Hostgator shared web hosting plan does allow apache mod_rewrite feature, and you can use the rewrite feature. There are alot of php scripts that require mod_rewrite feature to be enable on web server in order to function properly. For example this wordpress blog does require redirect via .htaccess and using the rewrite function. Hence allow the wordpress blog permalink to work. You can do permanent redirect or temporary redirection too.
If you are not sure mod_rewrite function is enabled in hostgator shared web hosting? The answer here will be yes, and you can use mod_rewrite in your hostgator shared web hosting.
“# Never use www in the domain
# Replace ‘example.com’ with your domain name
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(([a-z0-9_]+.)?example.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]“
Are you searcing for hostgator shared hosting limits and how much usage is allowed by hostgator shared hostin plan? This is another article related to hostgator TOS and that you should know before you start. Hostgator shared hosting plan, allows 50,000 inodes limit. This means you can host 50,000 files in your single hostgator web hosting plan. What happend if you exceed this inodes limit and have more than 50,000 files in your hostgator account? Is that mean you can’t host anymore files? NO… that is not the answer. You can host more than that. Up to 250,000 files can be hosted in your hostgator hosting account. Problem about the 50k inode limits is that only the first 50000 files will be backup periodically, remaining will be skipped. If you have no choice but to host over 50,000 files at your host gator shared hosting… its recommendded to carry own server backup by yourself regularly to prevent data lost.
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As we already know, hostgator database size is not limited to certain number of file size per database. Your hostgator hosting plan can have MySQL database can be in any size, 1MB, 100MB, or more… as long there is sufficient disc space in your cpanel account to host the file size. If you are concerning about hostgator hosting is handling mysql database query size and want to know what the limit is… the better question to ask is how many simultaneous mysql database connection is allow at your hostgator hosting. As we found out, each of your cpanel account allow you to execute 25 MySQL database connection at the same time. Usually a PHP script that carry out sequence of mysql queries will complete the query within second and close the database connection, regardless how many queries per connection, its counted as one database connection only. The chance to have 25 simultaneous mysql database connection at one time from your cpanel account is very small. Unless you are running a website with thousand of user online at the same time for example.
Also, hostgator mysql server will timeout in 15 to 30 second of inactivity. Meaning the mysql database connection made will be terminated if there is no activity by php scritps for example. This help recover and release the database resource back to server.
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