The 10MB/sec limit is way too low to be practical. That was the transfer rate of hard disks 30 years ago.
We could set completely unrealistic time limits in the Fine Tuning section of the Configuration page for your backup profile such as:
- Maximum execution time: 1 second
- Minimum execution time: 5 seconds
- Runtime bias: 50%
This tells Akeeba Backup to work for about half to one second, then sit there for 4 to 4.5 seconds doing nothing. Instead of 15 minutes your backup should now take about an hour and a half. It this still triggers your hosting limits, set the minimum execution time to 10 seconds. Your backup should then take three to five hours.
If that's still a problem, look, my friend, your host is ripping you off. This is the first time in 15 years I have seen a host with data transfer per second limits. This was used 20 to 15 years ago when servers where using a single spinning hard drive which had very limited data throughput (thing low dozens of MiB/sec). The past 15 or so years the cost of storage fell precipitously. Servers started using multiple SAS hard disks (with throughput up to 250MiB/sec), then SSDs (throughput up to several hundreds MiB/sec), then NVMe storage (throughput in the several thousands MiB/sec), then SANs (throughput of many thousands MiB/sec, practically limited only by the physical network interface and logical network stack performance). That is to say, there has been no practical reason for a server to limit data read/write. I'd recommend moving your site to a decent host. Rochen costs under 13 Euros a month and does not have these silly limits. Papaki.com costs half as much, it has no limits, it's just less features in the basic package (no SFTP, 7GiB of storage) than Rochen. Both are very solid hosts I have used myself, both offer WordPress-optimised servers.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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