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    best host that allows best % of cpu usage

    Which host company you think is the best in terms of allowing a good % of the cpu on shared plan,

    so far i have found the following

    bluehost not exceed %50 for more than 30 Sec.
    hostgator %25 for 60 Sec.
    webhostingpad %10 for 30 Sec.

    what is the % of cpu allowed on your host?
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    Heres how I see it * the more you pay the more cpu you get* and if you need anything over 10% cpu get a vps
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    bluehost claims that they allow %50 of cpu usage on their plan (shared), but in reality I am not sure how much is this true?
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    Quote Originally Posted by darkeden View Post
    Heres how I see it * the more you pay the more cpu you get* and if you need anything over 10% cpu get a vps
    yupps....anything else and your coat would be hanging on a shakey nail.

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    Look into higher quality and more expensive hosting plans such as MediaLayer.
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    There is no gurantee really regarding the cpu usage, The only way you can determine the CPU usage is by purchasing a dedicated server. Even in VPS, there is a cpu limit, though it should be much higher than the conventional shared/reseller hosting.
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    The question is what happens when you hit that? Are you allowed to go over with a warning? Is the CPU throttled at the application level? Linux? Windows?

    Only sloppy developers need that much cpu on a shared hosting-size site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Collabora View Post
    Only sloppy developers need that much cpu on a shared hosting-size site.
    Or you could simply be having a traffic spike (Digg, etc.).
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    if you can get 50% cpu usage, thats dig for the entire day and you should be know where near shared hosting
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    Seeing as 'you are not allowed to discuss your own company here', I will say there are hosts the same as Hostgator, I think 25% upto 120 Seconds
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    I guess I'm old school. I think you can have as much as you want as long as no one notices.
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    Quote Originally Posted by darkeden View Post
    Heres how I see it * the more you pay the more cpu you get* and if you need anything over 10% cpu get a vps
    i second this, using anything more than that is being greedy and will affect other users on the server. Personally i think 5% is a fair limit, especially when you look at the current spec of servers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Collabora View Post
    I guess I'm old school. I think you can have as much as you want as long as no one notices.
    Just like you can use as much disk space as long as nobody notices? Life just doesn't work that way, people will submit tickets and hosts will notice if you cause high loads and high CPU.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Collabora View Post
    I think you can have as much as you want as long as no one notices.
    Unless the host is either having a routine manual checkup of their servers or if CPU usage threshold is setup at an application level.

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    Most hosts have it listed in their resource abuse policy under their AUP.

    The average I see is 20% per domain/file/application.
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    Quote Originally Posted by darkeden View Post
    Heres how I see it * the more you pay the more cpu you get* and if you need anything over 10% cpu get a vps
    Agree 100% with the first part. But if you're consistently using over 10% of a typical (high-spec) shared server then a small dedicated would probably make more sense than the typical VPS.

    Quote Originally Posted by Collabora View Post
    I guess I'm old school. I think you can have as much as you want as long as no one notices.
    I think that's probably true for many hosts. The trouble is, even if the host isn't monitoring closely, with hundreds of other users on the server it probably won't be long before someone notices...

    The simple answer is you can't expect to compare different hosts' ToS and get any kind of meaningful guide to how much cpu you'll be allowed. Even if you see "x% for x seconds", is that x% of a Xeon dual quad or x% of a P4? And how are they measuring that x% anyway? If you think you'll be using a lot of cpu, look for hosts with a good reputation whose prices are high enough to cover the sort of usage you have in mind.
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    I think that's probably true for many hosts.
    Indeed, and sometimes many of the stated limitations are not actually hard limits, but more like guidelines for customers, and for "we told you so" reasons.

    Also, 50%, 25%, 10% usage can only be there for you if sufficient other customers are not using this "right" at the same time. It also doesn't mean that you can use 5% constantly ad infinitum.

    Like darkeden said, "the more you pay the more cpu you get", which I would even change a bit into "the more you pay the more likely you are to get more cpu".
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    different hosting has different policies. Sometime very hard to figure out which one best suit your needs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by foobic View Post
    Agree 100% with the first part. But if you're consistently using over 10% of a typical (high-spec) shared server then a small dedicated would probably make more sense than the typical VPS.
    I can find a good shared server with a good % of cpu for less than $10 per month, can I find something similar with a small dedicated and same price range? probably not


    I think that's probably true for many hosts. The trouble is, even if the host isn't monitoring closely, with hundreds of other users on the server it probably won't be long before someone notices...
    I can not imagine if there are companies looking at the clients cpu usage manually (especially if the company is big), there should be a lot of host-tools to do such kind of monitoring automatically and give them a report of who used more

    The simple answer is you can't expect to compare different hosts' ToS and get any kind of meaningful guide to how much cpu you'll be allowed. Even if you see "x% for x seconds", is that x% of a Xeon dual quad or x% of a P4? And how are they measuring that x% anyway?
    I was wondering about the same thing, do they tell you what kind of cpu they are using and how they measure it ?
    It could be a company with max %25 cpu better than another one with max %50 depending on the cpu-type

    If you think you'll be using a lot of cpu, look for hosts with a good reputation whose prices are high enough to cover the sort of usage you have in mind.
    I was always under the impression that higher price means better service but in reality with my own experience this is not always true ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by manhal View Post
    Which host company you think is the best in terms of allowing a good % of the cpu on shared plan,

    so far i have found the following

    bluehost not exceed %50 for more than 30 Sec.
    hostgator %25 for 60 Sec.
    webhostingpad %10 for 30 Sec.

    what is the % of cpu allowed on your host?
    Bluehost has hard limits. Hostgator does not. I don't know about Webhostingpad.

    So you are comparing grapes to coconuts concerning the actual CPU usage limits imposed by the hosts you listed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manhal View Post
    I can find a good shared server with a good % of cpu for less than $10 per month, can I find something similar with a small dedicated and same price range? probably not
    Agreed. Which means that the $10 shared account is a bargain, until the host notices your usage and politely asks you to upgrade or move on...

    I was always under the impression that higher price means better service but in reality with my own experience this is not always true ...
    No, but the combination of a higher price and a good reputation usually gives a fair indication.
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