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BetterLinux is finally released. This new software product makes linux better by allowing a system administrator to be in complete control of the linux system.

You no longer have to let out of control cpu or disk I/O intensive processes take your system down or slow down other users or more important processes. You can also set alarms that tell you when certain processes or users exceed specified cpu, I/O,memory, processes limits, and many other system activities.

Database admins will be especially pleased to know that BetterLinux can now detect and deal with abusive MySQL queries so that no individual MySQL users/dbs can negatively impact the performance of any server running the software.

Shared server, dedicated server, VPS or even a cloud server, this tool works. Now you have the ability to set IOPs (I/O operations per second) or exact disk bandwidth limits per user or per process. You can also allow bursting to ensure that 100% of the cpu and disks are utilized if you would like it be. It also works great for local storage, network attached and virtual network devices such as NFS, ISCSI, etc. LVM is 100% supported as well.

See intallation guide here.

BetterLinux is currently free until 2013.

Does this happened to you before ?!

The domain yourwebsite.com has reached its bandwidth limit.

Please contact the system admin as soon as possible.

This could commonly happen to websites many years ago. But ever since many webhosts offer unlimited bandwidth web hosting. “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” has become history !

If you still attached to hosting that offer limited bandwidth like 1GB a month, 10 GB a month. Mostly like you are attached to a hosting reseller. Reseller are small hosting company who buy 1 hosting account from a supplier and cut into pieces before resell it to their customer.

1) Move to other host
If you uses lots of bandwidth, you should consider move your website to a first tier web hosting company who has full control of their datacenter and hardware.

Most first tier shared web hosting offers unlimited bandwidth with “fair usage” condition in their T&C. While dedicated server hosting has better “guarenteed bandwidth”, which means if you have been given 300GB, you will have it but not more than that or you have to pay.

2) Contact existing host for a free bandwidth upgrade.
Call, email your host for immediate bandwidth upgrade, for free !. This is the easiest way, your website can up can running immediately. Usually some 10GB ~ 50GB bandwidth cost almost nothing to your hosting reseller, if they charge you handsomely, consider switch to other host.

3) Remove videos, large files.
Check your log file, if you have a very large video files or any files that take up a lot of your bandwidth, consider move to some file sharing website. Moving those large files to file sharing sites has many advantages, including a) Faster download b) unlimited bandwidth c) some are free d) some pays you for offering many downloads.
Don’t forget you have a friend who is video friendly, http://www.youtube.com  :)

Anyway, having bandwidth exceeded is a good news, that means you have more visitors to your website now! Consider switch to other host if you have to !

Bluehost has change their plan mid Feb 2011, the changes are as following

• Sign-up 1 to 3 years at $4.95/month via this link
• Free domain for life has been terminated, instead you are giving free domain for 1st year only. There after $10 per domain per year applies.
• Free google adwords credits increased from $50 to $75, applicable to US only.
• PHP 4 has been deprecated and no longer available.