Why did I reach my limit?

[the_snake]

Hello everyone, today I’m experiencing a resource consumption issue, which seems strange to me because my website has very little traffic. According to the email I received, it’s due to the number of login processes, but it’s odd because, as I mentioned, I don’t have many visitors. This seems strange to me, especially since my analytics show I haven’t had many visitors today or yesterday.

Why might this be happening, admin? I know it will be reset tomorrow, but I’ve been receiving emails like this for several days now, telling me I’m about to reach the limit.

I’ve attached some screenshots of my analytics.

[Meishin]

In short: Entry Process limit is not strictly related to your visitors. A heavy site can hit the limit even with very few visitors.

What is an Entry Process and what does the limit mean

One of the limits InfinityFree enforces is the Entry Process Failures limit, also abbreviated to Entry Process limit or EP limit. This article explains what an entry process is, what the limit means and how you can control it. What is an entry process? Every time a request to a URL on your website is made, a new program is started to retrieve the content of that URL. This process then executes your code, sends the response to the visitor, and finally quits. Note that one entry process is creat…

And it’s Entry Process, not Login Process.

[the_snake]

With only 2 in one day? I don’t know, it doesn’t make sense to me. I understand the entry limits, but I don’t even use WordPress, just vanilla PHP, and I don’t make calls to external APIs. I don’t even handle server-side authentication with sessions. It’s still strange to me.

[Meishin]

A “request” is not a “visitor” nor a “pageview”.

A request is made everytime something is requested on your site. And this something is actually something, because 1 request is generated for every image, stylesheet, script… and everything. It’s not about curl requests you made with PHP.

So if one page needs to load 200 images and scripts to work, it will hit the entry process limit with merely 1 pageview or visitor.

And for record, your own statistics tool may not reliably track bots or visitors with adblock, so there might be more visitors than you would think of.

[Admin]

Please understand that Entry Process Failures are not a measure of visitors, page views, or even hits.

An Entry Process Failure is logged when there are too many concurrent requests going on, and a new request comes in. That request will fail (because all connection slots are already in use), and an EP failure is counted. When you have too many of those in a day, your account will be suspended for 24 hours.

It is generally caused by a combination of PHP scripts that take a long time to complete, as well as too many requests happening at the same time. Too many concurrent requests can happen if you have code that excessively refreshes the page in the background, or simply executes a lot of different PHP scripts for every page view.