Some documents load slowly during stress test, how reliable is NameCheap shared hosting?

Question

I have hosted a NodeJS React application into my NameCheap shared hosting account. My Apache Benchmark giving this output while I am trying to stress test my site:

ab -n 100 -c 5 -C "somecookie=rawr" http://example.com/

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1807734 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking example.com (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        example.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        931 bytes

Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   19.073 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      133200 bytes
HTML transferred:       93100 bytes
Requests per second:    5.24 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       953.661 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       190.732 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          6.82 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:      296  434 207.9    409    1461
Processing:   303  493 318.0    413    1893
Waiting:      303  493 318.0    413    1893
Total:        599  927 392.8    814    2358

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    814
  66%    889
  75%    911
  80%    917
  90%   1573
  95%   1928
  98%   2253
  99%   2358
 100%   2358 (longest request)

My question is are this information correct? When should I be worried with shared hosting regarding bandwidth traffic limit?

Answer 1

Nothing stands out as worrisome to me in your test results. Of note is that some of your requests take well over a second to load, but that is to be expected on any very cheap shared hosting provider.

Regarding the bandwidth limit, that is an internal NameCheap policy as the soft-caps for "unlimited" plans vary by hosting provider. Unless you are running a very popular website that serves very large files (consistently on the order of gigabytes per day), I would not begin to worry about the bandwidth metering on NameCheap's "unmetered" bandwidth plans.