RVSitebuilder has a blogbuilder, but not sure if it applies in this case.