annie Posted May 23, 2004 Posted May 23, 2004 I've been talking with Mariann about server resources. What could get you booted from TCH or other services? I've done some searching, and saw one person bitch about having been booted from TCH because of a Moodle installation. He was told in no uncertain terms that TCH did the responsible thing - by someone at the Moodle forum. I saw someone with a huge installation of the Cutecast board (cgi-based with flat file database) was booted from another host. I'm not asking you to name specific scripts, but more under what circumstances you could get into trouble with using too much resources? Like for instance under what circumstances could IVPB or phpBB become a problem? Edit: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/072.htm This guys says: What effects server load the most is how many consecutive users you will have on each website. Or in other words how popular are you going to let each site become before it doesn't become viable to have it on a server with so many other sites that are all vying for memory, CPU cycles, disk access, and bandwidth. Before I started using dedicated hosting my last virtual hosting company for example would not allow my site to have more than 50 people on it consecutively. This can be very constraining. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted May 23, 2004 Posted May 23, 2004 You cant really say if/when any ceratin account willstart using to many server resources. But, I can tell you we dont just kick someone off and terminate there account if there sute starts to grow. The guy from bootdisk is partially right, traffic does affect server resources. But what effects it even more is how efficient your page is. You can have a site with very few visitors and poorly coded php/sql whatever and your site could be a resource hog, on the other hand you could have a site that is all static content, not database driven and have a huge amount of traffic and the server never even hiccup. Most sites that get suspended for high resource use are because of cron jobs running to often, or poorly coded scripts. In the case of moodle, even the ppl AT moddle say that moddle uses a lot of resources and runs better on a dedicated server. Quote
annie Posted May 23, 2004 Author Posted May 23, 2004 I use cron jobs at least twice a day. Backing up logs, and doing grep and backup. Hopefully that's not the level you are talking about? Quote
TCH-Dick Posted May 23, 2004 Posted May 23, 2004 no, twice a day is fine, believe it or not there are some ppl that will try and run huge cron jobs every 60 seconds...thats what I was talking about Quote
TCH-Don Posted May 23, 2004 Posted May 23, 2004 Also from Banned Scripts The following scripts are not allowed on TCH servers (shared and reseller accounts) Accounts found with any of these scripts installed will be suspended without notice. GreyMatter PHPShell CpanelMail Quote
DarqFlare Posted May 23, 2004 Posted May 23, 2004 Wow, I thought my domain that ran a total of 4 crons per hour was tough... 60 per hour kinda tops it though. Quote
annie Posted May 24, 2004 Author Posted May 24, 2004 Found an interesting discussion about this issue: h*tp://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=248330&highlight=slashdotted Wow, found this in that thread: ---- As soon as I start getting customers that are liable to be slashdotted/farked/whatevered... I might set up a separate server just for that. As soon as the onslaught comes, dump a static version of the site onto the the dedicated with a special "Hostedby:" bar on top with some ads. Then replace the index file with a redirect. Write that into our AUP and the default alternative for those events. If they would rather not have that happen, then their site can be suspended, or they can move to another host, and wait for the DNS resolution... ---- Something for TCH? Quote
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