Is there any limit of how many accounts/domains a server can host, more than the harddrive?

Let's say that every accunt just use 1-3kb and low BW per account for example, that would be extremely many accounts.

Do anybody know please?

There is no limit the server will enforce. Its all up to the host on how many he/she thinks he/she can fit. Thats what seperates good hosts from bad hosts :).

Too many variables with different servers, operating systems, control panels, etc to be able to answer something like this.

Watch your server load and don't oversell your space/bandwidth.

EDIT: Just to clarify though, if you are running a celeron processor and your provider is offering you 1000 GB of transfer a month, don't think you're actually going to be able to push that much traffic a month off of that box.

Even knowing how many accounts are on a server won't help you judge whether a host is overcrowding the server or not. One of our servers has 500 domains that belong to a single client, but they are all one-pagers with almost no traffic (he's trying to sell the domain names).

Scott

Originally posted by developer
Let's say that every accunt just use 1-3kb and low BW per account for example, that would be extremely many accounts.
Whatta http.conf file that would be! I think your only real limitations there basically comes down to creating a disaster on the server in terms of config files. I can't imagine apache would like 3 million accounts, just due to having to wade through all the entries, but I'll also clearly state that I've not personally tried. Something fun to try on Tuesday nights, as there's nothing on t.v. then. ;)
Originally posted by Coach
EDIT: Just to clarify though, if you are running a celeron processor and your provider is offering you 1000 GB of transfer a month, don't think you're actually going to be able to push that much traffic a month off of that box.
Unless we're talking about providers offering jiggabytes of transfer and not delivering (which could be what we're talking about), what would stop this box from pumping out 1,000GB of data?

Originally posted by Chicken
Whatta http.conf file that would be! I think your only real limitations there basically comes down to creating a disaster on the server in terms of config files. I can't imagine apache would like 3 million accounts, just due to having to wade through all the entries, but I'll also clearly state that I've not personally tried. Something fun to try on Tuesday nights, as there's nothing on t.v. then. ;)



Okey, so a host that focus on people that speculates in domain names(like 1000-3000 domains per costumer) would not be such a good idea then? :confused:

Originally posted by Chicken
Unless we're talking about providers offering jiggabytes of transfer and not delivering (which could be what we're talking about), what would stop this box from pumping out 1,000GB of data?

From what I've seen, a celery is going to start dying after 400 GB of traffic and even that is pushing it. The exception here might be one with a bunch of static and/or download sites on it. However, if you're running a lot of dynamic content on it, then you're going to have to look into getting a new server well before you reach your 1000 GB limit. You'll be well above an acceptable load average threshold.

It completly depends on your sites contents, watch your loads close and decide when you need another server.

A 1GHz celeron with 256MB of RAM can easily push 5TB/month of static content. If you've got a lot of dynamic content, of course, the situation is different.

To answer the original question: The number of "sites", "accounts", or "domains" is irrelevant. What matters is the *total* disk space used, *total* bandwidth used, and *total* cpu load exerted.

CPU Load..
Memory useage...
Space used...
Bandwidth being used..

They all determine it :)

Thanks for the help. :)

Originally posted by Coach
From what I've seen, a celery is going to start dying after 400 GB of traffic and even that is pushing it. The exception here might be one with a bunch of static and/or download sites on it. However, if you're running a lot of dynamic content on it, then you're going to have to look into getting a new server well before you reach your 1000 GB limit. You'll be well above an acceptable load average threshold.

That's not true at all. There are other variables to determine what a box can do. It's not a simple correlation between cpu and bandwidth you can push.