February 27, 2010
What host will allow me to host the most wordpress installations?
Posted by: tradingnames : Category: Hosting
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, but for now I want to keep the cost down as much as possible.
Another user on another forum 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, but I think that sounds a bit too good to be true based on what I have found so far (how likely is this?). 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. So I am asking this question in regards to shared, reseller and maybe VPS.
Many thanks in advance
John
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, but for now I want to keep the cost down as much as possible.
Another user on another forum 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, but I think that sounds a bit too good to be true based on what I have found so far (how likely is this?). 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. So I am asking this question in regards to shared, reseller and maybe VPS.
Many thanks in advance
John
