What host will allow me to host the most wordpress installations?

[Zutroy]

Hi folks

I have a lot of domain names and I would like to put a small site on each using wordpress, but I am finding that a lot of hosts are limiting the amount of domains I can have wordpress installed on, not because of the disk space or bandwidth I would require (they would be new small sites and would not require that much for a good while) but because of the drain on server resources each wordpress installation will cause, hostgator and blue host have told me I could have around 10-15 wordpress installations max per shared account, which if you have a couple of hundred domain names could be quite expensive if they are not generating the traffic to cover the cost, if they get to the stage where they require more bandwidth and disk space I will happily pay for it as they ought to be generating the money to cover that cost. Another user in another thread said they have seen people run 90 wordpress installations each on a separate domain on a $10 a month account, I would happily pay for a couple of them if I could find them. So what host will allow me to host the most number of domains each with wordpress on them? I am not really bothered if it’s a shared or reseller account I am just after the most cost effective option. I don’t really want to pay for dedicated yet as I don’t think they will be making the money to cover the cost of that just yet.

Many thanks in advance

John

 

[.Andy]

There are many hosts that allow unlimited domains. The main thing is over sellers put big limits on domains as they can't honestly offer you hundreds of gigs. Try and find a honest host that has a good reputation here theres pleny of them.

 

[nucleotide]

if the installation of wordpress is a drain on the server, then the resident app should not be.

 

[SiberForum]

Better have small VPS and host as many worpress projects as your server sources allow you

Good luck

 

[WebIntellects - Rob]

Hello John!
Can you please let us know what is estimated ammount of blogs you would like to host?

 

[Ziggery.com]

Hi John,

I'm with HG and I have 60+ wordpress installs running, no probs at all with doing that, just thought I'd let you know.

-R
P.S, its a shared server as well, not a vps

 

[XeHSean]

As long as you have enough databases and disk space for the wordpress installations, I don't see why any host would limit how many you could host

 

[ldcdc]

I don't see why any host would limit how many you could host

The more you have, the more traffic they likely attract, and the more server resources they will be using. A host will usually care about CPU and RAM usage though, not the number of wordpress installations. It doesn't matter if it's one hugely popular blog, or 100 virtually unknown ones.

In any case, it's a good idea to use a cache plugin, and to do your own backups.

Many hosts these days have inodes (files+folders count) limits. One should be careful regarding that too. Each wordpress installation uses about 1000 files I think.

 

[Zutroy]

Thanks guys, to be honest Rob I am not really sure yet, I was thinking between 100-200, but I may have over stretched myself a bit and am reconsidering how many I should develop, I am still considering whether I want to use word press or just settle for something like noomle, maintaining/upgrading a lot of installations of wordpress may be a bit of a hassle. I am still considering all my options, I have consulted a few hosts on the subject and they have told me disk space and transfer/bandwidth aside having an installation of wordpress on each domain will take up a fair amount of cpu and memory and like everything else this does have limits. Apparently one of the main problems with wordpress is the wp-cron.php file, this supposedly can take up a fair amount of resources, but you can disable this and just add a cron job to update it once a day. This combined with wp super cache should help, also plugins can cause a problem, it’s best to keep them to a minimum if server resources is an issue.

Thanks for all the input folks, like I say I am still deciding what I want to do.

Take care

John

 

[WebIntellects - Rob]

If you are not sure about the number of blogs I think that would be wise get started with small VPS and then upgrade to something bigger.

 

[XeHSean]

How many blogs do you actually need? I'm sure that starting on a shared hosting package would be sufficient for you

 

[WebIntellects - Rob]

How many blogs do you actually need? I'm sure that starting on a shared hosting package would be sufficient for you

Sean It seems he doesn't know for sure. He said something between 100-200. But I think that the number is not main figure here. Assuming they are new they will not have a lot of bandwidth and they will not use a lot of server sources.