I have a shared linux hosting account with a popular company. My sites go down sometimes several times daily for short intervals, or slow to a crawl. The biggest thing I have happening on any of the sites is an abandoned private SMF forum installation with <100 users (which I have since reinstalled to another host because of the disruptions) and a Joomla installation that is seldomly accessed. I have 7 email accounts that I use very lightly; 6 MySQL databases, mostly not used at this time. The service has improved somewhat over the past couple of months, but the problems persist, just to a lesser extent. Whenever I enter a trouble ticket, the situation is "fixed" within a few hours or days, but the same or similar problem occurs repeatedly. Because I do not understand exactly what the data is measuring, I do not know its significance other than the "lights" glowing yellow or red and the numbers and percentages getting high. When I report this to my host, they reply with answers that are fundamentally geared toward baffling me with BS rather than simply explaining what caused the problem. The problems frequently occur early in the morning (between 5am-8am) and late at night (between 11pm and 3am).
For example, the Disk /***/*** (/home) 90 % has been flashing yellow for the past several hours. There is nothing going on there there other than me being logged in to cPanel!
As you can see,
Disk Space Usage 456.64 Megabytes
MySQL Disk Space 17.36 Megabytes
Disk space available 4543.36 Megabytes
Bandwidth (this month) 58.77 Megabytes
I have only used a fraction of the disk space, bandwidth etc. that I pay for, so it isn't that causing the problem...
Personally, I think somehow I am being messed up by others sharing the server but I would like to understand HOW... If I am not and there is something about the scripts I am running causing these problems, I would like to understand so that I can mend my evil ways.
If anyone can explain briefly or direct me to a resource where I might learn about this, I would be most appreciative. I found nothing in the cPanel documentation that explains about the server status or the meanings of the values reported there. TIA for any help.
For example, the Disk /***/*** (/home) 90 % has been flashing yellow for the past several hours. There is nothing going on there there other than me being logged in to cPanel!
As you can see,
Disk Space Usage 456.64 Megabytes
MySQL Disk Space 17.36 Megabytes
Disk space available 4543.36 Megabytes
Bandwidth (this month) 58.77 Megabytes
I have only used a fraction of the disk space, bandwidth etc. that I pay for, so it isn't that causing the problem...
Personally, I think somehow I am being messed up by others sharing the server but I would like to understand HOW... If I am not and there is something about the scripts I am running causing these problems, I would like to understand so that I can mend my evil ways.
If anyone can explain briefly or direct me to a resource where I might learn about this, I would be most appreciative. I found nothing in the cPanel documentation that explains about the server status or the meanings of the values reported there. TIA for any help.