How to avoid website crash or downtime?

Everyone have fears. Fear to let down our parents, fear of sweaty palms when holding hands, fear of awkward silences. But common for any website owner (and hosting client) is the fear of downtime. Tapping the address to your wonderful and popular website for your daily routine visit, to be slapped in the face with a not found-404 message. Here are the thing that may cause your site some serious damage and hourly downtime.

CPU-usage exceeded

When a majority of today's hosting customers do not have experience, money or common sense enough to stay away from quality-compromising and "unlimted bandwidth" hosting deals, a risk with shared hosting is exceeding your CPU-usage percentage. All is well and dandy, until one of your blog posts or articles hits the first page at Digg.com and your site is instantly flouded with traffic. What happened? Well, when signing up for that budget, minimum inclusive hosting account you clicked yes to the user agreement policy staing in small letters that if your website exceeds a certain percentage of the central processing unit's capacity, the hosting provide has the right of temporarily offlining your site. That's why? If you have big plans for your site and are looking forward to thousands of daily visits - go big. Get a dedicated server or a virtual one at least. Otherwise the transition between small site to popular site will be painful and almost certainly not without some downtime.

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Commented by: Kenneth, 14 December, 2008

Nice article!

Commented by: Richard Aguirre, 28 December, 2009

Not sure I got it all, but will ask my friend Google to lend me a hand.

Commented by: Terrance Fletcher, 28 December, 2009

I was hoping this would save me some time, but instead only raised even more questions. Time to hit big G now...

Commented by: Albert Cistrunk, 14 March, 2010

You would not believe how long ive been looking for something like this. Browsed through 9 pages of Google results couldnt find diddly squat. Quick search on bing. There this is.... Gotta start using that more often

Commented by: Jenae Braukus, 3 May, 2010

Thanks for this awesome tip.

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