i have a shared hosting at 1and1.com giving me 120 GB space and 1200GB bandwidth.But when i called support staff , they said i cant host any mp3 or video streaming site as it was against their TOS. They recommended me a dedicated hosting for such sites. But my doubt is , when they have given me so much BANDWIDTH , of what use is it?? i am planning to open a big forum too.So is a forum with more than 30K members allowed in shared hosting??Can i also host a free image hosting script on a shared hosting?? PLEASE tell me what type of sites are allowed in a shared hosting (1and1.com) and what are not allowed.. i know u cant have WAREZ , PORN , HAKCING , ILLEGAL type of sites.But can i atleast host a GAME site or something like that?? Hoping for the best replies ....... Reply With Quote
It's just a marketing ploy, all these hosts with insane allocations restrict you in some way because they can't really give you what they claim. Welcome to the real world. If the majority of those users are online at the same time you'll probably get asked to move to a VPS or dedicated by most shared hosts. No reason why not providing there's nothing illegal in there and the host doesn't forbid it. You can have porn if the host permits it and it's legal. You can basically host anything you like on shared hosting accounts providing that it's within the terms as set forth by the host. However as you start using more and more resources you will outgrow a shared account and need to move to a VPS or dedicated server.
Thanks for your beautiful reply.. i really liked it. is it LUCKY for me to have only 7 other sites in my shared server??I have done some reverse IP and found out there were only 7 sites there excluding mine.so does that mean majority of the server can be utilised for me??All those 7 sites look pretty small. What are the general server CONFIGURATION for a shared hosting guys??
That's not an exact science, there's probably more than that on there. The host won't allow to you use as much resources as you want as they have to get enough sites on the server to make it profitable. It can be almost anything, you'd have to ask the host unless it tells you in the hosting control panel. It might have a RAID array or a single disk, it could have 2GB or 8GB of RAM, it could be Dual core or a Dual Quad core ...... the possibilities are endless.