Bluehost told me that they have the server as follow: 8x AMD Opteron-6168 12Core (Processor) 1x Super Micro AS -2122TG-HTRF (Chassis, Motherboard, Heatsinks) 16x 8 GB DDR3-133 ECC / REG (Memory) 12x WD1500BLFS (Hard Drives) 8x Samsung 256GB SSD (SSD Drives) 4x LSI 9280-4i4E (Sata Controller) 4x LSIIBBU07 (Controller Battery) Storage Array: 2x External JBOD Chassis- 4u 45Bay SAS (Chassis) 90x 2TB Hitach 3.5" (Hard Drives) Such a deluxe one! But I really can't belive that. And the operator said there were up to 1500 hosting on the server. Here are the questions: 1. Is it possible for Bluehost to server us by such a deluxe server? May I trust them? 2. Base on such a server, how it will be if 1500 PHP sites are setup? can visitors access the sites on that server smoothly? As you may know, Bluehost provides all kinds of UNLIMITED. It is really attractive, but I am still a little worry about the overselling. Since Bluehost has a long history after all. And it seems a little difficult for me to find out a hosting service provider that still keeps a limited both in Bandwidth and Storage. I feel hard to make a dicision. 3. Is there any experience of using bluehost or others hosting to share, or any suggestion? Thanks a lot.
BlueHost is in business from quite sometime now and is trustable but hosting 1500 websites as their operator have claimed really depends on what kind of websites he is referring to? 1500+ websites are possible IF they are text based websites i.e. only html OR a few with very small database and less traffic BUT a few high traffic/resource usage websites can slow down the server as well. So it really depends on what kind of websites hosted on the server. A poorly coded script/plugin can use up all the resources in a quick time and make the server inaccessible. So basically you should assume that the they are referring to small 1500 websites, which are less database driven with less traffic. If it's a dedicated server with a separate storage area, you shouldn't worry since you will get the disk space you paid for.
Thank you for your reply. In fact, i dont worry about the disk space or the bandwidth. Just think about this: how much such a server mentioned above costs, and how much Bluehost can be paid by all the 1500 users? As a result, I really worry about the overselling. And I also understand that there may be more than 1500 sites on that server, but in modern time, most of the sites are not base on the simple TEXT. In this case, 1500 hosting with UNLIMITED sites still shock me.
They are offering you a Dedicated server, isn't it? If yes, you will be the owner and they can't host websites on your server so no question of overselling. If they are offering you a reseller account on the mentioned configuration server, then yes, it's possible that they can oversell.
My apology, Bluehost never provide dedicated server. They only provide shared hosting. The so called server, is where all the shared hosting are setuped. I just want to buy one of the hosting on that server. Not the whole server, as a result, it could be also possible that they can oversell. That is what I am really worry about.
Yes, in that case, they can. How many websites are you looking to host? If you are planning to host 5-10 websites, you can get yourself a VPS and a control panel and setup/configure server as per your wish.
VPS even VDS will work prefectly, but they all mean pay more money. I just need a common virtual host, it will be much cheaper than VPS. And there is no more than 5 sites need to be host. But, the problem is that my sites is all PHP code, and they posts lots of HTTP request to each other, and response request from others. All these feature require more CPU and RAM. That is the shortage of virtual host. Since these sites are under test, and regarding to the budget, I think that vitrual host will be enough. And is there any recommandation?
Over the years I though Bluehost provided dedicated servers as one of the kinds of service they provide. I'm curious, is Bluehost the first web host that you're going to use?
it depends on what kind of site hosted there. 1500 hosting, i think they can handle small sites, but if your sites are like high traffic forum, them its impossible for them to host 1500. also it depends on network connection they are connected to. if they are in 100mbps, then not possible. all sites will load slow. am sure they are connected at 1gbps port. remember dont ever go with oversold providers with unlimited diskspace,bandwidth,domain. its just a marketing strategy. there is no such thing as those. they will ban your account if you host high traffic site/forums/blog.
According to your conclusion, may I said that: Never choose Bluehost as you hosting, because it is all kinds of UNLIMITED?
Not exactly, I never use any other web host in US before. I used to server for customers who have their own servers in my state. It is embarrassed, isn't it.
I think you can chose a buget VPS to host your site. Buget VPS from about $5-$7/month for 512MB RAM, 20-30G HDD. With that VPS, you can host about 5 site with all visitor about 10K/day I have a wordpress site with totally is 10K visitor/day. I'm using a VPS 512MB RAM for it.
1500 in that? OMG i think is most probable to get bottlenecked with CPU, Disk I/O and Connection ! It should have at least 10X1Gbps public bandwidth port so that they can handle all those traffic and I think it's not a good idea to go with single huge server, better is cluster of Smaller Quad Core machines [SBs] which will outperform all these monsters. The actual server may cost 30K+ and operating costs are not below 4K or 5K including bandwidth cost. So they are most likely to put 1.5K sites there. Wow that's called Business.
It surely is. As a result, I decide to buy a virtual host for a month for testing. And then make a decision depond on the result of the testing.