I thought this was a little restrictive. I was curious to know what sort resources limits other monks had seen on virtual web hosting providers and what they thought was "reasonable".

I've seen similar restrictions (2 CPU seconds or 15-20 clock seconds). In my opinion, when you are on a shared system with a typical $25-$50/month account, those limits are quite reasonable. They help ensure a minimal level of service to others on the box.

If you're doing something with a CGI that takes more than 2 CPU seconds, and have already carefully considered your algorithms and partial-result caching, you ought to consider getting onto your own box, if only out of fairness to others.

My opinion. YMMV.

In reply to Re: Webhosts: What are reasonable resource limits for Perl? by dws
in thread Webhosts: What are reasonable resource limits for Perl? by Davious

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