Comments on: Hostgator: pros and cons of their web hosting offer

By: Ryder

Ryder — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:55:38 +0000

very helpful post, you should post more stuff related to this.

By: WebTenet

WebTenet — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:58:48 +0000

The email policy page of HostGator on their Knowledge Base says “Many of our servers have a limit of 60 POP3/IMAP checks per hour per e-mail address”. Therefore if you have 12 email addresses, it is NOT true that each can check their email 5 times an hour. The POP3 check is per-hour per-email address. So if you have 100 or 500 email addresses, each can still check up to 60 times an hour (i.e once every minute). Honestly speaking, however busy person one may be, checking emails once every 5 minutes is usually sufficient, because if there are several new emails with attachments, it would take a couple of minutes to download to your Outlook.

Regarding the inode limit, I think this is really very harsh. I suggest many of my clients to host with HostGator, but some of them are avid users of “webmail” instead of outlook. They don’t like to delete old emails from their inbox, don’t clean the trash regularly, and also save send messages in the Sent Items folder. I have a feeling that such clients will quickly reach the 50000 inode limit. Any workaround for that? I just can’t force someone to use outlook instead of webmail when the package says unlimited space, bandwidth and email accounts !!!

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:39:33 +0000

Hola Roger,
crec que per no tindre limitació d’inodes has de triar un “dedicated server” que en diuen (”servidor dedicat”? “d’ús propi?”). Més car, però sense les limitacions que comente.

Per cert, molt interessant el teu blog! On el tens ara?

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:28:38 +0000

Hola,

La veritat estava a punt de contractar el servei amb hostgator però necessite molts fitxers de l’ordre de mil·lions… Estic buscant algun altre servei tipus hostmonster però no sé si tindran aquesta limitació, la resta no m’afecten. En saps algun?

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:56:33 +0000

Hi SurplusGadgets, I haven't used Gallery myself, but from what you say and the number of inodes Konstantin Mikhaylov reported (check out the table here) it does sound like an inode nightmare. It's clear that one hostgator account would not be able to support more than a Gallery installation... You didn't leave a link, if you drop by again, do leave it, as I would like to see what a Gallery page looks like! Thanks Abdullatif, glad I could help!

By: Abdullatif

Abdullatif — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:49:43 +0000

hello, thank you for the excellent article, i was attacked by the inodes, and you were my salvation, thank you!

By: SurplusGadgets

SurplusGadgets — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:56:49 +0000

FYI, Gallery is a real killer. Each photo is a minimum 3 inodes because it saves the original photo, the resized photo, and the thumbnail. Then add inodes for each album in the gallery — and it ads up quickly. I have 10,000 photos in my gallery and, along with the few other software installs, easily hit the limit.

Nice to hear the email limit was increased. I can go in and tweak my crontab job with PHPList now. This has been a real pain for anyone hosting a group and has forced us to move email out to paid services or yahoogroups.com — but then off our domain. SPAM and email is a real pain these days and hosting services like hostgator, ipowerweb, etc are simply punting the issue but not telling anyone. What is a non-profit to do?

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:57:29 +0000

3335 files + 206 folders are 3541 inodes but beware, there are some other type of "files" that are not counted as files but will count as inodes. But they will represent +50 extra inodes tops. DarkBoy, check out the follow-up post The attack of the inodes - how to find out your number for more information or to contribute to our table in part 2!

By: DarkBoy

DarkBoy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:37:14 +0000

hello an question, i have phpnuke8.1 with 3335 files and 206 folders after install, how many inodes are?

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:24:22 +0000

Hi again dogma. It depends on what do you want to host, type of programs, web pages, number of users… If you give me more information and maybe leave the URL of a web page you already have I can have a look. Did you ask Hostgator about Postie?

By: dogma

dogma — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:08:13 +0000

Thanks lady, I accept any suggestions.

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:11:19 +0000

You are welcome dogma. I’m really glad you found the pros and cons useful and good luck with whatever hosting company you use finally.

By: dogma

dogma — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:01:07 +0000

I understand. Thanks a lot for your tips.

By: LadyRostand

LadyRostand — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:39 +0000

Hi dogma, my experience is with shared accounts. As far as I’ve read, all the pros and cons I’ve discussed also hold with reseller accounts. Dedicated servers on the other hand have special (laxer) rules.

I would suggest asking your question regarding POSTIE to Hostgator directly. They are quite good at answering them.

Thanks for passing by!

By: dogma

dogma — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:39:45 +0000

Hello. I want to know if the the commented Hostgator: pros and cons of their web hosting offer applies even into Reseller Web Hosting and the Dedicated Servers.

I need to use POSTIE (from infradig system) to send emails among the email accounts I would host into HostGator, but I seems No Direct SMTP mailers are allowed… Is this correct or POSTIE is not considered Direct SMTP mailer??

Great advices.
Thanks.