web hosting traffic
I’m an amateur web designer, and I’m hosting 5 web sites on my server. How much is too much?
I have 5 web sites hosted on my server (these are brochure sites – no enormous traffic) and I’m wondering if this is acceptable from a performance standpoint? How much is too much when utilizing hosting space (purchased from third party)? Are there tools that can provide information in regard to this? How can I find out if I can keep using the same hosting (and save $), or if I need to purchase more hosting space to make the traffic optimal to all my sites? No sales pitches, please. Thanks.
The number of SITES (domains) that you host with one account isn’t really an issue… it could be 5 or 50. What matters is, how close are you to reaching the traffic limit of your account? And how important is it that ALL of those sites are up 100% of the time?
Let’s compare 5 sites on ONE account to 5 sites on SEPARATE accounts…
If all 5 are on one account as they are now, what happens when ONE of your sites gets mentioned in the news, or on 20/20 or 60 Minutes, and that site ends up getting swamped with so much unanticipated traffic that your hosting company temporarily suspends the account.
With all five sites on ONE account, ALL FIVE will be suspended. With the sites in SEPARATE accounts, you’ve still got four sites up and running.
There is one measure you can use to get around this to some degree, instead of the expense and administrative hassle of opening up five separate accounts…
Go with a hosting company that allows you to have a RESELLER account. Even when the only one you’re “selling” the space to is yourself, this way you can specify exactly how much disk space and bandwidth is alloted to each domain name, so if one goes over, the others are still up and running.
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