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Understanding your usage limits

Your hosting plan comes with limits — CPU, memory, disk, and bandwidth. They’re not there to annoy you; they keep one busy site from slowing down everyone on a shared server (including you). Here’s what each one means and what to do when you get close.

Usage gauges for CPU, memory and disk with green, amber and red zones CPU 38% Memory 87% Disk 96% green = fine amber = getting full red = act now

What each limit means

  • CPU — processing power. High CPU usually means a busy app, a heavy plugin, or a cron job running too often. Sites get slow, not offline.
  • Memory (RAM) — working space for your apps. If you run out, processes can get killed (a PHP page errors, an app restarts).
  • Disk — storage for your files, databases, emails, and backups. When it’s full, new uploads fail, emails bounce, and some apps can’t even start.
  • Bandwidth — total data sent to visitors over the period. Big media + lots of traffic uses it up.

Read your usage in OrbixPanel

Open Metrics (or, for admins, Resource Monitor). Bars turn amber as you approach a limit and red when you’re over — so you can act before anything breaks.

What to do when you’re near a limit

Disk full (most common):

  • Delete old backups, logs, and unused uploads in the File Manager.
  • Empty your email trash/spam folders.
  • Remove old database dumps you no longer need.

High CPU / memory:

  • Check Cron Jobs — is something running every minute that shouldn’t?
  • Disable heavy or unused plugins; add caching.
  • Look at your app’s logs for an error loop.

Bandwidth:

  • Optimize/compress images and large files; consider a CDN for media.

Still not enough?

If you consistently hit a cap, you’ve simply outgrown the plan — ask your provider to upgrade (Support). Limits are per account, so hitting yours only affects you, never your neighbors on the server.

Good habit: glance at Metrics once a week. Catching “disk 85%” early is a two-minute cleanup; discovering “disk 100%” during an outage is a bad afternoon.

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