How many visitors you can handle using WordPress? (at shared hosting)

[Sutt]

Hello to everyone,

I'm wondering how many visitors per day the Baby Plan can handle using WordPress?

I'm thinking about having multiple WordPress websites at the same shared hosting plan, is that possible? What's the maximum amount of visitors admins would recommend to have under the Baby Plan?

I would like to hear from other customers how much traffic they handle with their WordPress websites without having performance problems (CPU and Memory).

I would like to hear from the admins how much traffic they recommend to have under a shared plan, and if they recommend to host multiple WordPress installs under the same account. (using cache plugins).

I also wondering if someone who uses the Baby Plan could post a link to their website so I can check the perfomance.

Thank you in advance.

[GatorJacob]

Hi Sutt,

This isn't an easy question as you believe. There are way too many variables that come into play here.

I'd suggest checking out this thread:
http://forums.hostgator.com/figure-m...le-t69710.html

[virtvir5]

Originally Posted by Sutt

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I also wondering if someone who uses the Baby Plan could post a link to their website so I can check the perfomance.

As GatorJacob says, it's almost impossible to provide any comprehensive answers to your questions about how much is too much. Start with a Baby account and see how it goes keeping an eye on server resources usage. You can always upgrade later if necessary.

As for performance, here is a Wordpress set-up on a Baby account without any plugins and that no one hardly ever visits, including the author (me). It may give you some idea about barebones performance.

[Sutt]

Do you think it can handle 40,000 visitors per day?

* Using cache plugins, and almost no other plugins (certainly no heavy plugins) no heavy images, and no videos at all.

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Why is the shared hosting plan on HG a little bit more expensive than the others? (for example, I can find shared host services for $4 per month).

If they all offer unlimited stuff, what's the HG's differencial?

Thank you!

[virtvir5]

As someone who spent some of his early internet exploration bouncing around a few other hosting services with "unlimited stuff", the biggest difference so far as I'm concerned is Hostgator's very knowledgeable and extraordinarily helpful support and systems admin personel. Whether here in the forums (occasionally) or via their "official" support contact routes, their interactions with users are beyond doubt the most friendly and forthright I've seen with any commercial enterprise anywhere.

To me, that alone is worth infinitely more than any minor price differential. But Hostgator also happens to be the best hosting service you'll find which may also be worth something.

Give their sales folks a call and ask their opinion on your proposed usage, but as I said, the only final result would be to try it and watch the resources usage.

[Sutt]

I already have a shared hosting plan on another host company and it can barely handle my websites. So I'm going to experience no difference at all with HG?

[virtvir5]

Dunno. What kind of shared server resources (CPUs, RAM, etc.) does your current hosting service provide?

[Sutt]

Specs are almost the same of HG. However, they have about 1,300 accounts at the same shared machine. I did some IP reverse search and it seems like HG only hosts about 200 ~ 300 accounts at the same machine, is that right?

[GatorWesley]

Originally Posted by Sutt

I already have a shared hosting plan on another host company and it can barely handle my websites. So I'm going to experience no difference at all with HG?

It really varies on a lot of things including the specs of the server that you were on with your previous host as well as the limits compared to ours. I would recommend emailing support@hostgator.com with the link to your site and any additional information you can provide about what plugins and any custom settings you may be running. Be sure to include traffic stats as well so we can get an idea of how your site will run on our shared servers.

[kingtas]

I'm not a server guru but have learned that it's more than CPU speed and ram memory for running database driven sites. I am currently with a $4 a month provider that works for me now since my site has very minimal traffic. But I may need to change over to HG in the future if my site uses more resources. This is the important difference as I see it:

Hostgator Shared Hosting
PHP Memory Limit = 64M
MySql Open Connection Limit = 25 or 30

$4 Shared Hosting
PHP Memory Limit = 30M
MySql open Connection Limit = 18

Hope this helps.

[kingtas]

One other important thing to look at is user experience.

http://www.webhostingreviews.com/

HG recommended 60 yes 3 no
BH recommended 16 yes 11 no