Media604 determines whether an account is using excessive resources by recording the number of processes your account uses. A processes is run each time a user visits your site or when a program is run by your account. The total number of processes that your site has run can be roughly determined by the number of visitor gets multiplied by how many processes a visitor takes. For example, a site with lots of dynamic content which queries a database several times and collects information from multiple locations will require a much larger number of processes then a site that serves simple html files to users. An example of sites that typically require a large amount of resources are forums and blogging sites using software like moveable type.

You can reduce the amount of resources that your site needs by reducing the amount of dynamic content that your site needs. For example, if you are using php, perl, or something similar to display pages without any dynamic content, you have apache serve those pages directly instead. Likewise, limiting the number of concurrent users that your site allows would also reduce the number of resources that your site requires.