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Here’s a little something which has been in my Drafts queue for almost 2 years. It hardly seems blog-worthy. Then again, I haven’t seen anyone else publish screenshots or discussion on either server status or throttling. Enjoy!
Bluehost server status
Did you know you can check your server status at Bluehost? Here’s what that looks like:
Note the date. Heh.
Bluehost CPU throttling
Are you a good neighbor on your shared hosting account?
Bluehost knows. Here’s why.
I met some Bluehost engineers at WordCamp SF 2011. Cool folks. Mostly Perl hackers, which is appropriate for a Linux-based service. Bluehost also sponsors Linux kernel development, and has contributed code to the time sharing capabilities for Linux. This allows Bluehost to enforce a “good neighbor” policy on all of their shared hosts. If your account reaches a certain level of activity, you will be throttled down.
This is a good thing.
For one, if you have so much traffic that shared hosting is always throttling down, you should be on a different hosting plan. For another, if you have very little traffic and you’re being throttled, you should probably inspect your installation. Something isn’t right, and you should probably fix it.
Here’s what throttling looks like:
You can find the link to the throttling charts in your Bluehost cPanel interface.
Any questions?
