What Do Limited Server Resources Mean for You

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Ultimately limited resources will lead to a slow website. It’ll be near impossible to speed up your site or improve your time to first byte. In addition, overcrowded servers will lead to outages. When too many sites are competing for the same limited resources a server it will go down, making your site inaccessible to visitors for an unknown amount of time.

2. The Hard Drive Conundrum
Server hard disks are usually more expensive than their desktop counterparts. This is because of their improved reliability, faster performance, and greater average life. Any hard disk is a degradable resource and thus has a mean life. This means that after the Country Email List specified lifetime, the probability of failure of the hard disk significantly increases along with the performance degrading below acceptable levels. In short, once the specified lifetime of the hard disk is over – it should be discarded.

But that isn’t the case with cheap webhosts. They’ll continue to use those  downtrodden hard disks (or even desktop grade hard disks). And it’s highly unlikely that they’ll ever make hardware upgrades a priority.





What is the Problem with Failing Hard Drives?
When a hard drive has reached its end of life it will fail, taking with it all of your site data! This results in corrupted or completely missing files. Meaning your site will be at best broken, or at worst completely down.

If you’ve maintained your own site backups you might be able to get things up and running again in a timely manner. But if you were hoping to use your host’s backups, these could be gone too. And to make matters worse, you may end up having to rely on the host’s support to try and restore your site (which can be trying if at all possible, as we’ll talk a bit later).