What's the max number of members Cpanel can work fine on 1 server?

astounding · 09-08-2006, 04:48 AM

Hey,

I currently have 30,000 members but they're on a xpanel system (which is designed for free web hosting).

And these 30,000 are all on 1 server and there's absolutely no problem with the load.

However I was thinking of deleting all my members and installing Cpanel (along with iPanel) in order to provide a better service.

So my question is: Can Cpanel support this many members on 1 server?

Please let me know...
Andre

tyros8000 · 09-08-2006, 12:44 PM

It should do, there is no reason why not.

Have you tried asking on the cPanel forum?

jcink · 09-08-2006, 05:50 PM

cPanel? I don't have any experience using cPanel as a hosting panel, but from what I've read the way it works, you cannot fit a lot of accounts into it before the server starts slowing up. I do not know if this is false. I think 30,000 would explode.

tyros8000 · 09-08-2006, 06:41 PM

30,000 accounts is a hell of a lot for a server. how big is the server? or how small are the hosting accounts?

profusehost · 09-09-2006, 03:40 PM

it depends on what you are offering - space, bandwidth, email options, file size limits, activity of the sites etc. Keep in mind cpanel will use cpu when its updating bandwidth, logs etc. We try to keep it at 1000 per server.

*uploadpic* · 09-16-2006, 05:46 PM

From the sounds of things I would keep them as they are, moving them will be a large amount of hassle and downtime.

gzoogle · 09-17-2006, 06:01 AM

he obviously cant leave them as they are, he cant grow his host past 30,000 users with xpanel then

Alex-m5 · 09-17-2006, 11:28 AM

The real problem is not the number of accounts, but number of active accounts. After the user registers, uploads his website, configures everything - they don't login to cPanel too often.
From my experience, properly tuned iPanel&cPanel server with good hardware (dual CPU and 2+ GBs of RAM) can handle 300 registrations/day without too much trouble. However, you'll have to disable some of most resource consuming cPanel features, (like cpanellogd, phpsuexec), and hack some of scripts (from open-source part of cPanel, like suspendacct, and mkvhostpasswd).
As for max number of users, currently I have about 36 thousand users on one of the servers, and it works pretty well (though disks are full, so I don't add more users there).

numberonehost · 10-01-2006, 11:02 AM

You are asking for trouble when you are trying to host that many on cpanel on one server, also 2 control panels on one server has caused me problems in the past.

batcavenet · 10-27-2006, 07:26 PM

I would estimate 300 for cpanel - it is not good at all for many accounts.