FAQ

The Statistics Show Values in the Red Zone

Inside the cPanel interface, you can monitor the live resource usage of your webhosting package in real time.

Occasionally, you may see a resource bar turn red as shown in the screenshot below:

cPanel LVE resource usage statistics showing CPU in the red zoneSchematic illustration for explanation. The actual interface may differ.

It is important to understand that your account is not suspended when this happens. The indicator simply means that your package is momentarily utilizing 100% of its allocated resource limit.

Example: Running a WordPress Update

During a WordPress core or plugin update, CPU usage may briefly spike to 100%. When your CPU limit is reached and displayed in red, the web server does not terminate the update, instead, CloudLinux smoothly paces the process at your package limit until completion.

Once the update finishes, CPU usage immediately returns to normal.