Inode in plain English?

[FireDart]

Hello I am interested in buying a Shared Hatching Plan but have a question about the Inode limit.


First off can someone explain clearly what Inodes are? I have hosted a few websites but have never heard of Inodes before.
From what am getting from this forum and Wikipedia it's data like Files, Folders, MySql, E-Mails Address, etc. Does this mean 1 File = inode, 1 Folder = Inode, etc.?


If I am correct how mush traffic must you receive to exceed this limit?
Of course it depends on your site but say I am running a simple CMS(Modx CMS) and a Forum(SMF) where the CMS has 100+ pages around 5kb-15kb and I get regular post in the forum?


I should be fine right? Plus if you were to really get hundreds of views and exceed the limit it's time for a Dedicated Server I suppose.


If you exceed the limit you get a warning to fix the problem I suppose?


From what I seen so far the staff look great and customers seem satisfy with the service,
-FireDart

[striddy]

Originally Posted by FireDart

Does this mean 1 File = inode, 1 Folder = Inode, etc.?

One file or director = one inode

Originally Posted by FireDart

how mush traffic must you receive to exceed this limit?

Traffic relates to bandwidth, not inodes.

[quietFinn]

And applications using database (CMS, forum) store the contents in the database, so it's not increasing the inode count.

[FireDart]

Oh cool, thanks for the info guys.