SavvyShopper
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I am shopping around for hosting right now before I buy xenForo because there are still Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals going on. Shared hosting advertise "unlimited everything" which we all know is not true, but more importantly, I need to know the resource usages of a typical large forum.
For example, a forum with 500,000 users, 15 million posts, images allowed, and lets assume about 10,000 users visit/browse the site simultaneously.
What kind of resources would I expect to use based on those characteristics? So let me get this straight, each image or text document counts as an inode, and HostGator has a 100,000 inode limit for shared hosting. So a file can be any size and still count towards 1 inode, but then there is the disk space to consider (because shared hosting is not unlimited after all). Also, the number of simultaneous visitors would exceed certain daily bandwidth limits?
For example, a forum with 500,000 users, 15 million posts, images allowed, and lets assume about 10,000 users visit/browse the site simultaneously.
What kind of resources would I expect to use based on those characteristics? So let me get this straight, each image or text document counts as an inode, and HostGator has a 100,000 inode limit for shared hosting. So a file can be any size and still count towards 1 inode, but then there is the disk space to consider (because shared hosting is not unlimited after all). Also, the number of simultaneous visitors would exceed certain daily bandwidth limits?