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Hello everyone.... I host with Vexxhost on one of their "shared" plans. My site has been with them for aprox 5 months and each month I have used almost exactly 150gb of bandwidth and usage has not increased. This week I received an email from vexxhost stating that my CPU usage was above what was reasonable for a shared account and that I would have to upgrade to a 19.99/month plan within 48 hours or face shutdown.
I'm not trying to argue that I might be using more than $3/month worth of web hosting -- I probably am, but they have offered to provide a certain service for that price and are now saying I am using more than my share. When I asked why the cpu activity has increased when traffic/bandwidth has not they just replied that by using that much bandwidth I am taxing the cpu resources too much. I'm using less than 25% of the bandwidth they have offered to provide and my usage is not peaky at all. It's also a pretty basic WordPress site that shouldn't be all that server-intensive.
Should I just grit it and pay to upgrade? Should I decide this is just a money-making scam and move on to another host?
Thanks.
I'm not trying to argue that I might be using more than $3/month worth of web hosting -- I probably am, but they have offered to provide a certain service for that price and are now saying I am using more than my share. When I asked why the cpu activity has increased when traffic/bandwidth has not they just replied that by using that much bandwidth I am taxing the cpu resources too much. I'm using less than 25% of the bandwidth they have offered to provide and my usage is not peaky at all. It's also a pretty basic WordPress site that shouldn't be all that server-intensive.
Should I just grit it and pay to upgrade? Should I decide this is just a money-making scam and move on to another host?
Thanks.
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