server:How to know if your hosting provider is overselling on your server?-R&D26012012

To check whether you are one of the victims that are dwelling on oversold web hosting servers, you need to have SSH access to your server. Now perform the following commands:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l

Which will usually return the number of the CPUs of the current server:

2

Then, display the server load by

uptime

Which outputs a single line of information concerning the server load and how it is doing its jobs:

08:44:12 up 11:09, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 2.37, 2.09

Now you’ve got the data you need to calculate the server oversellingness.