To reduce the CPU usage of your account
To reduce the CPU usage of your account, there are several general rules that you should follow:
To deal with and reduce a high CPU usage on your hosting account, you must in the first instance identify the reasons for the high CPU usage. Identifying these reasons can be quite difficult, most especially if you are using third-party web applications such as forums, content management or blog systems, which you have not developed yourself, and have little or no knowledge about how they use system resources.
What exactly is CPU Usage and What does it mean to your hosting account? CPU time (or CPU usage, processing time) is the amount of time for which a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program, as opposed to, for example, waiting for input/output operations.
The web server's CPU is used to obtain and serve your web pages to your visitors, whether these pages are static or dynamic is totally irrelevant. More CPU cycles or resources are used when your web pages are served dynamically from a database or script, since the database has to do some fair amount of processing to construct and serve these web pages to the visitors. It has to load the web template, obtain data for that particular page from the database, execute any plugins or modules that you have installed, and finally package the page to be served to your website visitors.
CPU time is a finite resource shared by all websites hosted on a particular web server, if any one website uses the CPU excessively; other websites on the same server will be deprived the opportunity to serve their pages in a timely manner, and will often appear either appear to be sluggish.
As a result of this, we usually monitor the amount of CPU your site uses on shared web hosting plans, to curb problems when a single website uses too much of the CPU time, adversely affecting other websites on the same server. Each hosting account has a CPU usage limit, which, when reached, may result in the account being suspended.
- Upgrade all third-party web applications to the latest stable release available (Drupal, Joomla, Word Press and any other content management or blog systems, forums, galleries or any other scripts that you have installed on your account)
- Check to see if any of the web applications that you use have add-ons or plugins, and make sure they are upgraded to the latest available versions
- Perform a general house-keeping and remove any unused web applications and/or plugins/add-ons that you have installed
- Any web applications that allow caching should have this feature enabled or activated.
- If you have developed your own script(s), try reducing the number of MySQL/MSSQL/ PostgreSQL queries and optimize your scripts to use less processing time.
To deal with and reduce a high CPU usage on your hosting account, you must in the first instance identify the reasons for the high CPU usage. Identifying these reasons can be quite difficult, most especially if you are using third-party web applications such as forums, content management or blog systems, which you have not developed yourself, and have little or no knowledge about how they use system resources.
What exactly is CPU Usage and What does it mean to your hosting account? CPU time (or CPU usage, processing time) is the amount of time for which a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program, as opposed to, for example, waiting for input/output operations.
The web server's CPU is used to obtain and serve your web pages to your visitors, whether these pages are static or dynamic is totally irrelevant. More CPU cycles or resources are used when your web pages are served dynamically from a database or script, since the database has to do some fair amount of processing to construct and serve these web pages to the visitors. It has to load the web template, obtain data for that particular page from the database, execute any plugins or modules that you have installed, and finally package the page to be served to your website visitors.
CPU time is a finite resource shared by all websites hosted on a particular web server, if any one website uses the CPU excessively; other websites on the same server will be deprived the opportunity to serve their pages in a timely manner, and will often appear either appear to be sluggish.
As a result of this, we usually monitor the amount of CPU your site uses on shared web hosting plans, to curb problems when a single website uses too much of the CPU time, adversely affecting other websites on the same server. Each hosting account has a CPU usage limit, which, when reached, may result in the account being suspended.
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