Unlimited Sites?

[edextraze321]

Hi, i currently have one website hosted with a previous company, and i'm looking into transfering over to hostgator.com

I noticed you can host unlimited sites, what fees come along with that do you pay a monthly fee for each website you host?

I guess i'm just a little confused what it means to be able to host unlimited sites. I only have one site and one domain at this time, but was considering getting a few more websites going each with its own domain.

Would this cost me the 7.95 a month or is it 7.95 a month plus so much per extra site.

If anyone could clear this up that would be great, because my previous web hosting is expiring anyday. Thanks for the help.

[striddy]

Originally Posted by edextraze321

I noticed you can host unlimited sites, what fees come along with that do you pay a monthly fee for each website you host?

I guess i'm just a little confused what it means to be able to host unlimited sites. I only have one site and one domain at this time, but was considering getting a few more websites going each with its own domain.

Would this cost me the 7.95 a month or is it 7.95 a month plus so much per extra site.

All plans other than the "hatchling" plan allow you to host an unlimited number of websites. That means that the fee that is quoted, is all you pay for the hosting whether you have e.g. one site or ten sites.

However you will need to pay for all domain names that you wish to use from a domain registrar of your choice. e.g. HG, Namecheap, Godaddy, etc, etc.

[edextraze321]

Thanks for the reply, that seems like an amazing deal to host 10 sites for 7.95 a month plus the $10 a year or whatever you pay for each domain.

[AngelFire]

Its $7.95 per month if you pay on a 3 yearly yearly basis or $9.95 per month if you pay on a monthly basis. Even at $9.95 per month it is an amazing deal with what HG offers.

[tonyrocks]

ONE BIG THING TO REMEMBER: There is a limit of 200 emails that can be sent per-hour...this accounts for emails sent from all of your domains hosted.

[Keith W]

That is incorrect, the limit is 500 emails per hour

[striddy]

Originally Posted by tonyrocks

ONE BIG THING TO REMEMBER: There is a limit of 200 emails that can be sent per-hour...this accounts for emails sent from all of your domains hosted.

That was altered some time back.

http://www.hostgator.com/mailpolicy.shtml

[edextraze321]

Thanks for the added info, I guess if you took an hour or two to mass email for each site, you'd be fine, just couldn't do all of your sites at the same time. Good to know though, can that be upgraded?

[GatorWesley]

Originally Posted by edextraze321

Thanks for the added info, I guess if you took an hour or two to mass email for each site, you'd be fine, just couldn't do all of your sites at the same time. Good to know though, can that be upgraded?

Not without going to a dedicated server. But you can throttle mass emails with PHPlist which is available in Fantastico for free.

[peter_anderson]

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[RainbowViper]

Re: "unlimited sites", I believe there's a cPanel limit on the number of sites you can add (though the number is huge)??

[slapshotw]

Originally Posted by RainbowViper

Re: "unlimited sites", I believe there's a cPanel limit on the number of sites you can add (though the number is huge)??

It's very, very large-- I forget if it's all 9s (something like 99999999) or the max value of a database column (65,536 in an unsigned 16 bit column, for example).

[RainbowViper]

Thanks, Matt.

I knew it was high enough that no one would ever have to worry about it, in a practical sense anyway.

(But now my curiousity is piqued. I wonder what's the largest number of sites anyone has, on one account here, at HG. I think I'll make a post in the Offtopic forum and see.)

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by RainbowViper

Re: "unlimited sites", I believe there's a cPanel limit on the number of sites you can add (though the number is huge)??

Originally Posted by slapshotw

It's very, very large-- I forget if it's all 9s (something like 99999999) or the max value of a database column (65,536 in an unsigned 16 bit column, for example).

Mark, in an earlier thread in this category, you provided one answer yourself, and Serra another:

Unlimited Domains

[RainbowViper]

My memory recall wasn't that sharp when I was a youngster. You expect me to remember that little bit of trivia, from months ago, at 53?

Anyway, I see that Serra pegs it at ~24,000. Still too big to worry about.

[slapshotw]

Maybe it's 2^14 or 2^15, and the column is a signed integer?

[gwyneth]

Originally Posted by slapshotw

Maybe it's 2^14 or 2^15, and the column is a signed integer?

I couldn't find anything about this in the cPanel docs, nor in a couple of searches through the cPanel forum. In the other thread, in Off-topic (though Mark, it seems on-topic to me), one of the Gators said he'd had to manually do something to get it (at least on the servers here) past 999.