If it's in your contract then it's not only reasonable, they have no choice.

Not sure if 100% relevant, but I had a similar issue on shared hosting.
Turned out to be a problem with the cagefs and virtual memory not being configured correctly.
Cagefs is used to keep individual sites separate on shared servers.
Since they sorted out the misconfiguration everything has been working properly.
My problems were with virtual memory not the CPU, but I guess it could be a similar situation... Might be worth asking them to check it out.
Hth

@SpectralKH how? I'm happy with any other ad, but the winner one makes me want to kill people

You work in customer service don't you...

Barking!

Lift keyboard, slide wire under, put keyboard down...

@trogus

Comic sans was designed specifically for dyslexics, so it make sense to use it on signs...

Can't you just use a disk speed test to find out?

A berocca every morning for your b12 and some time in the sun for vit D.

@ImNotAlfred Did you tell him before you added all the extras that it would cost more? If not, then that's you missing out on the being honest part of the deal.

@epse politely, I disagree. I have lots of friends as clients (some friends before, some after)... Works well as long as you're honest with them.

Always answer that it's either X an hour, or X a page then it's up to them to work out what they want so they can find out a price.

Make the internet faster

I make my clients more money than they pay me.

@BugsBuggy get busy mate, use some of that laptop time to build one.

@akiroz India pale ale

Gets easier

Could be teamwork...

Makes easier to hack if everyone knows your user name

Set yourself up a website offering your services. Show some logos you've done etc.
Once you got that, get out and talk to local businesses, Facebook page, tell your friends, family, colleagues... Freelancing is all about getting the first job. Do an excellent job first time and word will get around.
Find local businesses with shit websites and offer to update upgrade. Local Facebook business groups are good too.
Anything that's more personal than fiver, freelancer etc gives you much more chance of getting something with a lot less competition.

125 a day extra for 2 hours travelling (assuming 48wks/5days a week). Not bad hourly rate. Depends if it pops you into a higher tax bracket, what the in office crowd are like, extra travel and food costs etc.

Just get started... You'll soon lose interest.

Excellent article mate.
Thought about submitting to some of the technology websites?
You make some really good points and with the he right audience, who knows...

Decide what you want to build and choose a language that suits it

Take your finger off SHIFT...

It's difficult I know. Try and learn from this one, have a figure in your head before you meet so you don't get flustered.
You'll probably do it a couple more times, but eventually you'll get there. I struggled with it for a long time, still undersell myself now and again.

Good work, at least you got it done.
Hopefully you'll earn a lot more in maintenance for them over the years too

:-D:-D:-D

Make something, if you make a clever something you might not need a job.