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I have an unlimited share hosting account with host gator which I have about 8 clients websites on including email accounts. Its currently on about 2gigs of disk space.

What I am wondering is exactly how unlimited is unlimited or when will it start becoming too much? Is 50gigs ok?
 
They will provide you direct answers, but unlimited is usually limited to simultaneous database connections. I have one account with a lot more than 50Gb with them on a shared package… Use them primarily for live production testing reasons.
 
The amount of space and bandwidth you have technically is usually unlimited with them. The one thing many ISPs that offer unlimited diskspace for example is Inode restrictions. The more inodes allowed the more files allowed. Too many files stored on their servers can create high diskio and probably cause issues for other customers aswell as yourself hence the restriction. It however will usually require you to stored 100s if not 1000s of live "normal" websites on your account before reaching that limitation.

That's my opinion :)
 
I have a shared hosting account with them that eventually went up to 1.8TB of disk before they complained.

There's a clause somewhere that says you cannot use more than 25% of any one type of system resource for more than 90 consecutive seconds - It was this that triggered the alarm on me.
 
Murmaider said:
http://www.hostgator.com/tos section 7 I think pretty much answers your question.
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That's not really extensive either.

On the left hand side of your CPanel check for "CPU" and beneath that "View Graph". This will show you a snapshot of your CPU usage over the past 24 hours including the "limits", when your CPU usage constantly overshoots the red (with at least 30%) they will warn you/shut your site down, which will affect all 8 clients.

Not sure about RAM since it's usually not that much considering the MySQL instance is managed by them, but if you have slow queries causing locks at load on the server, they will shut down the account and then warn you, affecting all 8 clients.

You have a 100 000 innode limit before they don't backup your stuff anymore, when you reach 1 million they warn you (not shut down the account)
 
where do emails stand in terms of innodes? To my understanding , 1 innode = 1 file on the webserver. does this mean 1 email in the webmailbox = 1 innode ?

My clients sites are small, mostly html and wordpress with the largest seeing about 200 hits a day.

I want to move a few other clients onto this hosting package who also have small sites but high email usage. gigs
 
virtualk said:
where do emails stand in terms of innodes? To my understanding , 1 innode = 1 file on the webserver. does this mean 1 email in the webmailbox = 1 innode ?

My clients sites are small, mostly html and wordpress with the largest seeing about 200 hits a day.

I want to move a few other clients onto this hosting package who also have small sites but high email usage. gigs
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That is correct yes, any file on the server is an innode, and that would include an email
 
AFAIK 1 email = 1 innode

I would recommend moving them to Google Apps instead for email, less headache for you when it comes to spam/space of the mailbox and maintenance etc
 
only prob is that google apps is no longer free :(

I'm not sure if i misunderstand the pricing but google apps seems pricey for small business?
 
virtualk said:
only prob is that google apps is no longer free :(

I'm not sure if i misunderstand the pricing but google apps seems pricey for small business?
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Do your clients pay you for the hosting? Or do you give it to them for free?
 
they pay for hosting but i never charged for google apps which was free and and nice extra addon. Like i said, most of my clients are small business and dont have big budgets
 
virtualk said:
they pay for hosting but i never charged for google apps which was free and and nice extra addon. Like i said, most of my clients are small business and dont have big budgets
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Okay.... so you charge for hosting. How much do you charge? Because R95 for a hostgator account where you want 8 clients on... you must be coining it then?

Small businesses that want email and web hosting.... that can't afford it... interesting. They don't want to spend money on it because it's not important? Then don't spend money on it. Easy decision really. Unless email is important to them, then I don't see why the hoo-ha about price.
 
AcidRaZor, I totally agree, unfortunately small business sometimes thinks more about price than what they are actually getting for their money, it should not always be about price (unfortunately most times it is) it should be about what the client is getting.
 
AcidRaZor, I dont know how much you charge your clients but I wish I had your clients if you can "coin it" from just 8 clients.
 
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