Originally Posted by Loki

Pardon me for popping in a 'serious' reply...

it really doesn't matter if you have 17k a day or 200k a day with hostgator, they are totally random when it comes to "server overload"

I have a shared biz account there that I use for demos for mainstream clients, I've been running a flash chatroom demo for a client trying to get them to buy the chat and one of my team to install / run it for them on their own website...

Over the past few weeks there have been between 5 - 40 members in the chatroom, and Hostgator has pulled the script 4 times now (last night was #4) the funniest thing is ALL 4 times they pulled it for "server overload" there were diff numbers of users in the chatroom, but NO TIME was that number over 20 users (the nights that have 20 - 40 users there is NO server overload lmao)

and for anyone that cares, each user of the chat sends 1 server request every 3 seconds, but according to Hostgator....

10 users = overload (200 requests per min)
15 users = overload (300 requests per min)
09 users = overload (180 requests per min)
18 users = overload (360 requests per min)

20-40 users = no prob (400 - 800 requests per min)

Hostgator is good for small shit, or running a site demo, (and even they have said to me that they work best for "standard" sites, html, images and text only!)

as others have said "you get what you pay for"

-Loki-