Comments on: CPU minute restrictions removed http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/ Tips & Tricks for Dreamhosters Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: the blogging » Dreamhost not so dreamy http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-2166 the blogging » Dreamhost not so dreamy Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:06:08 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-2166 [...] Dreamhost is very vague about CPU resource utilization on their shared hosts, and I don’t know how many other customers I share happy.dreamhost.com with, but I’m confident that if my website were serving 24 page views per second, I would be adversely affecting the performance of the shared server, so the high bandwidth limit LOOKS like a great deal, but the type of website I host is unlikely to ever be able to use it without grinding the poor shared server to a halt, a scenario that looks suspiciously like what’s happening right now on happy! [...] [...] Dreamhost is very vague about CPU resource utilization on their shared hosts, and I don’t know how many other customers I share happy.dreamhost.com with, but I’m confident that if my website were serving 24 page views per second, I would be adversely affecting the performance of the shared server, so the high bandwidth limit LOOKS like a great deal, but the type of website I host is unlikely to ever be able to use it without grinding the poor shared server to a halt, a scenario that looks suspiciously like what’s happening right now on happy! [...]

]]> By: Elliott Back http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-643 Elliott Back Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:17:44 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-643 Just so you know, a <a href="http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/03/22/1and1-sucks/" rel="nofollow">popular wordpress blog</a> running the standard WP script with caching will still use what dreamhost considers to be too much CPU. Yet, now on dedicated hosting with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and a Gig of Ram, it's running smoothly. In all reality, Dreamhost cannot offer a service guarantee of uptime without regards to CPU usage. If you get too big, they'll cut you off. Just so you know, a popular wordpress blog running the standard WP script with caching will still use what dreamhost considers to be too much CPU. Yet, now on dedicated hosting with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and a Gig of Ram, it’s running smoothly. In all reality, Dreamhost cannot offer a service guarantee of uptime without regards to CPU usage. If you get too big, they’ll cut you off.

]]> By: Pete http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-605 Pete Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:14:50 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/#comment-605 As an overall goal with these changes, we are trying to avoid the situation where we promise big allowances that you can't manage to use. As you can see from the wiki history, we used to take a "60 cpu minute per day" approach to this, but we have now made the decision not to pester people about high usage until it's actually impacting the machine. There's no numeric line that gets drawn anymore, it is a purpose-based line now: Are you or aren't you interrupting service for other customers? We feel this is a problem we can solve through balancing our machine loads more intelligently. Of course, if you run a script that's just so incredibly abusive that it is crashing the machine repeatedly, we will still have to take that offline. That is still against TOS and hasn't changed. As an overall goal with these changes, we are trying to avoid the situation where we promise big allowances that you can’t manage to use. As you can see from the wiki history, we used to take a “60 cpu minute per day” approach to this, but we have now made the decision not to pester people about high usage until it’s actually impacting the machine. There’s no numeric line that gets drawn anymore, it is a purpose-based line now: Are you or aren’t you interrupting service for other customers? We feel this is a problem we can solve through balancing our machine loads more intelligently.

Of course, if you run a script that’s just so incredibly abusive that it is crashing the machine repeatedly, we will still have to take that offline. That is still against TOS and hasn’t changed.

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