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Believe it or not, we get this question a lot. Let's first talk about how a normal web hosting company does it:

– They have a set limit of accounts they put on a server; it's usually in the range of 600-1000 accounts per server. They will fill that server up with 1000 new accounts and then move on to the next server, fill that up to 1000 accounts, move on, etc.

Our approach is a little different:

– We do not have a set number of accounts we put on a server; it can range from 300 to 2000 (Yes, 2000. We'll explain…)

When we set up a new server, we put all new accounts on it by default. We fill it about halfway full (around 300-400 accounts). That gives us a lot of breathing room on the server, usually around 75% CPU-free (idle). If we don't have another new server to put accounts on, we then add accounts to random boxes based on the CPU load. These servers are very big and beefy; however, if there are 50 very busy websites, they can make a server of only 300 accounts extremely slow. On the other hand, there could be a server with only websites that get 1-2 hits a day, which we could pack thousands of accounts on, and nobody would ever see any slowness.

We will never fill up a server if the server's CPU (idle) percentage is less than 50%. We always want 50% of the CPU idle as a reserve if there's a burst of traffic (If someone gets DoSed, Reddit hugged, slashdotted, etc.) or if a big process is running, such as backups. It's a horrible idea to fill up a server all at once as you will not know how busy that server is for months down the road when those websites get popular, and by then, it will be too late, and customers will notice and end up leaving.