Hostway and Overselling

Overselling is obviously a fact of life with shared servers. I would argue, however, that Hostway, for the price they charge for their hosting services, doesn’t do as good a job as they should at managing the overselling of their servers.

In the past year, a site I have with them has twice run out of space WELL short of the allotment they claim I have available.

Fortunately there is the handy df command, and Hostway allows SSH access.

Here is the latest summary:

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             989M   80M  859M   9% /
/dev/sda2             251M   15M  224M   6% /boot
/dev/sda7             259G  245G  401M 100% /home
/dev/sda5             3.9G  378M  3.3G  11% /usr
/dev/sda6             3.9G  1.3G  2.5G  34% /var

Currently my site is using 1GB of it’s “limit” of 20GB of space! Obviously gonna be a problem since the home directory currently has only 400 MB of space left on it.

Joyent’s Accerators are looking better and better each day.

Saturday July 26, 2008