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What are these hosting resources terms?
Below are some of the terms I found on shared hosting resources. What do they mean and what impact do they make on a website when comparing resources of different hosting companies?
- SSD vs NVMe SSD
- CPU - 100% vs 150%
- Memory - 1GB vs 3GB
- Entry Processes Limit - 50 vs 200
- I/O Limit - 10MB/s vs 80MB/s
- IOPS Limit - 4,096 vs 15,000
- INODES Limit - No Limit
- Email - Webmail vs Mailchannels Hybrid
- Object caching - Redis vs Memcached
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Did you ever buy(/use) a computer before? These ones are not particular to hosting, they just mean the same thing even for hosting, no tricks.
Google:
IOPS (input/output operations per second) is the standard unit of measurement for the maximum number of reads and writes to non-contiguous storage locations.
All copy pasted from google... I did not write anything myself. just highlighted your bullet points >right click > web search
This is when you turn the CPU up to 11.
Honestly, these are all marketing terms implying better performance than older hardware technologies. Those shared hosting providers want you to think that their hosting is better than their competitors.
It is not obvious to me that these factors translate well into determining the real world performance of shared hosting providers. There are many other factors involved, including the most basic - how many other customers/websites are running on that same server?
I would be looking more for customer experiences with the hosting providers you are interested in. Do you see complaints about performance? Customer service? Many problems and issues?
Here are my attempts at definitions for the terms you posted. I doubt they will help much:
As I said above, I would be looking at the providers' reputations for quality, performance, reliability, customer service, etc. Trying to compare them based on those "features" above may inform the decision or it may be an exercise in futility. They should not be the only factors you consider when choosing a shared hosting provider.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for doing his homework
I have done my homework on Google. But reading real life experiences in this forum (that's why I joined the forum) as explained by members like @emg above is much better to understand and decide than reading Google results 🙂
Thanks for your explanation. Found this chart. Seems like NVMe is way faster
I forgot but I saw 150% CPU on one of the shared hosting site.
I guess more RAM is better for Wordpress site. But I don't know if it is CPU or RAM that is important for a shared hosting to handle the number of visitors.
Saw Mailchannels Hybrid on @dustinc Racknerd post here
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182479/official-b-l-a-c-k-f-r-i-d-a-y-thread-community-endorsed-take-a-peek-racknerds-black-friday/p1
Which one is better for a WordPress site?
Hi @kidrock -- appreciate your interest in our services! This explanation should help: https://blog.racknerd.com/introducing-mailchannels-email-delivery-for-shared-reseller-hosting-clients/
simply, anything more is better for high traffic sites or for wordpress sites with many plugins.