Resource Usage & Limits articles

Resource Usage & Limits 394 Watching your site usage in real time over SSH The panel graphs tell you what happened. The command line tells you what is happening this second, and that is what...
Resource Usage & Limits 276 Disk Usage: finding what fills your account The account is filling up and you do not know why. cPanel has a screen built for this: Disk Usage, in the Files...
Resource Usage & Limits 268 Disk quota exceeded: what stops working when the account is full The short answer: every hosting account has a contracted disk space. When it fills up, the server stops writing:...
Resource Usage & Limits 279 Usage warnings at 75%, 85% and 95%: what our e-mails mean and what to do next The short answer: every plan has resource limits: disk space, number of files (inodes), CPU, memory, processes, I/O...
Resource Usage & Limits 254 Disk space nearly full on your hosting plan: what to delete first, step by step The short answer: when space gets close to the limit, start with what weighs a lot and is not needed: full backups...
Resource Usage & Limits 264 Too many inodes: cutting the number of files in your account without breaking it The short answer: the inode limit counts how many files, folders and e-mail messages the account holds, not how much...
Resource Usage & Limits 235 CPU usage at your plan limit: caching, bots and cron jobs that bring it down The short answer: when the CPU graph in Resource Usage runs along the limit line, three levers solve most cases, in...
Resource Usage & Limits 264 Reducing memory use on shared hosting: plugins, PHP settings and what to switch off The short answer: the account’s memory is the sum of everything running at the same moment: every PHP request, every...
Resource Usage & Limits 287 Hitting the entry processes limit often: when to optimise and when to upgrade The short answer: hitting the entry processes limit now and then, at a peak, is normal and clears by itself. Hitting...
Resource Usage & Limits 268 Too many processes running: stuck cron jobs and scripts, and how to clean them up The short answer: the number of processes limit counts everything alive in the account at the same moment: PHP...
Resource Usage & Limits 319 Disk I/O at the limit: backups, imports and big files that slow your site down The short answer: I/O is the speed at which your account reads from and writes to the disk. When it reaches the...
Resource Usage & Limits 255 Two limits reached at once: which resource to fix first and when an upgrade solves both The short answer: when two resources get close to the limit at the same time, they most likely share the same cause:...
Resource Usage & Limits 335 Checking resource usage in cPanel: CPU, memory, processes and I/O for your account The short answer: in cPanel, under Metrics > Resource Usage, you can see your account’s CPU, memory, entry processes...
Resource Usage & Limits 258 Reading the Resource Usage graphs: averages, limits and faults in plain words The short answer: each Resource Usage graph has three things: the average (the usage curve), the limit (the line...
Resource Usage & Limits 287 Your plan limits at a glance: where to see each one in cPanel and in your account The short answer: every plan has a limit for disk space, the number of sites, e-mails per hour, CPU, memory, entry...
Resource Usage & Limits 247 How much disk space you are using: the cPanel sidebar, Disk Usage and the usage page The short answer: there are three places, and each answers one question. The cPanel Statistics sidebar tells you how...
Resource Usage & Limits 259 Counting your inodes: how many files you have and which folders hold the most The short answer: the total is in the cPanel Statistics sidebar, on the File Usage line (in some versions, Inodes),...