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[MediocreFred]

Hello,

I have been researching a web hosting provider for the last few days. I am looking for shared web/domain hosting.

My primary needs are email and a small website (4 pages, a photo gallery, a few short home video clips, at most 10 unique visitors per year that view the content about once every 3 months or so) for the primary domain and another small website (2 pages, around 20 pictures and a few short audio/video clips).

I like the specifications of the S-200 package. However, after browsing through the forums on webhostingtalk.com and reading the TOS of other hosts, I have a few questions:

1. Is there a limit on the number of inodes? If so, what is it and is it the same for the S-100, S-200 and S-300 packages?

2. The S-200 is supposed to allow up to 250GB of data. Is there any restriction on what kind of files are allowed? For instance, some hosts specifically state that the server cannot be used as a file store and should only be used for websites and email. I don't see anything like this in E2's TOS. Does this mean that I can have a 10 GB website and email and use the other 240GB to store (perfectly legal) files such as, an encrypted disk image of my desktop PC?

3. Is there any size limit of individual files that can be stored on the server? Some hosts have a 100MB limit per file while others are OK with 1GB files.

4. Does E2's regular backups include all 250GB of data? Some hosts state that if the disk usage goes over 15GB, it'll no longer be backed up.

5. E2's shared hosting specs are extremely generous compared to most other hosts. It's a given that shared hosting implies hundreds of sites/accounts on a single server. This implies that CPU and RAM usage become the bottleneck. How do you envision a site to use all/most of the 250GB of disk space and 40TB of monthly bandwidth without negatively impacting other sites/accounts on that server? I am just trying to understand a use case that would be acceptable. All of the reading I have done suggests that for any sites that need more than a few GB of disk space and bandwidth should consider VPS or dedicated servers.

I really like the pricing and specifications of your shared hosting, and want to understand the gotchas before I jump in. I know that you have a 60 day money back guarantee but, I have live sites and can't afford to keep switching hosts.

Thanks,
MediocreFred.