How Many Sites Are Too Many For HostGator Shared

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Staccs

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I'm currently paying $9 a month for HostGator's Baby plan which allows for unlimited domains. Right now I've got 2 sites hosted on that plan but may have as many as 4 more additions (for 6 sites total) in just over a month.

At what point do I need to look to upgrade, and what/where do I upgrade to?
 


Nobody else on hostgator cares how many sites they have, why should you?

Well the main thing is bandwidth and storage. You can watch that yourself.
 
Drake said:
Nobody else on hostgator cares how many sites they have, why should you?

Well the main thing is bandwidth and storage. You can watch that yourself.
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I see what you mean :D

According to the plan I get unlimited bandwidth and storage, so if I use your suggested mentality I don't have much to worry about until things start slowing down.
 
Drake said:
Well the main thing is bandwidth and storage. You can watch that yourself.
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Main thing is not bandwidth and storage, it's cpu and memory usage.

If you go over 25% on either of them, they disable your sites and you have to wait for at least an hour before they answer your ticket.
 
Hypnotic said:
Main thing is not bandwidth and storage, it's cpu and memory usage.

If you go over 25% on either of them, they disable your sites and you have to wait for at least an hour before they answer your ticket.
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^^This. They disabled one of my sites recently because it would take up more than 25% of the cpu when someone visited (because it was an autoblog that would check for new posts whenever a visitor came).

What pissed me off is that they disabled it on the first day of a 3 week vacation and I didn't notice for a couple days. They only disabled that one site though. I couldn't find a way to reduce the CPU usage even with cache plugins and stuff so I just deleted the piece of shit.

But aside from that one huge autoblog with tons of feeds coming into it, I have around 50 sites on there and there's no problem. Some load a little slowly unless I use a caching plugin on wordpress though.
 
You really have to monitor CPU and memory usage and it all depends on the traffic your sites are getting.If it is getting too slow to load your site and you are making money then move on to another host or get another plan from them.

Just my 2 cents!
 
sumjo said:
You really have to monitor CPU and memory usage and it all depends on the traffic your sites are getting.If it is getting too slow to load your site and you are making money then move on to another host or get another plan from them.
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For sure. I would have done that with my site, but it was making almost no money anyway.
 
sumjo said:
You really have to monitor CPU and memory usage and it all depends on the traffic your sites are getting.If it is getting too slow to load your site and you are making money then move on to another host or get another plan from them.

Just my 2 cents!
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I came in here to say exactly this.
 
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