Howdy folks,

We're having a sittuation here with our hosting firm, Lunarpages. Yesterday they've informed us the following:

"Currently, your plan allows for no greater than 10% top
processes and 1% average CPU usage. Also, we do not
allow the use of movable type on our servers because it is
often a high resource item."

Then they go ahead and list our MT.CGI eating up 42% of CPU time on a quad processor machine. (!!)

MovableType, a high resource item?? On the contrary, I'd say it is less CPU-intensive than PHP-based tools, which run scripts all the time as opposed to MT, which creates HTML pages.

Lunarpages are also warning us:

"Please make a decision on how you would like to proceed
within seven (7) days. After seven (7) days, your account
will be suspended if no other arrangements are made."

A search on Google revealed lots of similar cases. :-(

Given Lunarpages is such a large ISP, I'd say this is a serious issue for discussion.

So, what to do? Other people in the same sittuation?

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

Vlad

Move to Hosting Matters or textdrive. Lunarpages are assholes.

Probably due to comment spam. If they hook up to an open commenting system the resources of the server can be hit hard. It has to be that, perhaps the root of the hosts complaints from the past.
Use typekey (yuk), or an alternate commenting system.
Best option move hosts, they sound inexperienced. Contact me for the best one.