StartLogic limiting MySQL usage
When you’re hosting with StartLogic, it’s important to know that the web host limits your MySQL usage. As in one of the latest notice released, StartLogic sets the bar at 50,000 MySQL queries per hour. Users who exceed the quota will be warned with an immediate notice (I suspect temporary account suspension might be the next consequences).
For your reference, here is the full version of the notice
MySQL QUERIES: 50,000 PER HOUR
To ensure optimum MySQL performance for all our customers, we are limiting the number of queries per login to 50,000 per hour and the duration of individual queries to 60 seconds.
This should not be an issue for the vast majority of customers — in fact, most customers will experience improved performance as a result of this measure. However, if you do suspect that you’re exceeding the query limit, log into your MySQL Management Tool, and if you’re over the limit, you’ll see a notice with more info.
We apologize for any inconvenience; however, on a shared hosting platform, there are practical limits to the amount of resources we can dedicate to individual customers. If this becomes an issue for you, you may be able to reduce the number of queries you are running by using application-level caching, combining queries or taking advantage of nested queries wherever you can.
My comment on this policy
Well calling this unfair on the limitations, StartLogic users should be happy that at least they are listing down the policy clearly.
It’s no secret that while shared hosting accounts nowadays are offered with unlimited bandwidth/disk storage, the hosting usage is limited by computer’s resources. In fact many other web hosts wouldn’t list down the policy clear and surprise their users with a sudden-suspend on their hosting account (due to overusing server resources).
Also 50,000 queries per hour should be pretty sufficient for most website. As said, the policy should not be an issue for the vast majority of customers; whereas, most customers will experience improved performance as a result of this measure.