Can you please tell me about whats the maximum amount of simutaneous users you can expect to use on a shared host?

Posted by AntiNSA on June 6, 2010 at 9:11am

Hi! I am troubleshooting my site being a resource hog on a shared server, and need to figure out the limits of drupal use on a shared server.

What is your experiance? I am getting timeouts at around 50 users simultaneously. I have tried to stop using all dev versions of modules and trying to improve my caching skills. I just need rto know what is the most users I can expect with an optimized drupal on a shared hosting server.

Thanks!

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Depends entirely on the shared host.

Posted by criznach on June 13, 2010 at 5:15pm

Depends entirely on the shared host. Are these logged in users or anonymous? IMHO, 50 simultaneous logged-in users is pushing it for shared hosting. If they are anonymous users, installing boost will help a ton, and you can probably sustain fairly heavy traffic. Once that starts to bog down, I'd say it's time to upgrade to at least a VPS.

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