Entry processes explained

Entry processes are one of the most misunderstood resource limits, but the idea is simple: they are the number of requests your site can actively process at the exact same instant.

Think of entry processes as checkout tills in a shop. Each till can serve one customer at a time. If you have four tills and four customers arrive together, all are served at once. If a fifth arrives, they wait a moment until a till is free. More tills means more shoppers served simultaneously without a queue.

The important thing to understand is how short each "transaction" is. A typical page request is built and delivered in a fraction of a second, then the entry process is immediately freed for the next visitor. Because of this rapid turnover, even a modest entry-process limit can comfortably serve a great many visitors per minute.

You are only likely to hit this limit when many heavy or slow requests pile up at once - for example an uncached WooCommerce checkout under a flash sale, or a plugin that makes each page take several seconds to build. The requests hold their "tills" for too long, and new visitors have to wait.

The fixes are the same as for other limits: enable caching so pages are served instantly, optimise slow scripts, and upgrade your plan for more entry processes if your site is genuinely busy. Check your entry-process graph in the DirhamHost panel, or ask our team on support@dirhamaday.ae.