When a visitor opens your site, the Internet browser sends a request to the web server, which in turn executes it and provides the required data as a response. A standard HTML Internet site uses minimal system resources due to the fact that it is static, but database-driven platforms are more requiring and use a lot more processing time. Every page which is served creates two sorts of load - CPU load, which depends on the time period the hosting server spends executing a certain script; and MySQL load, which depends on the amount of database queries generated by the script while the user browses the website. Larger load shall be generated if a considerable amount of people browse a given site simultaneously or if numerous database calls are made at the same time. 2 good examples are a discussion board with many users or an online store in which a customer enters a term inside a search box and a large number of items are searched. Having detailed statistics about the load which your Internet site generates will help you improve the content or see if it is the perfect time to switch to a more powerful kind of web hosting service, if the site is simply getting quite popular.

MySQL & Load Stats in Cloud Web Hosting

Using the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all our cloud web hosting plans, you will be able to see really comprehensive stats concerning the system resources that your websites use. One of the sections will give you details about the CPU load, like the amount of processing time the server spent, how much time it took for your scripts to be executed and how much memory they used. Stats are consistently provided every six hours and you can also see the different types of processes that generated the most load - PHP, Perl, etc. MySQL load statistics are listed in a separate section in which you could see all the queries on a per hour, day-to-day, etcetera. basis. You could go back and compare stats from different months to find out whether some update has altered the resource usage if the total amount of website visitors hasn't changed much. In this way, you will see if your website needs to be optimized, that'll give you a better functionality and an improved user experience.