I was wondering if people could tell me currently how many unique visits a month their shared account is getting TOTAL without getting any problems. Meaning if you have a multi-domain account, how many visits are you getting combined with all sites for that account and not having any problems. Please tell me if your sites are database intensive or not(forums, blogs, video) or mostly html pages. Id especially like to hear from those who are on hostgator cause im currently hosting multiple domains on their hatchling plan and want to make sure they can handle my traffic for the forseeable future.
2 years ago I was hosted at 1and1 - when I reached approximately 2% of my contracted traffic - they kicked me out for using too much resources ... I had some 4500 uv/d at that time. thats fine because now I have my dedicated server since 2006 and have multiplied my daily traffic x 3-4 since. also with the 4500 uv/d you actually earn sufficient adsense $ to afford a quality server! hence a regular host allows suffcient traffic until you are ready to STEP UP to a dedicated server !!! just be prepared by that time when you reach several thousand uv / d to know your own server by having an identical OS offline NOW.
Thanks for your post. I'm getting about 25K unique visits a month so quite a bit less then you had, but its all database intensive sites(wordpress and smf forum).
Well like 70k/month and growing Hosting zoom doesn't say nothing and i esxpect them not to say untill i reach like 300k/m
cool. as long as your not doing any kind of social networking manipulation with Digg etc, can one say that most shared host should be able to handle 100,000 unique visits a month (at the very least)?
Id like to hear more responses, maybe this thread can help find out what kind of hosts way oversell too.
A couple of my sites are now experiencing a big acceleration in traffic due to the recent google updates so now I'm a bout probably at the pace of 50K Unique visits a month total on my account across all domains. All my sites are database driven so it concerns me that I may be getting near my shared hosting limit on hostgator. Id like to hear more replies from people on what traffic they are getting, to find out how much estimated "wiggle room" I probably have left for my account.
Well if you do experience problems then transfer to ANHosting. I use them and they are wicked, never had problems and I host 20 database driven sites with them and have done for 3 years. Their support is second to none. Web-Master
Thanks. Ill bookmark them for future reference. They have fantastico which is a must for me. I assume then they are using cpanel on Linux right? I tried to use their cpanel demo and it wouldn't work. When they say 20 domains they are talking about add-on domains right? Cause some hosts say add-on domains and they mean subdomains.
A lot. However, the key to this is more dependant on your web host, and their terms. I have had shared hosting in the past for large sites who had a ton of traffic, and was fine. But I have heard stories from others who get closed down for a fraction of that traffic. (I have dedi now).
thats why I was hoping I would hear some from hostgator too. They are the biggest hosting company right now. Hostgator says 6000 GB of bandwith, but of course that is a lie. At this rate im gonna be at 100K uniques and beyond very very soon and I don't think hostgator could handle it on a 100$ for a year plan.
From what I seen this is mostly caused by people who use social networking methods to get a huge surge of traffic within a matter of minutes or hours. I rely on search engines only, so my traffic doesn't spike much day to day compared to some who rely mainly on link baiting controveries and Digg etc to get a huge surge of traffic at once.
One of my sites are getting stumbled and linked without me even knowing it( i never use stumble or digg so I don't know why I guess someone liked something on one of my sites) so with that going on and my other sites growing in traffic quickly im pushing close to 50,000 unique visitors a month on Google analytics already. I even posted a link to some other forum about something on my forum and a flood of people came to one of my forums(over 500 within a few hours on that one thread). I get over 5000 unique visitors a day the last few days on my account total. So far my hostgator "baby" plan is still holding up and still smooth... Either Hostgator is the worlds greatest host to handle this large surge of traffic on all my heavy resource sites or they are low on admin staff lately.
I have talked to lot of webhosts for similar issues. Hostgator can allow upto 50000 hits/day, 5000 users or so lunarpages can kick you out even at 1000 users a day hostdime/surpass handle upto 3000 a day but not more
Thanks. Right now im averaging only over a thousand unique visits (using google analytics) on hostgator. When you say 5000 users you mean about 5000 unique visits a day? If so thats a pretty decent comfort zone for me.
around 400k to 450k uniques per month? and no problems? what kind of hosting plan is that? Pls let us know most webhosting companies make all kinds of claims but kick you out when traffic reaches 100000th of what was allowed
Yeah its hard to believe. I would imagine that his website is probably very plain text html pages that don't cause much strain on the server. Either that or Godaddy apparently is overselling extremely bad to allow this to go on which is maybe why they don't seem to be a great hosting company for advanced software.