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Hostgator, 10 bucks of overselling

August 25th, 2008 by patlatyj

Hi, I’d like to share with you my experience of using the hostgator services (this blog is currently running on it), *00 gigs of storage for 10 bucks per month? Cute… The fact is, 99,9% of users won’t use more then 1 gb and this allows hostgators to sell 1000 gb server to 1000 people, each having *00 gigs of space - this is called overselling and all of the big hosters do it, it’s not bad. However, if you happen to have that much of space, traffic and so on, why don’t use it 100%? Long story short, you can’t fill it with text or images, and if you try to do something serious on this space, you’ll get your database blocked (and scripts too, if necessary), ok, when you manage to lower the usage they get the DB up, usually it takes ~12 hours to make something with your site, write them a ticket, and get the DB unlocked (which is pretty fast, thanks hostgator support), but the really dumb thing is that they don’t notify you AT ALL. You can just notice that seeing your site down… This sucks… However the service is ok and IMHO, you gotta try to make your scripts lightweight or something (Wordpress is ***ing not lightweigth) and to always use as many databases as possible (remember WP option to just prefix the tables and put them in the same DB - forget it) - ’cause in case you get your DB suspended, you’ll get only one site down, and not all of them

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