Resource Points Overview
A Resource Point is a measurement of how many hardware resources your account is using on the server. This includes CPU and memory usage.
Imagine your website as a car and our servers as a city you’d drive about in. The different streets you can take represent the plans the we offer. Each street has its own speed limit that you must obey, just as each plan has a Resource Point limit that you must follow. The Resource Points your site uses are akin to miles per hour and the graphs that show you your usage are just like a speedometer.
Just as in a city, you are accompanied by other people on our servers. As you drive through a city, you pay attention to other drivers on the road to avoid accidents which may harm yourself or others. The same thing goes for shared hosting: failing to recognize that you share the sever with other websites leads to poor site performance for your site and other customers’ sites.
When you first learn to drive, you’re likely going to stick to small side streets and parking lots. Controlled environments with low speed limits reduce your risk of injuring yourself or others. When you first create a website, you’re likely going to opt for the cheaper plans; you don’t yet require the increased resources better plans have to offer, and if your site doesn’t grow as you intended, you don’t want to risk a lot of your money.
However, just as a driver gains experience and starts outgrowing the roads they are practicing on, a site can also outgrow the plan they are on. When a driver gains experience and is more confident, they want to start going places. And unless they want a long line of angry drivers behind them, they usually need to start going faster. This means venturing outside their comfortable parking lot or neighborhood street, and on to bigger roads and highways.
As your site starts to demand more resources you will outgrow the starter plan you have chosen and will need to select a new plan that allows for the resources your site demands. More expensive plans provide those higher Resource Point limits that let your site grow, just like larger roads and highways allow you to travel at higher speeds and over longer distances to reach the destinations you need to go.
When we talk about “resources”, we aren’t talking about things like disk space and bandwidth which are not metered on most of our plans. Disk space and bandwidth would be more equivalent to what kind of car you are driving. Maybe you prefer a little 2-door car that’s sporty, or perhaps you have a family and a SUV suits your needs better. Maybe your site doesn’t use much disk space and is more like the little 2-door sports car, or maybe you do use a lot of disk space and your site is more like the big SUV.
The resources we are referring to are the processing power that is needed to display your site. These resources come from a finite pool, and when they run out, it causes your site and other websites on the server to become unresponsive or slow.
All roads require maintenance to support. The longer the road, the more traffic it gets, and the faster you’re allowed to go on the road, the more expensive it is for the city to keep up. This may not always be readily apparent to the driver, but their usage of that road directly translates to money required to keep that road serviceable. This is collected from the driver in forms like taxes, tolls, and car registration fees.
This same concept applies in web hosting, and can be hard to quantify and explain. To make this easier for our customers, we have created the Resource Point metric. Resource Points measure your impact on the infrastructure that you aren’t always necessarily aware of, just like a toll card attempts to quantify how much impact you’re having on the road infrastructure when you travel a certain distance. As your site grows and receives more traffic, or you implement more advanced features that require more processing power to present, your usage and impact on the server grows along with it.
Resource Points can be thought of as a measure of speed in a car. The faster a car goes, the more wear it is causing on the road beneath it, and the more potential hazard the car is to other drivers in the city. Just as there are speed limits on roads to reduce risk of injury and to help direct traffic to roads better suited for the type of travel, we place Resource Point limits on our plans to make sure that users are paying for the resources they demand and that they are sharing those resources fairly with the other customers on the server.
If you need to travel long distances in a car, you’ll likely want to go faster, which means getting on a highway and potentially paying an increased toll. Similarly, if you want to grow your site, you need to make sure you’re on a plan that can support it, which means potentially paying an increased bill to support that site.
Imagine your website as a car and our servers as a city you’d drive about in. The different streets you can take represent the plans the we offer. Each street has its own speed limit that you must obey, just as each plan has a Resource Point limit that you must follow. The Resource Points your site uses are akin to miles per hour and the graphs that show you your usage are just like a speedometer.
Just as in a city, you are accompanied by other people on our servers. As you drive through a city, you pay attention to other drivers on the road to avoid accidents which may harm yourself or others. The same thing goes for shared hosting: failing to recognize that you share the sever with other websites leads to poor site performance for your site and other customers’ sites.
When you first learn to drive, you’re likely going to stick to small side streets and parking lots. Controlled environments with low speed limits reduce your risk of injuring yourself or others. When you first create a website, you’re likely going to opt for the cheaper plans; you don’t yet require the increased resources better plans have to offer, and if your site doesn’t grow as you intended, you don’t want to risk a lot of your money.
However, just as a driver gains experience and starts outgrowing the roads they are practicing on, a site can also outgrow the plan they are on. When a driver gains experience and is more confident, they want to start going places. And unless they want a long line of angry drivers behind them, they usually need to start going faster. This means venturing outside their comfortable parking lot or neighborhood street, and on to bigger roads and highways.
As your site starts to demand more resources you will outgrow the starter plan you have chosen and will need to select a new plan that allows for the resources your site demands. More expensive plans provide those higher Resource Point limits that let your site grow, just like larger roads and highways allow you to travel at higher speeds and over longer distances to reach the destinations you need to go.
When we talk about “resources”, we aren’t talking about things like disk space and bandwidth which are not metered on most of our plans. Disk space and bandwidth would be more equivalent to what kind of car you are driving. Maybe you prefer a little 2-door car that’s sporty, or perhaps you have a family and a SUV suits your needs better. Maybe your site doesn’t use much disk space and is more like the little 2-door sports car, or maybe you do use a lot of disk space and your site is more like the big SUV.
The resources we are referring to are the processing power that is needed to display your site. These resources come from a finite pool, and when they run out, it causes your site and other websites on the server to become unresponsive or slow.
All roads require maintenance to support. The longer the road, the more traffic it gets, and the faster you’re allowed to go on the road, the more expensive it is for the city to keep up. This may not always be readily apparent to the driver, but their usage of that road directly translates to money required to keep that road serviceable. This is collected from the driver in forms like taxes, tolls, and car registration fees.
This same concept applies in web hosting, and can be hard to quantify and explain. To make this easier for our customers, we have created the Resource Point metric. Resource Points measure your impact on the infrastructure that you aren’t always necessarily aware of, just like a toll card attempts to quantify how much impact you’re having on the road infrastructure when you travel a certain distance. As your site grows and receives more traffic, or you implement more advanced features that require more processing power to present, your usage and impact on the server grows along with it.
Resource Points can be thought of as a measure of speed in a car. The faster a car goes, the more wear it is causing on the road beneath it, and the more potential hazard the car is to other drivers in the city. Just as there are speed limits on roads to reduce risk of injury and to help direct traffic to roads better suited for the type of travel, we place Resource Point limits on our plans to make sure that users are paying for the resources they demand and that they are sharing those resources fairly with the other customers on the server.
If you need to travel long distances in a car, you’ll likely want to go faster, which means getting on a highway and potentially paying an increased toll. Similarly, if you want to grow your site, you need to make sure you’re on a plan that can support it, which means potentially paying an increased bill to support that site.