They won't shut you down for over-using resources. As a matter of fact you can't over-use resources, you can only use the resources you are given to you. I know they are different type of VPS, I am referring to Slicehost/Linode type VPS which has hard limit and acts very much like dedicated single box.
More important to me is that I am really really really surprised that Ycombinator was running on a shared account. This just blew my mind.
I have no hard feelings towards pear, I would have shut the site down too; possibly long ago.
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FWIW, It's probably not worth their effort of working out exactly what websites are using cheap shared hosting and overusing resources.
I don't get shared hosting at all. VPSs are dirt cheap these days.
VPSes are still shared hosting and are not immune from the problem.
They won't shut you down for over-using resources. As a matter of fact you can't over-use resources, you can only use the resources you are given to you. I know they are different type of VPS, I am referring to Slicehost/Linode type VPS which has hard limit and acts very much like dedicated single box.
More important to me is that I am really really really surprised that Ycombinator was running on a shared account. This just blew my mind.
I have no hard feelings towards pear, I would have shut the site down too; possibly long ago.
They limit memory at Slicehost but not CPU. I think you can still burst CPU for too long and they'd eventually tell you to upgrade.
But they are trivial to migrate between machines on demand.