Comments on: Shared Hosting is Awesome! http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/ one man's dawning realization that linux is waaaaay smarter than he is Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:56:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: command line idiot http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-108 command line idiot Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:06:08 +0000 http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/#comment-108 I've been emailing dreamhost support, and they're saying that they think it's an NFS problem with their file server. I'm up to about 15 days so far this year where my shared hosting sites have been unusable due to either hardware failure, poorly configured software (i.e. wild running processes that are allowed to choke the whole system) or overload. And they wonder why everyone is leaving? I’ve been emailing dreamhost support, and they’re saying that they think it’s an NFS problem with their file server.

I’m up to about 15 days so far this year where my shared hosting sites have been unusable due to either hardware failure, poorly configured software (i.e. wild running processes that are allowed to choke the whole system) or overload.

And they wonder why everyone is leaving?

]]> By: Steve http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Steve Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:20:23 +0000 http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/#comment-104 With that load I'm surprised you could do anything at all on the server ... Fortunately not all shared hosting providers put that many people on a server. For a refreshing experience try WebFaction or RimuHosting. They both put 100 people or less on a server and on mine the load is pretty much always below 1. With that load I’m surprised you could do anything at all on the server …
Fortunately not all shared hosting providers put that many people on a server. For a refreshing experience try WebFaction or RimuHosting. They both put 100 people or less on a server and on mine the load is pretty much always below 1.

]]> By: eliott http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-102 eliott Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:22:20 +0000 http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/shared-hosting-is-awesome/#comment-102 I used to use dreamhost too..and I think that value is very close to the highest I ever noted. I think I hit 288 load avg once. That means that there are 288 jobs (on average) waiting for cpu time. Generally they say you shouldn't have a higher load average than you have number of cpus. Maybe they will get those other 286 cpus installed one of these days. :) I used to use dreamhost too..and I think that value is very close to the highest I ever noted. I think I hit 288 load avg once.

That means that there are 288 jobs (on average) waiting for cpu time. Generally they say you shouldn’t have a higher load average than you have number of cpus.

Maybe they will get those other 286 cpus installed one of these days.
:)

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