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I guess this is what most users wanted to find out – How many customers or account in a shared hosting server? You can’t easily find it from the web hosting company, they will not tell you. Even if they did, it could be fake.

Answer :- It varies from 100 to 800 hundreds with average 300 accounts. The figure depends on a few factor -

• Monthly cost of the server
• Monthly support fee per server.
• Monthly hosting fee they can charge per hosting account.
• Processing power , e.g. CPU, RAM, Storage and backup storage.

If a dedicated server is priced at $250/month and support at average $150 , then the cost per server will be $350.

Assuming the hosting fee is at $4 per month, the hosting company needs at least 100 account to breakeven. After factor in profits and cost to acquire customer, a hosting company needs at least another 200 accounts on the same server to be profitable.

Server processing power & ram – A Quad core server with 2 GB Ram would probably server at m0st 200 account without performance problem. 4GB server, however, can host another 200 accounts.

Most average user doesn’t care about the number of accounts on the server as long as the account does it’s job. If you have problem with the hosting account and suspect the accounts are FULL, contact the hosting company to move account OR change the hosting company.

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Question : Is there a shared hosting running memcached ?

Introduction :-

memcached (pronunciation: mem-cache-dee.) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in memory to reduce the number of times the database must be read.

Memcached lacks authentication and security features, meaning it should only be used on servers with a firewall set up appropriately. By default, memcached uses the port 11211.

see more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached

Now back to the question, Is there a shared hosting offer memcached pre-installed ?

There could be shared hosts offering memcached but it doesn’t make sense. If your application utilize memcache, that would probably means that your website is large and create many dynamic pages on the fly, so websites like this usually will not host on shared hosting.  And secondly, memcached lacks of authentication which mean other user on the shared hosting is able to retrieve information from memcached if keys is correct.

You should look for a VPS or dedictaed if you want to utilize memcache – and honestly, that is where it makes more sense. If you legitimately need memcache, then typically you are out of the realm of shared hosting. Typical file caching methods are more then adequate for shared hosting.

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