Resources & Limits articles

Resources & Limits 525 What you can host here: media, streaming, Windows and the limits Almost anything you put on a website fits on a shared hosting plan. What differs between providers is not the list...
Resources & Limits 305 "Unlimited": what really is unlimited, and what has a limit The plan tables carry columns that say Unlimited. The word is true in the sense that no counter stops you, but all...
Resources & Limits 441 The limits nobody advertises: inodes, processes and memory Disk space and traffic are the limits everybody compares before buying. In practice they are not the ones that stop...
Resources & Limits 251 Online radio or video: which plan, and why an ordinary hosting plan is not it An online radio station or a continuous broadcast cannot run on an ordinary hosting plan. A website hands a file to...
Resources & Limits 244 How many visitors can a hosting plan handle? Why the monthly total does not answer it There is no monthly visit count that suits everyone, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. What decides it is...
Resources & Limits 269 Preparing for a traffic spike: a campaign, a launch or a live event A traffic spike is not solved on the day: it is solved in the days before. What brings a site down in a campaign is...
Resources & Limits 298 CPU, RAM and disk I/O in plain words: what each one limits on your site On shared hosting your account lives in a compartment with ceilings of its own for processor (CPU), memory (RAM) and...
Resources & Limits 227 Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each...