I have actually seen hosts that say that's all you get - no overages. I guess it's a way to discourage heavy use. But on cloud hosting where "time" is a billing factor, it also increases your bill since that 1 second transaction now takes 4 seconds. Nancy
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From: Afan Pasalic
as far as I know it doesn't work that way. 25% of CPU means 25% of the processing time belongs to you. even somebody on the same machine runs heavy report it will never take a 1% of yours 25%. also, I believe, if other sites are on "low ride", and you run some heavy stuff - you'll be able to boost to even 50% of CPU.