Not just hostgator hosting, almost all web hosting companies are now overselling their web hosting package. This doesn’t mean overselling by packing thousands of customer account in one small server. As long the server is having sufficient capacity and able to host maximum websites, its fine to have overselling feature. Its vital for shared web hosting, especially in linux web hosting invironment.
Web hosting overselling feature allows web hosting company to do the following:
- Offer web hosting plan with unlimited storage space.
- Sharing the unused disk space with other customer accounts.
- Sell more web hosting plan.
- Host more websites in one server, allows unlimited domain hosting.
Overselling is one of the main reason that make linux web hosting more successful compare with windows ASP web hosting. As long there is empty web storage space, there is chance to sell more web hosting account and allocate more websites into the same servers, its called server resources optimization.
Web hosting oversell is not bad, as long following guideline are followed:
- Limiting the numbers of user accounts and websites hosted in one server capacity, for example limit to 1000 websites per server.
- Limiting the server disk space usage and quata for unuse space, for example 50% of disk space resources are reserve for current users.
- Monitoring the server CPU usage and server performance tightly.
- Control and limiting the php scripts process run, and hence avoid server overload caused by CPU demanding application.
- Excellent technical support and customer service in maintenance a fully allocated web servers
- Require proper server management.
Hostgator hosting is good, and you can compare them with other top hosting including: Bluehost, Hostmonster, Justhost, Fatcow, Ixwebhosting, and much more!
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