We really must quit meeting like this, 

I am on shared hosting with Host MDS, which means the server can easily be overloaded.  That was the case the other day.  What caused it or whom, I never learned.  But I suspected someone running scripts that hog the servers CPU. If a client is caught doing so, there is a penalty if not a disbandment or even having their account canceled and then they must purchase a higher volume account.

You are so correct on this and it is something that, needs to be looked in to by the hosting company, troubles like this are cause by my things like any site that may have too many people hitting submit buttons too many times because they are on a slow ISP, and some sites have chats and some with old type Java Chat boxes that really hog the CPU and Ram of the server.

The Host needs to isolate the hog and get them to change their method, but then again on a shared host you have to expect, times of over load..Because most host, not all but most will push them to the limit.

And as Jake and You Yourself mentioned , it needs to be reported every time it happens, so maybe they can pin point the abuser of Hog!

And If your paying more than around 7-10 per moth with a contract, you may want to consider changing, if you need help with this please let me know!

regards,
Maxx

Yes that sounds good...But you'll then need to get with them to see if they may help with the slowness and hang ups or overloads, they may upgrade, if enough complaints, bad news is bad news for them.

regards,
Maxx