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The central processing unit, or "processor". The thing that'll eventually *execute* all that code you're writing.

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Troubleshooting CPU Utilization Spikes on AWS ECS

Our production system has frequent spikes in CPU Utilization. These spikes occur even when the application does not have high usage. Here is an example of how we have CPU Utilization spikes frequently....
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How to track what causes high CPU usage on linux server?

I am running a normal Joomla website on Godaddy's ultimate hosting plan. There is only one site under this plan. From time to time, my website will be down and giving "refuse to connect" ...
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How do you know which plugin is consuming CPU?

My Wordpress site is going down from time to time, I see in the server log that wp-load is requested a lot, I blocked external requests to this file. But I still get 5xx error once a day, I have a lot ...
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Do VPSs guarantee resources (CPU, memory) ? Or are they like a shared host (in terms of resources) but you can also manage your own site?

Shared hosts usually don't guarantee resources, they just say unlimited bandwith and things like that and the performance is best effort. Is it different with a VPS? For example, it says 1 vCores, ...
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Estimate web app resource usage in preparation for understanding pricing for a cloud migration

I'm currently using VPS to host my web app which price is fixed per month. I read about cloud services such as Google Cloud Platform and their pricing is based on resources usage. How can I know how ...
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Do Google and others care how much CPU/GPU is used by the web browser to render a webpage?

Let's say that I have a hypothetical webpage: I have an absolutely positioned HTML5 <video> tag that is set to automatically play. It is sized to occupy the entire browser window and ...
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Apache uses a lot of CPU when image file is missing [closed]

I'm running MAMP on OSx as a development machine, and I noticed the past few days that httpd processes sometimes would use a lot of CPU, making the fans run high. The only thing that helps is killing ...
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What is CPU minutes (Web Hosting)?

When I ask a support from a web hosting company I receive this part. You can use up to 300+ CPU minutes without causing any issues What is the meaning of CPU minutes? How it calculate?
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100% CPU usage while stressing with SIEGE -c5

I've tried apache benchmark and siege for stressing my web server, unfortunately my VPS CPU goes 100% with only 5 concurrent users. I'm also using cache engine for my wordpress site. According to ...
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Really slow wordpress website admin panel with a total query time 1664ms for the home page [duplicate]

I have a problem with my WordPress website being too slow, I installed a debug bar to check queries in the home page, it reports 202 queries, and a total query time equal to 1665ms. The cpu and the ...
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How do I determine if I should ask for additional CPU cores on my web server?

I have a website that has approximately 300 users and I get about 1000 hits per day. Due to an upcoming event next week, there is a possibility of all of a sudden getting between 20 and 25 thousand ...
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How to reduce the CPU load on a hosting with WordPress installed as a CMS? [closed]

I have been using hostgators hatchling plan for three months. I got an email from the hosting that my website is creating an over load on CPU. They said that I am eating up their processor and as a ...
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Piwik Server Overhead

I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU/RAM? Does ...
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Check/Monitor Amount of SQL Queries per Hour [closed]

My website is hosted on a shared hosting and I'd like to know how much SQL queries it is using per hour. I tried to navigate through cPanel and I find nothing to check or monitor the amount of SQL ...
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Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server

Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users ...
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Analyze high load due to Joomla?

I have a Joomla site causing very high (php) load on the server. I have already ran the MySQL slow log feature and it doesn't appear to be MySQL. What are some ways to analyze a Joomla site to ...
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Better to get a host with more CPUs or less but more powerful

I'm evaluating some dedicated servers with the aim of possibly moving to them. One thing that is confusing to me is that there's a big price difference between servers with more CPU's compared to one ...
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Fix 500 error caused by maximum use of memory in cloud system

I am getting 500 error "Internal Server Error" when I type in my domain. I called customer service and they said that my site has reached it maximum use of memory and therefore the cloud system ...
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How is web hosting CPU usage measured?

Among virtual hosting providers, there is usually an amount of storage and bandwidth specified in the service description (example: 50 GB storage, 1 TB bandwidth/month) but no such thing for CPU usage....
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How to log the ASP pages requested during a particular time span?

I have a web application build in ASP and is hosted on IIS7 windows server 2008. Each day CPU level increases and the application stops responding (ASP pages don't load for ever, however an HTML page ...
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