What Are Entry Processes / Concurrent Connections?
Despite the wording implying connections to your site, the “concurrent connections” metric actually refers to the number of active processes on your account at any given time. These processes include:
- PHP processes
- Perl processes
- Cron jobs
- Any other script execution
Understanding the Limit
Section titled “Understanding the Limit”A single visitor to your website should rarely, if ever, consume all 20 connections. This metric is mostly informational and applies to the simultaneous processes your account can run at once. Under normal circumstances, each page load creates a process that completes in milliseconds.
If your account consistently hits the concurrent connection limit, it may indicate:
- Inefficient or long-running PHP scripts
- Too many simultaneous cron jobs
- A spike in traffic that creates many simultaneous requests