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Web Hosting Solutions allows CGI to be used on all Virtual
Servers. CGI can be resource intensive however, and because
a Virtual Server must be shared with other users, we must
limit how much of the CPU can be used by any one account on
a shared server. There are several reasons why Web Hosting
Solutions has created its CGI Abuse policy for its virtual
server users.
What does Web Hosting Solutions consider "CGI
ABUSE"?
Any site whose CGI programs are using excessive amounts
of system resources. Excessive amounts is defined as any
amount that results in substantial degradation of server
performance. Web Hosting Solutions is the sole determinant
of what consititues degraded server performance.
Due to their use of flat files instead of databases, Web
Hosting Solutions does not allow the use of UBB or YABB
bulletin boards. Use of these boards for large or very active
forums, results in system performance degradation, and cannot
be allowed in our shared server environment. Web Hosting
Solutions suggests using VBulletin or phpBB as a more efficient,
database-driven alternative to these bulletin boards.
Why does Web Hosting Solutions have this policy?
Server Speed and Fairness to others
A Virtual Server is shared. As such, there are many accounts
per machine. In all fairness, Web Hosting Solutions cannot
allow one or two clients to use all of the System resources
on a shared machine and have all other clients on the machine
suffer because of it. Excessive CPU usage by one or more
clients causes extreme slowness in all areas: FTP, Telnet,
Web Sites and more. If the CPU usage gets too far out of
hand, all sites hosted on the machine will return Errors
and not be accessible in any way.
What happens if I violate this policy?
All accounts that are found to using excessive amounts of
system resources will receive an email warning from Web
Hosting Solutions. This warning will inform you that there
is too much CGI running and it will provide options for
reducing the usage or upgrading your server. If you do not
reduce the usage within 12 hours of the email being sent,
your CGI scripts will be disabled. |
