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Poll: how many 'unlimited' sites before they throttle you?

Reviews by petra 24 replies 3.2K views
#1

Hi all, Petra here from GreenCloudVPS. Curious about others experiences with "unlimited" hosting claims. We advertise unlimited sites on our shared tier but obviously there are practical limits. Wondering what numbers people have actually hit before performance degradation. Not naming competitors, just gathering industry-standard data. :)

#2

We have the internet box from Hetzner, my nephew set it up. I think we have 47 sites? Maybe 50? The internet box started getting slow so we called Hetzner and they said we needed the Business Plan. Is that throttling? We also upgraded the RAM but I think that means storage, the nice man said more GB.

#3

OwnerSeeker said:
47 sites
On shared hosting is absurd. I decommed a Dell R640 last week, dual Xeon 6248R, 256GB DDR4, drew 340W at peak. Thats maybe 200 light sites if youre careful. Shared nodes? Youre fighting 500 other tenants for disk I/O. Get a 1U colo and know your limits.

visit twice: install and decom
#4

Sorry if this is a dumb question. But how do you even host 47 sites? I have 2 on Time4VPS and they said unlimited but my wordpress gets slow if I install too many plugins. Is that the same thing? Thanks everyone!

#5

47 sites on a shared "internet box" sounds like overselling to me

42U and still growing
#6

I had the same thing with Hetzner

#7

Which Xeons, 6248R or something older? And what RAID level?

#8

dadlime said:
Which Xeons, 6248R or something older? And what RAID level?
6248R, 2.4 base 3.9 turbo. RAID 10 on 8x 960GB SAS SSDs. Backplane was the bottleneck honestly, not the CPUs. Sold it to a guy in Naperville who wanted a Plex server.

visit twice: install and decom
#9

Overselling is the whole business model of shared hosting. I tell my clients in Montreal: if you need more than 5 WordPress sites, go VPS. They never listen until the database locks up.

42U and still growing
#10

Carl said:
RAID 10 on 8x 960GB SAS SSDs
Nice. I run RAID 6 on my colo box in Manchester, same generation hardware but E5-2680 v4. Not as fast but I sleep better.

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