What is CPU quota?

[Rodrigo]

Hi, I started using Blue Host recently and don't have my site indexed by SEs yet (I'm just "testing" it). I've read a lot of posts about CPU quota but don't really understand what is it.

My website has adsense, youtube and google-videos code in some pages. Other pages will have jpeg pictures. The rest is plain HTML.

I expect to receive 10-15K monthly visitors during the first months and over 100K monthly visitors after 6-12 months. Should I be concerned about this CPU quota? Is there some guide or tutorial with advice on how to prevent that from happening?

Thank you very much,

Rodrigo

PS. Please forgive my English, it's not my native language. I'm from Bolivia.

[charlesgan]

login to cpanel and there is a errorlog sction.
will get the hint on the error

you can choose to upgrade to higher cpu server if needed.
and will cost about $20. contact support or sales to confirm

[Rodrigo]

Thanks for your reply Charles. However, I don't have any error. I just want to know what it is CPU quota and what should I do to prevent it from happening.

Rodrigo

[Pethens]

None of the things you are doing are really CPU-intensive (and Google Video and Youtube don't even use Bluehost bandwidth), so you have no reason to worry about serving 15,000 visitors per month. In fact, I expect that 100,000 per month would also be just fine. You may run into problems if you install a forum or photo gallery written in PHP, or one of several other projects that are real CPU hogs. If you have programming skills, write your own scripts or audit the scripts you install to make sure they use the database efficiently.

[Rodrigo]

Thank you very much

[starjou]

Where can I check my CPU quota, and how much CPU time I used? Can't find it on the control panel. and I build a web game site, how to check how many user can visit at the same time, how much is the instanct bandwidth limit? So I can calculation what packge I need to buy for the mount of player I wanna serve .. thanx.

[charlesgan]

at bluehost cpanel, scroll the way down, you will found the "Stats / Logs" and in it is the error log

on the cpanel main page, left side. find the "service status"
you will see the whole server load etc

[hofmax]

Is your website heavily reliant on dynamically created content via PHP and MySQL? If so how effective are your MySQL queries they should all be executed in well under a second otherwise you may run into problems when your site experiences heavy loads.