Is bluehost robust/fast enough for high traffic site?

[ekhtr]

First, I want to say I love bluehost. I use it for some extremely low activity vanity/family sites, and their support and price has been great. Register a domain and in 10 minutes it's live to the world. for $10. wow.

However, even for my little sites, wep-page response time seems way too slow to consider if I were to ever want to use it for commercial purposes.

So, I have a question related to that: is there some sort of "isFast" flag somewhere I'm missing? Is this flag "set" for you if you upgrade your plan or something?

Can some other folks indicate the kind of high traffic they are handling with satisfactory response, and what you've done to get that performance? Maybe the problem's all me here.

Thanks in advance.

[engineeringguy]

I run a couple of small sites as well (less than 100 unique hits a week) but see traffic increasing exponentially in the next year or so. . . good question. We would be interested in paying more $$$ to get faster speeds.

[ekhtr]

Thanks for your info, engineering guy

You know, there's an option on apache for it to report the time it took to process a request, and this can be written to the access logs (this is what you see when you download the raw logs). Just seeing that would tell me right away which side of apache the (assumed) performance issue may be on. Not sure if it's a conscious decision on bh or not not to include these timings in the logs.

I'll bug support about it to try to find out.

[matt22]

i decided to try bluehost - since they are so cheap and seem to offer so much

my website is: www.chooseandwatch.com (http://www.chooseandwatch.com/)and was moved to bluehost yesterday - it usualy has about 15.000 visitors/day

so far it works, but recently i have some problems uploading files for counter on webpage to work

before i was on dedicated server for 100 usd a month :D

so lets see if bluehost will be able to handel my traffic for few usd a month
:cool:

[ekhtr]

yeah - you'll be a good data point :)

what did you do your site in?

[ekhtr]

I just read Matt Heaton's blog (http://www.mattheaton.com/), and he indicates the some performance improvements may be coming based on a recent effort. Maybe this will address the current state I seem to be concerned about.

[indy2kro]

Well, it handles easily a few thousand visitors per day on one of my websites (Fun house (http://funhouse.bubble.ro) in case you want to visit it), so I don't think there's any reason to worry about any small-medium websites.

[matt22]

honestly it is not bad - for the price you pay you really get a lot.

maybe some problems with php/mysql connection since my visitor counter on the webpage appears and dissapears (have no idea why)

but still very impresive (for 7 $ hosting)

[matt22]

bluehost is the worst hosting i ever had

my account is suspended - i have no idea why (no notice...), live support is offline (why do they call it live support than)

moving to another server

[areidmtm]

bluehost is the worst hosting i ever had

my account is suspended - i have no idea why (no notice...), live support is offline (why do they call it live support than)

moving to another server

You're probably getting CPU quota suspensions. What software are you running?

using happens with PHPBB or some other gallery or forum software not properly optimized for shared hosting.

[matt22]

You're probably getting CPU quota suspensions. What software are you running?

using happens with PHPBB or some other gallery or forum software not properly optimized for shared hosting.

and why are things like this not mentioned anywhere when you sign up for hosting?

[areidmtm]

and why are things like this not mentioned anywhere when you sign up for hosting?

Unfortunately, you're going to find that with any host. They all have "restrictions" that aren't listed, especially in a shared hosting environment. To find about all features and restrictions, you would have to call in, no matter what host you're with.

That's why alot of hosts have user forums.

[matt22]

Unfortunately, you're going to find that with any host. They all have "restrictions" that aren't listed, especially in a shared hosting environment. To find about all features and restrictions, you would have to call in, no matter what host you're with.

That's why alot of hosts have user forums.

the worst thing is that you find out this kind of restrictions after you have already purchased hosting - if you ask me this is FRAUD

[areidmtm]

No this is NOT a fraud. If it were, then EVERY host out there is a fraud (and a lot of other business that omit certain technical aspects of their business). That kind of "technical" stuff is assumed omitted in every hosters feature list.

It you need to know more technical things about a hosters, you email support. Here with bluehost, you can always get a prorated refund.

