Saturday 13 July 2013

Choosing the size of your bandwidth pipe



 

Be wary of hosting providers that offer things like unlimited bandwidth,

domains, and disk space. That is a great selling point, but what they don’t

tell you outright (you may have to look into the fine print of their agreement) is that although they may not put those kinds of limits on you, they will limit your site’s CPU usage.


 


 


 


 


 


 

 

 

CPU stands for central processing unit and is the part of a computer (or

Web server in this case) that handles all the data-processing requests sent to your Web servers whenever anyone visits your site. Although you may have unlimited bandwidth to handle a large amount of traffic, if a high spike in traffic increases your site’s CPU usage, your host will throttle your site because they limit the CPU use.

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