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06-04-2011, 04:48 PM #1Newbie
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Looking For Unlimited Inodes in Shared Hosting
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I know that might be too much to ask, but is there a host out there that doesn't limit there inodes in a shared hosting enviroment? No I don't want to go up to VPS hosting, just shared hosting.
I don't mind having my disk space or bandwidth limited, but it's just the number of inodes that I'm concerned with. Does anyone know of a good host that does this and can still maintain their hosting speed? Some offer this, but the speed is really slow. Any suggestions?
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06-04-2011, 04:50 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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06-04-2011, 05:02 PM #3Newbie
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Around what shared hosting goes for ...
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06-04-2011, 05:10 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Your best bet would to stay away from an unlimited storage host (which you said you don't mind).
Other than that, look through the host terms of service and ask them directly if they limit inodes.█ bihira.com | 10+ Years of Web Hosting Experience!
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06-04-2011, 05:25 PM #5Junior Guru
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They need an 'unlimited size' hard drive to accomplish this.
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06-04-2011, 06:22 PM #6
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06-04-2011, 07:52 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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This is most likely going to be something you will need to flat out ask the host what their policy is. You will probably not find many hosts that advertise this and they will handle it on a case by case basis. My suggestion would be to get a list together of some hosts you are interested in and contact them and ask directly. For what this may cost, might be time to consider moving to a VPS server which gives you more resources and more control :-)
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06-04-2011, 10:01 PM #8Reseller Hosting Specialist
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Most hosting providers that limit your disk space/bandwidth do not limit your inodes
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06-04-2011, 10:37 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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06-04-2011, 11:24 PM #10Web Hosting Industry Expert
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Actually every file system, that I know of, has a limitation of how many inodes/files/folders/file system entries it can have/keep track of. In EXT3 it's based off of the size of the file system where as in some file systems it's static.
Even if a provider were to offer you "unlimited" inodes, realistically the server does have a hard limit, at some point.
Here's a huge EXT3 partition for example:
Code:Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb3 2.7T 1.2T 1.4T 46% / Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdb3 731119616 7820017 723299599 2% /
Code:Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 537G 450G 59G 89% / Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda5 145162240 10802944 134359296 8% /
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06-04-2011, 11:28 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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06-05-2011, 12:41 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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Unlimited space = JBOD RAID or any other good raid.
The reality is: if you are a 5$ shared customer, most hosts won't afford a 200$ hard drive for you.Maxence H. - UBservers.com
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06-05-2011, 12:49 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Unlimited space = JBOD RAID or any other good raid.
The reality is: if you are a 5$ shared customer, most hosts won't afford a 200$ hard drive for you.Maxence H. - UBservers.com
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06-05-2011, 01:51 AM #14Retired Moderator
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06-05-2011, 04:57 AM #15New Member
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I had a site on hostgator that generated a lot of connections. They limited my account and then moved to site5 and everything works fine so far.
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06-05-2011, 10:16 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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06-05-2011, 10:18 AM #17Rockin' the beer gut
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Interesting ... I guess this is a natural outcome of advertising "unlimited disk space" and then putting a limit on the number of files you can have. So folks who want "unlimited" everything are now starting to ask about "unlimited inodes". I find this a bit funny.
HG's 250,000 inode limit seems pretty large to me. I did a comparison of several accounts to see if I could ascertain a ratio of disk space used to inodes used, looking for a general rule of thumb I could apply. But even comparing two Wordpress sites I found the number of file system objects varied widely. One was consuming just under 20,000 inodes, while hte other was under 5,000. I know why ... the high inode site had installed dozens of templates, each with many tiny image and javascript files.
A limit on the number of inodes is probably less friendly to the consumer than one on disk space, since most people understand how you can fill up a hard drive. But how do you know when you are reaching your inode limit? I don't think there's a way to find out if you don't have shell access.0
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06-05-2011, 05:48 PM #19Elite Webmaster
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I'm a bit confused by your post. You say you don't mind being limited on disk space at all.. So why would you want unlimited inodes then?
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06-05-2011, 09:03 PM #20Rockin' the beer gut
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06-10-2011, 01:58 AM #22Junior Guru Wannabe
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06-10-2011, 03:27 AM #23WHT Addict
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no "unlimited" disk space or bandwidth. We are not able to buy an "unlimited" hardisk, aren't we? site slowness maybe because your traffic is too high till your hosting package cannot support. to minimize the problem, please upgrade your hosting package.
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06-10-2011, 03:34 AM #24Disabled
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Windows hosting plan has less restriction on the inodes. For linux based service, I would suggest fatcow. as far as I know they do not have such restriction.
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