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Hostinger posted Job Advertisement for Senior System Administrator. Listed Infrastructure: single E5-2680v4, 256GB RAM, 12x4TB SATA. Please to calculate: 5000 cPanel Accounts advertised on same Website. This is 51MB RAM per Account if all active, not counting Overhead. I contacted Hostinger Sales, received no Response. Please to share Opinions.
Martin Weber
2026-07-14 09:23 CET
Crowdfunding audit? Im in for $20
5000 accounts on one E5 is not overselling, it's a powder keg. Mark my words, Hostinger will either collapse or "restructure" within six months. I've seen this movie twenty times. The job posting is the confession.
I ran audit on Hostinger in 2022 I found 8000 accounts on dual E5 I still has spreadsheet I will contribute fifty dollars to this audit I demand transparency
256MB each and they're turning a profit? I smell loss leader
I've seen this movie too. E5-2680v4 can't hide the math forever
51MB per cPanel account is not a hosting plan, it's a countdown
The math isn't hiding. It's screaming. 14 cores, 28 threads, and they're slicing it 5000 ways. That's 0.0056 threads per account if you're generous. I don't care how good your CloudLinux cage is, when the WordPress cron jobs align on the hour that box is going to sound like a jet engine and perform like a potato.
Hostinger has datacenter in Singapore, I am using from Osaka. My site loads okay but I never checked how many neighbors. Now I am worried.
Tuesday 2 AM UTC. Every cheap host I've ever monitored dies then. The cron alignment is real and it is brutal.
But here's what I don't get. Phoenix datacenter is on their list. That E5 spec is maybe $300/month colo if you're bad at negotiating. At $0.50/account you need 600 accounts just to break even on the hardware. The real question is how many boxes they actually have versus how many they advertise.
