[wp-forums] Bluehost & multisite

[Andrea Rennick]

Or even ShardDB which divides the db into whatever you want. Either way..
there's ways to handle it.

Yeah, 1000 is a lot higher than 99.


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> 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
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