Do I need the VPS plan?

[txoov]

I am using PHP with MySQL. My site is a web application which will create a database for each user. Each database may have up to 25 tables. The application uses one main database with 75+ stored procedures. A few of the stored procedures are pretty complex and has many SELECT statements. The stored procedures are fast though. I heard that stored procedures are cpu intensive. I use very little PHP. Also, the application can potentially send out 10 to 1,000 emails per hour. Is the VPS plan right for me or would I be okay with the Business Plan (I need SSL as well). What's going to happen when I get up to 1,000 databases? How would I move from the Business Plan to VPS to Dedicated? Which VPS plan would you recommend? Thanks...

[emckai]

I dont think there is a limit to how many database you can have.
If you get up to 1000 databases, you should be fine, HostGator provides UNLIMITED amount of MySQL Databases.

If you are sending out 1000 emails per hour then yes you will need a VPS, we do have a limit of 500 email per hour for any Shared/Reseller Account.

To read more information on this you can go here. http://www.hostgator.com/mailpolicy.shtml

As far as Databases, on all shared accounts you do get an unlimited number of MySQL databases.