I'm hosting a site on Yahoo! Web Hosting. I've had surges of traffic up to 36,000 uniques per day without a problem. The problem now is that I'm not sure how much more traffic they will allow before they shut me down. 100,000 uniques per day? 1 million uniques per day? They claim "unlimited", but common sense tells me there's a cutoff point. What is that point? Thanks.
I suppose it depends entirely on your site(s), are they dynamic (PHP/MySQL) or static (HTML)? There is surely a limit because of resource usage, there's probably some fineprint in the TOS?
That explains it! If it's only static driven you'll be able to attain a lot more compared to a dynamic site. No need to process things just to generate & serve the HTML to the visitor. As far as your actual limits are concerned though, I would have no idea, depending what kind of content you're serving the limit you might reach before visitor counts is bandwidth. It's hard to say how many customers they have on their servers, and what they have for hardware, amongst other things.
That's a bit of relief. I just found an official explanation here http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/unlimited/ but they don't specify how much is TOO much.
The unlimited hosting is not a really unlimited anyway. They have their own acceptable capacity. I have read Yahoo TOS and think it is an unclear anyway. You might being forced to upgrade or move hosting account in the near future. You should consider yourself lucky for using HTML static, otherwise if your website is dynamic database driven then you would be kicked out already for 36K UV daily on shared hosting.
I would love to upgrade but I don't see the way to do it. When should I upgrade? How should I upgrade? Is there even an upgrade option? Those are questions I have that Yahoo is not clear on answering.
Well, the matter of providing members with unlimited bandwidth and disk space is nowadays a technique used by all leading hosting companies. Of course it could be true to some extent because assume for example that one or two from among five hundred members whose sites are hosted on one server are using lots of resources, and the others are light users, so nothing would go wrong. But for some serious business projects, using dedicated servers could be recommended.
I have to think the TOS doesn't mention a hard number because they'll want to look at each hosting customer on a case by case basis. I would imagine they wouldn't worry about your traffic unless it was garbage/spammy in nature (what search engines refer to as bounce rate (where visitors visit webpage then immediately leave)).
you have html ... that does not take much of resources ... so i would say like at most 50k if it was like a wordpress site you would have been shut down by 5 - 10k