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READ AUP AND TOS
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as much as you want.
I'm more interested in what is generally considered acceptable, and less in the specific limits of a particular provider.
Like, what would you expect to be allowed to do if you bought a random VPS?
Most providers don't really define a hard limit in the TOS/AUP and just refer to some vague "fair use" limit.
At least 30% on low end shared (VPS), 100% on dedicated (VDS).
I'm pretty sure most providers will eventually kick you off if you pin your CPU usage to 100% on a VPS.
Good to know that it's allowed with your services :P
I think someone paying for a server shouldn't have to worry. If anything is wrong then really the company should just apply a cpu throttle on their end and notify the person about it so it doesn't interrupt anything.
i agree, i think thats way better than suspending the entire friggen server.
throttle the sever to stay within the fair usage limits if it detects very high average cpu usage over a few hours, then automatically lift the throttle when it detects the server isnt using 100% after a couple of hours or something.
And people wonder why the hypervisor went down…
Even way better: providers clearly telling front-up, right along with the promo!
But there's an ugly beast lurking in the depth: doing so either would quite clearly indicate the TRUE physical HWT to sold vCores ratio -or- risk of fraud (telling e.g. "50% usage 24/7" but actually putting 4 vCores per physical HWT would very likely be fraud).
So you'll continue to hear "fair use" ...
I think a low cost vps should allow an average cpu usage of around 30–50% over 24 hours. (should be stated somewhere for shared cpu)
The ideal setup is when the system automatically throttles the performance if the limit is exceeded instead of suspending the service and even better if it sends an automatic message to let me know the power has been limited.
What I respect even more is when the provider has an automatic system to remove the limit after some time.
The truth is, very few small providers have that kind of automation
Depending on the provider, but surely, there is a throttle somewhere unless that provider no nothing about the throttle features.
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