Bursting at the seams

If you were to check the sta­tis­tics for your own blog or web­site, and depend­ing on whether you had writ­ten about the lat­est thing on the inter­net, you might find some­thing like this:

Which may lead to your host­ing provider writ­ing you some­thing like this:

Hello I am writ­ing to let you know that I had to dis­able your site or
ser­vice on your account. I did this by renam­ing it with a _1 at the end,
you have been using more then your fare shar of cpu min­utes and that is
impact­ing other cus­tomers sites. you are cuurently using

95.49cp

when only 60cp per­day are allowed, please look over your site or ser­vice
to try to lower your cpu usage before renam­ing it back.

And you reply­ing to them:

Dudes,

You can­not be serious!

At least have the decency to write to me first before dis­abling it! I

have no idea what is going on or how to bring down the cpu minute

usage besides tak­ing down large media files.

I’ve taken down some lar­gish media files (.mov) and installations

like joomla and wiki. I don’t think there are any other installations

that con­tribute to the cpu min­utes. But what you have done is

ter­ri­ble. You suck!

And you remove some files, and they write back:

Hello,

If you would like more cpu usage you can always upgrade. Feel free to
email with any other questions,

Thanks,

Heather

Things seem nor­mal for a few days, and then they write again:

Hi Ben,

sorry about this but were going to have to suck again because we had to
dis­able your site because of cpu usage… Thank you for try­ing to lower
your usage but it appears it was all for not as you are using more now,
you are cur­rently using

240.78cp

Please read what we have on the wiki about cpu usage, it has some
infor­ma­tion that can help you lower your cpu usage,

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/User_resource_reporting

Oh and one more thing if we really sucked we would turn the sites off and
make you con­tact us before you were able to turn them back up so again
try and be a lit­tle more polite as we are try­ing to be help­ful here

Thanks!

Javier

And then I write back:

Thanks for that, what do I do now?

No, seri­ously, what can I do to bring down CPU usage? What?

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