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Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
#52I wrote an article about this called Shared Hosting is Bad for Business. I pointed out that shared hosting as a business model depends on the failure of it's customers' websites. You can't run 1,000 high traffic websites on a single server, typically, but you can run 1,000 no-traffic websites on a single server. You see this in practice because basically every shared hosting provider will disable your account if your…
For the purpose of discussion can anyone define req per min for high, medium, low traffic web sites?
Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
#53Well, I can tell you that hosting WP sites on a shared host is a big pain in the ... . When a client get's hacked, everyone on the same server (or at least same IP) get's 'tested' for WP vuln. and hacked as well. I found 8 WP accounts hacked in a similar way, on a shared server, one after the other, with the server correctly configured. Smaller (local) shared hosting companies are good because they offer quick suppor…
Can you recommend some good local hosts?
Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
#5470% of the world available websites run on shared hosting. Most small to medium businesses run on shared hosting.
Disclaimer: worked for Cpanel, which is powering those sites.