But recently I hosted a community site with a directory and a free Classified. These became a formula for disaster. It didn’t take long for them to suspend my site – citing the same CPU usage reason.

And I had signed up for 2 years thinking it was okay. I also signed up for another community site for 3 years (not yet launched!). I wish I had seen these postings before that!

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I spend a lot of money on my site and now
its getting me no where.

Once you ask for help, they will tell you the problem is not on thier part
and its mine, my coding and blah blah, which is i have been using the plugins or the coding since i dont even remember and now everything is wrong??? They really sucks.

Bluehost really sucks

Call me paranoid but I have a feeling they moved my account on another box – one that is oversold with customers falling out through its nose. I mean, how can performance shift the way it has almost over a weekend?

The account’s performance was pretty acceptable in February. While I occasionally got the dreaded temporary disabling due to excess CPU use, it didn’t happen too often. Page loads were decent even during peak hours. On off-hours, all my sites were running fast!

That all changed over the week leading to March. Starting Monday, I noticed page loads turning out unusually slow. I initially ignored it, thinking it was temporary – maybe some sites in the box were getting a surge in traffic. For the same reason, publishing a Wordpress post from the dashboard was such torture that I decided to forego posting on Monday. I resolved to just let the “temporary” problem slide and decided to postpone my posting for the next day.

Come Tuesday, problem stayed the same. Since I couldn’t hold off on posting new content anymore, I decided to suck it in and work with the slo-mo interface. After painful minutes of waiting for pretty much everything while writing my content, I hit “Publish!” Post went through although when I went to check how it looked like, I got the excess CPU use message.

Since that week up to now, my site gets disabled everytime I publish a post from the dashboard. I called up helpdesk to complain whose only answer was that my plugins was throwing my CPU usage into fits. I carefully pointed out that the last time I installed a new plugin was November of last year so anything wrong on that end should have made itself clear back then. Why are the problems occurring only this month?

In short, I never got any answer and was even, at one point, told to “find a different hosting service.”

The announcement elicited quite a chuckle inside our office, especially since Matt essentially admitted in the same post that the cap was placed so their old shitty servers could handle a ridiculous number of customers. He further claimed that since they’re now running on upgraded boxes, the cap was no longer necessary.

BlueHost claims up to 90% of the customers who used to suffer through the CPU cap will no longer be subjected to it. I’m inclined to think it is true because, as far as I can tell, all of my customers with their sites still with BlueHost are now seeing slower than usual performance.

I’m not kidding. With the large number of accounts BlueHost packs on its oversold machines now allowed more CPU leeway, page loads have become retardedly slow. While Matt basically wrote that post thinking it was supposed to attract people who were largely turned off by reports of massive CPU usage issues, it really came across to us something else. If you’ve been thinking of hosting with BlueHost, now is the worst time to do it, with their already overextended resources allowed to take even more abuse.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.