I have a server with whm and cpanel.
Does it have any kind of limits on how many accounts/domains it can handle?

Or is it something else that effects that?

//Andreas

Very good question, I was wondering the same.

I don't think there is a limit, though once you get into several hundred I imagine it would be quite hard to manage.

I know Linux can only handle 32,000 folders, and each new domain handles lots of folders, so it would be around the 10,000 region I presume.

ok, thanks for the quick answers guys.

I think it will be good for now since I only host a couple of 100 sites at the moment.

//Andreas

Originally Posted by Karl Evans

I know Linux can only handle 32,000 folders, and each new domain handles lots of folders, so it would be around the 10,000 region I presume.

Wow...I didn't know that. I doubt I'll ever get 10,000 customers though, well not on one server anyway.

Originally Posted by Gareth

Wow...I didn't know that. I doubt I'll ever get 10,000 customers though, well not on one server anyway.

Yah, thats a very interesting fact there. :drool:

hi all. I'm just here, looking around, getting some slightly higher traffic sites up and looking to learn about keeping them running (financially)... but i know a little bit about hosting

you can set up addon or parked domains til you go blue in the face, I've not seen a limit yet (although there may be one I don't know about.) Same goes for separate accounts... the number is generally not in itself a problem. it's the load that each site generates that will be the first limit. large nos of hits on each site will mean a lot of apache processes and therefore some will have to wait, -> high load. the sites themselves will generate some additional load if they're written with any kind of server side processing at all. Since load issues will be reached long before filesystem/ OS limits, it will depend on the size, activity and programming efficiency of the sites above other factors. Suck it and see.

Bagel.

But I think the server load would go way out before you ever got 10,000 domains on a server. All the processes you need to create just one account would be enough to throw any standard server off course. Now if you haev a $10,000 server, that's another story...

I think even before linux's limits.. how about your bandwidth .. checking the average recommended users per your connection

Yeah, I think it'd be bad to go over more than 1000 domains on one account.

I would think that you server is going to get overloaded far before you max out domains.

It's probably safe to say that you'll run into other limitations first before you hit a max number of domains/accounts. You're hardware and bandwidth can only support so much.