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As bloggers, we’re heavily dependent on seasonal traffic. Sometimes a single Google core update can cut your rankings overnight. When that happens, every dollar matters. That’s exactly what pushed us toward affordable VPS providers. We ended up with an 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM VPS. Before going further, here’s a quick question. When a hosting company says “8 vCPU”, what comes to your mind? Most people think, “Nice. I got an 8 core CPU.” Not exactly. A vCPU is not the same as a dedicated physical CPU core. In most virtualized environments, a vCPU represents a logical processor that the hypervisor schedules on the underlying hardware. Depending on the provider, those vCPUs may be shared with other tenants. Now back to the story. On paper, this VPS was more than powerful enough for WordPress hosting. Over the years we’ve used quite a few VPS providers, so we’ve learned that pricing is rarely just about CPU and RAM. The real differences usually show up in places like: – CPU scheduling and contention under load – Network quality and routing, not just “1 Gbps” marketing numbers – Storage performance and consistency – Overall infrastructure quality I’ve personally seen budget VPS providers throttle CPU performance or heavily oversubscribe nodes. That’s unfortunately nothing new in this market. But this time the issue was something completely different. I never expected H company to block legitimate visitors based on its IP reputation system. Real users couldn’t even reach our websites because their IPs were flagged. That wasn’t on my troubleshooting checklist at all that one day even signin to SSH would be impossible. They never provided us a list of blocked IPs and we had to manually beg them to unblock. Solution for such case If you ever run into something similar, the easiest workaround is putting your site behind Cloudflare Proxy. It just works. In our case, we wanted to keep performance high without paying around $30/month per domain for additional services. So we built our own solution instead. We already had another VPS running with a different provider. We deployed an NGINX reverse proxy in front of the affected server and routed traffic through it. Problem solved. It was one of those moments that reminded me hosting isn’t just about CPU, RAM, or benchmarks. Sometimes the biggest headaches come from platform policies you never expected to become part of your architecture. submitted by /u/Sad_Pie227 [link] [comments]

Looking for a sanity check from people who run reseller hosting. Setup: ~80 cPanel accounts on an InMotion shared reseller plan, mostly small WordPress brochure sites for local contractors. Been with them 10+ years. Same stacks running fine for 5-7 years, nothing changed on my end. A couple months ago all my sites started throwing intermittent 500s and database connection errors. Their advanced support diagnosed it: MySQL max_user_connections being exceeded (error 1203). They told me the limit can’t be raised on shared servers. I’ve already been down the optimization road – paid a developer to review and optimize the sites, and his conclusion after going through a bunch of them was the sites are fine, the environment is the problem. Months of troubleshooting on my dime. This week I finally got the full picture out of their support in chat, in writing: – My plan is a discontinued legacy plan running on older SSD hardware (their site sells “20X faster NVMe” to new customers) – The connection limit is 25 on ALL their shared servers, including the new NVMe ones – Upgrading to their top reseller plan (R-4000N) costs $932 for 2 years vs my current $695 renewal… and their own agent admitted it “may not resolve the issue” since the limit is identical – The R-4000N renews at $2,639/2yr after the intro term. $110/mo for shared hosting with a 25 connection cap. – No discount, no price match, nothing for tenure So their only actual fix is a VPS upsell (plus cPanel licensing on 80 accounts, lol). Plan now is to migrate everything out. KnownHost quoted me 100 MySQL connections per user on their reseller plans with published renewal rates, also looking at NameHero and Krystal. Questions: Is 25 max_user_connections as low as it sounds for shared reseller in 2026? What are other hosts actually giving? Anyone done an 80-account cPanel-to-cPanel migration – how painful was it really? KnownHost vs NameHero vs Krystal for this use case – real experiences? Anyone else watch InMotion decline like this or is my server just cursed? Not trying to trash them, decade of mostly fine service, but this feels like managed decline + teaser pricing and I want to know if I’m reading it right before I move 80 client sites. submitted by /u/jr_fury [link] [comments]

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Hey im using bunny but my problem is that when i upload a video mp4 its like 60mb and bunny makes it 1.5gb why is that submitted by /u/Fungyyy [link] [comments]