[support] CPU usage

[Daniel Carrera]

Greg Knaddison wrote:
> A cheap VPS is $20/month and will likely solve the problem.

I am not a very good sysadmin and I hate sys admin work. I cry at the 
thought of having to configure Mailman (I have no idea how) or spam 
filters, or Apache, PHP and MySQL, or handle backup and recovery.

I speak from experience. I have been the sys admin of a non-critical 
Drupal site and I know I would not like to do the same for a mission 
critical site.

I chose this host as a way to get a balance between getting my fair 
share of resources while having someone else do the day-to-day admin 
work that I have neither interest nor aptitude for.


> Debugging a slow site on shared hosting is an exercise in futility.
> Regardless of the value you place on your own time, it doesn't take
> much time troubleshooting before a low cost shared hosting plan
> becomes a false savings.

I did not choose the present shared host based on savings. I chose them 
because they have the best reputation for excellent support and uptime 
that is second to none. So far they have lived up to their reputation. 
My support requests receive an intelligent and useful response in less 
than 2 or 3 minutes.

My top priority is reliability. I don't have enough confidence in my 
admin skills to believe that I can achieve better reliability myself 
than I can with United Hosting.

Daniel.