Today, my blog host suspended my account without any notice—claiming that it was using too much of the CPU resources. It gets about 6,000 unique visitors per day, which isn’t really that much. Lots of people post and read the comments.

I’m curious. Has anybody else had this happen?

While I’m at it, any hosting suggestions? I need about 100Gb of bandwidth per month, and looking for something less than $75 per month.

J-Walk Blog—now dead.

i can’t believe the problem is the pmachine software. i have been using pmachine pro ever since it was introduced without any problems and I am also hosted with pmachinehosting. also, sites such as ipodlounge, which count their readers in the millions, use pmachine pro. i assume without incident. as does Always On, unless they have switched recently. my guess your problem is actually with your web host, though I am not an expert on those issues and someone else would be more qualified to address that kind of thing…

with that said, i saw on your blog you plan to move over to wordpress. Considering they are no longer developing pmachine pro, I certainly can understand you making that move at this time. especially, if you do not want to pay for EE. frankly EE is aimed, i think, at a different market than the casual blogger. As a pure blog tool, wordpress is probably a better solution. i wish they would make pmachine pro open source, but I guess they may feel it would eat away at EE sales. oh well…

as for web hosts. i use a service called www.lightningservers.net for non-pmachine sites…

If you are considering moving to WordPress, you might want to be sure that you’re not jumping from the frying pan into the fire. From a posting on Shelley Powers’ BurningBird weblog:

In the last two weeks, two Wordpress weblog sites have had their sites suspended or moved to interim servers because of performance issues. ... Ampersand’s site, Alas, a Blog gets between 1000 and 2000 visitors a day.

J-walk

i have the same problem.
it’s not such important how many users u have/per day. it’s more important how many users are at the same time. (or in my case ... overloading are cause by googlebots visits). when Gbot visit my site and open archive pages (btw ~18 000 articles are on my site), my server load increase to 80-104. so as result .. site overloading.

btw .. what’s ur db size?

and pls understand 2 different things.

bandwidth limit and CPU resources. u may have 200gb limit, but if ur site is hosted on 256mb ram PC, or there are a lot of sites on the same sharing hosting, u must use a lot of resourse.

what i did.
at first i move my site to VPS account (256mb RAM, 100gb bandwidht limit.)
still oveloaing
upgrade to 512mb ... every time gbot visit my site, site was overloaded.

after this i hire programmer, who create caching for my site.
once a day i upgrade my site (after this i delete cache) and site look likes as static site.

in my case (db size 70mb) i need something ~20-40mb space to store my cached files.
but as result i get ... 0 overloading and static pages. (fast loading)

that’s all !