Understanding Permanent Resource Boosts for Resold Accounts

When managing multiple client websites under reseller hosting plans, understanding and managing resource limits is crucial. Each account you manage has base resource limits set by default. However, the needs of websites can evolve, requiring more resources than what the base resource level provides. This article explains how you can leverage both temporary (free) and permanent (paid) boosts to accommodate these needs, ensuring optimal performance for the websites you host.

Understanding Base Resource Limits

Each website under your reseller plan is provided with predefined resources including CPU cores, RAM and other resources, as outlined in our Resource Usage Policy. These allocations are designed to meet the typical requirements of standard websites. However, should your hosted sites experience surges in traffic or demand greater processing power, you may hit these resource ceilings, which could lead to degraded performance.

Optimising websites to fully leverage available caching and other efficiency measures is crucial. This not only ensures optimal (faster) performance but also conserves resources, ensuring that they operate more efficiently and consume fewer resources.

For a thorough understanding of how to monitor and manage resource usage, and to take proactive steps towards enhancing the efficiency of the websites you manage, please consult our detailed guide on Understanding Resource Usage in cPanel.

Implementing Temporary Resource Boosts

Our Resource Boost feature provides a versatile solution to temporarily enhance the resource limits of a hosting account. This feature is particularly beneficial during unexpected traffic surges, such as promotional campaigns or seasonal peaks, when websites may require additional resources temporarily.

Temporary boosts are also invaluable if an account is currently at its resource limit and requires a buffer to maintain performance while longer-term optimisations are implemented. These boosts can be activated immediately and are available for up to 72 hours per calendar month, ensuring quick scalability. This allows websites to operate seamlessly during critical periods without the need for a permanent upgrade.

By using temporary boosts, you can ensure that the websites you manage are capable of handling increased loads effectively, providing a reliable user experience when it matters most.

Opting for Permanent Boosts

For websites that consistently reach their resource limits even after optimisation, a permanent boost may be necessary. These boosts are a paid option that upgrade the account to higher resource limits permanently, enhancing its capacity to handle more substantial traffic and more complex processes consistently. Below is a detailed overview of the different levels of permanent boosts available:

• Physical Resources: Increases the amount of physical resources available (such as the number of CPU cores and the amount of RAM)
• Database and Email Enhancements: Upgrades include increased MySQL database sizes, email mailbox sizes and number of hourly emals, supporting more extensive data storage needs and larger email operations.
• Increased File Storage: Upgrade the total number of files and folders each website can store.
• Advanced Caching and Search Features: Introducing advanced technologies like LiteSpeed Cache, Redis, Memcached, which can drastically improve response times and improve resource efficiency.
• Specialised Technologies: With higher levels of boosts, technologies like LiteMage Cache for Magento stores and Elasticsearch for advanced search functionalities become available, offering high-end solutions for e-commerce and large-scale websites that require sophisticated search capabilities.

The table below outlines the available permanent boosts, along with the associated costs:

Permanent boosts are a cost-effective way to scale resources as they prevent the need for migrating to a more extensive and potentially more expensive hosting solution, such as a virtual or dedicated server.

They are ideal for sites that have grown beyond the scope of what the default resource limits can accommodate, or where you need additional resources for more than 72 hours per month. 

When to Choose a Temporary vs. Permanent Boost

• Temporary Boost: Choose this when expecting short-term increases in traffic or resource utilisation. It's a cost-effective way to optimise resource bottlenecks or handle sporadic growth without paying for extra resources that you won't always use.
• Permanent Boost: Opt for a permanent boost when the sites consistently push the boundaries of current resource limits or where additional technologies are needed to improve performance. If your optimisation efforts have maxed out and the traffic levels are continually high, upgrading permanently ensures that the sites maintain optimal performance without frequent interventions.

As your managed websites grow and traffic increases, the primary strategy should always be optimisation. Efficiently utilising resources through strategic optimisations not only enhances performance but also ensures scalability. It's crucial to regularly assess and tweak website configurations, streamline code, utilise effective caching mechanisms, and optimise content delivery.

While temporary and permanent resource boosts provide a valuable tool for handling immediate needs and supporting growth, they should be considered supplementary. In many instances, thorough optimisation can substantially mitigate resource consumption issues, reducing the need for frequent boosts. Always aim to optimise first, turning to resource boosts as a secondary measure to support and maintain optimal performance as your clients' websites expand and evolve.

By focusing on these principles, you can ensure that the websites you manage are prepared to deliver excellent performance and user experience, even as demands increase.