[matt22]

do you think that someone can really use(or come near) more than 999 gb of bandwidth/m before you say that they use too much cpu power and close thair account? - it is impossible

it is like buying a car where you think it has 4 tires and when you buy it you figure out that it only has 3 tires and 1 cylinder is missilg

[areidmtm]

Bluehost fully stands by what they sell and have assured us many many times that we are all entitled to the full bandwidth and space. Bandwidth and CPU are two completely different things.

[dixieau]

Unfortunately, you're going to find that with any host. They all have "restrictions" that aren't listed, especially in a shared hosting environment. To find about all features and restrictions, you would have to call in, no matter what host you're with.

That's why alot of hosts have user forums.

This is so true what areidmtm said matt22, over the past 3 weeks I have scoured the internet looking at other hosts and have tried 3, the first was lousy - got a refund, the second went broke in the second week - lost my money, the third - well they are ok - not great - site has already been down and it's my third day, thankfully this one is 30day refund, so after reading Matt's blog I am going to site tight and wait for the improvements which sound really promising, I am actually excited about it.

The only thing I wish is that it was easier to maintain the addon domains or that BH had a multidomain suite, then I would be jumping with glee!

[reis]

mtm what is the solution for this issue dont say ask for the ticket or go contact live help desk i did that allready they cant fix this, yes iff you pay you moove to another server and that server has 5-10% moore thats mean 25-30% quota system that is not enough i cant search at my forum

i lost to much visitors with this quota system whe have only 20% why not 50% btw if i think you have 1 server and everybody is on that server overloaded i guess

btw how much hosting (customers) contains on 1 server i like to know that

[areidmtm]

mtm what is the solution for this issue dont say ask for the ticket or go contact live help desk i did that allready they cant fix this, yes iff you pay you moove to another server and that server has 5-10% moore thats mean 25-30% quota system that is not enough i cant search at my forum

i lost to much visitors with this quota system whe have only 20% why not 50% btw if i think you have 1 server and everybody is on that server overloaded i guess

btw how much hosting (customers) contains on 1 server i like to know that

Optimizing your MySQL tables and quires. Also getting a dedicated IP helps ($30/year)

Most of those pre-written scripts are not intended for a shared hosting environment.

Search the forums and Google.

[felgall]

do you think that someone can really use(or come near) more than 999 gb of bandwidth/m before you say that they use too much cpu power and close thair account? - it is impossible

it is like buying a car where you think it has 4 tires and when you buy it you figure out that it only has 3 tires and 1 cylinder is missilg

What has bandwidth got to do with CPU usage? They are two totally different unrelated things.

It is like buying a car and complaining because you can't find the bathroom.

[reis]

Optimizing your MySQL tables and quires. Also getting a dedicated IP helps ($30/year)

Most of those pre-written scripts are not intended for a shared hosting environment.

Search the forums and Google.


i cant optimize its gives me cpu qouta they told me dedicated ip will help your download speed and stable speed its nothing to do with cpu system

[pllobell]

What has bandwidth got to do with CPU usage? They are two totally different unrelated things.

It is like buying a car and complaining because you can't find the bathroom.

That was honestly the funniest thing I've heard all day.

[areidmtm]

What has bandwidth got to do with CPU usage? They are two totally different unrelated things.

It is like buying a car and complaining because you can't find the bathroom.

yeah, that was pretty dang good!

[free2001]

I have a forum with 100 unique visitors a day on peek days plus a few bot's tearing over everything. I have no problems with CPU or anything. Not high traffic but gives you an idea at least.

[roban]

The answer derpends on what you are running. If it's e-commerce the answer is a resounding "NO". I just moved mine from Bluehost and it's faster than I've ever seen it. Functions that used to cause the infamous CPU Overload on BH are a thing of the past. I pay more but IT'S WORTH IT. My other sites will be transferred soon.

[indy2kro]

Yes, Bluehost servers are really fast, but remember as your visitors grow, you should try to minimize the processor usage for your scripts, especially for sql queries .. try to implement caching where you can, or you'll just have problems and blame it on the server ..