Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/28/07 14:53

On 28 Sep, 14:11, fulio pen <fulio...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I host my own web site by paying $50 per year to a server company. I
> wonder if there is a limit on the number of visits to a site or page
> at the same time.

I very much doubt it (literally), although this is subject to the
tricky interpretation of "visit", "site" and "page".

Almost certainly you've purchased a limited amount of server capacity.
This is limited by how many HTML pages it can "serve" over time, in
terms of HTTP requests and the capacity to deliver them. How that maps
onto "user visits" is a difficult question - it's just hard to know
what we mean by "one user" and "a visit".

This will also depend on how much server load is required to serve one
of your pages. A static HTML page will be served with less load than
generating it from PHP and a database. You've probably bought some mix
of "load", "bandwidth" and "disk capacity", but the details are up to
your host. In particular (for complex sites), are you going to find
sharing the server with another site to be a problem? If you both try
using complex highh-load pages, you might run out of "server load"
first. If you're sharing space with an MP3 or video download site,
then it's likely to be "bandwidth" that's the limit.

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