[wp-forums] Bluehost & multisite

[Otto]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:48 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know if Bluehost limit db tables as opposed to overall db size?
>
> I've got a poster who claims that he's been told by Bluehost that he cannot
> have more than 99 tables in his multisite db as it impacts on performance. I
> can see why they might say this but would like to know if it can be
> corroborated first - especially as they''re top if the Recommended Hosts
> page.

They mention 1000 tables here: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/000429

Now, to be fair, if you get close to 1000 tables on a MySQL database,
then it definitely would make sense to start using HyperDB (or
similar) and start splitting the sites across multiple DBs. So they do
have a point there.

But 1000 is much greater than "99".

-Otto