load-balance

[Bartuc]

I know that VPS is likely dedicated server about resourge usage.

I've found out a web hosting company which is using something like "load-balance technology". That vas used for sharing resource usages on shared servers like VPS, so they say that they are not going to suspend their customers websites because of the server load, because they use this technology and all customers uses their own CPU and RAM limits on the shared servers.

I've an image hosting site hosted on hostgator now. It's getting bigger and because of that i can't afford a dedicated server, I will need to move my website to anywhere else not to be suspended. One of my friend had an image hosting website on hostgator and his site suspended because of resource usage.

Can't hostgator use such a technology?

And secondly, why it is not possible to upload more than 50.000 files on an shared hosting account?

[riostyles]

I have the fealing that HG uses the same technology withiut technology, meanung when the overall CPU is away, HG is looking for the "Guilyest" guy. Even well dispathed with load-balance, the box can't give more as hi have.

For the 50,000 Inodes; Why you don't hire a small (Or larger) shared and put some/all images there authorizing the hotlink only from yourself or from your customers. Does'nt hurt the speed nor the TOS so far as I know. In fact will trough the url or symlink as the HD Y.
Even I do not see much code lines to sweat.

[Bartuc]

i think limiting cpu usage for each account is better than suspending sites these are using high resources. website which is using high resources may slow down instead of suspending...

[ViragoTech]

Im not 100% sure what your saying but I can tell you that from my experiance so far load balancing sucks the big one. Since the place I am at now went that way its been one excuess after another why things are slow all the time. I feel all that does it let thoes who use allot, suck up even more from others.

It why Im here poking around trying to find a new perm home. I hate change but I gotta look. Like when your job starts sucking more then usual, you know its time to look around incase ya gotta jump ship.

[riostyles]

On my own experience, and the best since 15 years hosting, so long you let the other doing a normal job, do what you want.
The static limitations HD, inodes, are not really a probleme, an upgrade is done as a lightening.
The BW, uneasy to catch the limit and can be upgraded just with a few bucks.
50.000 inodes per domain, multplicate domains,
200 E-mails / hour per domain = 4,800 per day
25 DB connections means at least with a clean scripting hundreds if not thousand simultaneous connections.
The other limits are HG's will like no spam, no ..., see TOS, thats why we stick here.
http://www.hostgator.com/tos.shtml

[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by Bartuc

I've found out a web hosting company which is using something like "load-balance technology

there is very little few that using load balancing.
For example powweb.

i using them as well. so far, the mysql is slow.
and they have server connected together. when reverse ip checking, the single IP is link with 9000 domain name.

[slapshotw]

VPS is the kind of thing that sounds amazing on paper, but works terrible in real life. Yes, you get root access and your own slice of the CPU, but they often have so many people sharing the server that it performs terrible! Just think about it this way...on an HG shared server, there's one OS installation, one WHM installation, one apache installation, etc... On a VPS, there's a separate installation of each of those for every person on the server. It's a huge waste of resources.

Seriously, consider using Amazing S3 for images. It's unbelievably cost effective and super reliable, plus no suspension.

[Break the Silence]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

VPS is the kind of thing that sounds amazing on paper, but works terrible in real life. Yes, you get root access and your own slice of the CPU, but they often have so many people sharing the server that it performs terrible!

Really? I was under the impression that most of the plans offer a guaranteed percentage of system resources... How many ways can you slice a CPU before virtually private becomes meaningless?

[slapshotw]

Originally Posted by Break the Silence

I was under the impression that most of the plans offer a guaranteed percentage of system resources

That's kind of my point. The idea sounds like the perfect solution, but in reality it just doesn't end up working that well.

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

That's kind of my point. The idea sounds like the perfect solution, but in reality it just doesn't end up working that well.

Showing once again, there's no such thing as free processing.

[ViragoTech]

Main reason I didn't go VDS as it sounds to good to be true plus you don't get allot of support. You gotta install all your own programs and do updates to the server.

[Break the Silence]

Originally Posted by gwyneth

Showing once again, there's no such thing as free processing.

Maybe not, but I'm still holding out hope on that whole free lunch thing...