Every SpeedyPage Web Hosting and WordPress Hosting account runs on CloudLinux with per-account resource limits enforced by LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environment). The Resource Usage page in cPanel shows how much of each limit you’re actually using.
Open resource usage
Log in to cPanel through your client area or at yourdomain.com/cpanel. Go to Metrics and click Resource Usage (also labelled CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage).
What each metric means
| Metric | What it measures |
|---|
| CPU | Processor time your account has used. Measured as a percentage of your allocated CPU cores. |
| Physical memory | RAM consumed by your account’s processes. Includes PHP workers, MySQL connections from your scripts, and any running cron jobs. |
| I/O (throughput) | Disk read/write speed in MB/s. High I/O usually comes from database queries or large file operations. |
| IOPS | Number of individual disk read/write operations per second. |
| Entry processes | Concurrent connections entering your account — each PHP request, SSH session, or cron job counts as one. This is the most common limit people hit. |
| Number of processes | Total processes running under your account at any point, including background tasks and child processes spawned by PHP. |
Reading the graphs
The interface shows two types of data for each metric:
- Current usage — a real-time snapshot of how much of the resource your account is consuming right now.
- Faults — the number of times your account hit the limit during the selected time period. Each fault means a request was delayed or denied because the limit was reached.
You can view data for the past 24 hours, the past week, or the past month. A small number of occasional faults is normal during traffic spikes. Sustained or frequent faults mean your account is regularly exceeding its limits.
What to do when you’re hitting limits
If you’re seeing faults regularly, here are the most common fixes:
High entry processes or number of processes
- Enable LiteSpeed caching (LSCache) if it’s not already active. This reduces the number of PHP processes needed to serve your site.
- Check for slow PHP scripts or plugins that keep connections open longer than necessary.
- Make sure cron jobs aren’t overlapping — a job that takes longer than its schedule interval will stack up processes.
High CPU usage
- Look for unoptimized database queries, especially on WordPress sites with many plugins.
- Disable plugins you’re not actively using.
- Use object caching to reduce repeated processing.
High memory usage
- Lower the PHP memory limit per script if you’ve set it higher than needed.
- Check for memory leaks in custom code or poorly written plugins.
High I/O or IOPS
- Enable database query caching.
- Reduce the frequency of cron jobs that read or write large amounts of data.
See resource limits for the exact CPU, memory, and process limits on each plan tier. If you’ve optimized your site and still hit limits, upgrading your plan is the next step. When your account reaches its entry process limit, new visitors see 503 errors until existing connections finish. This is the single most common cause of intermittent downtime on shared hosting.
