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Does a shared hosting server have to be 10Gbps uplinked?
davidlabib
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I have AX162 from hetzner that i intend to make it a cPanel shared hosting
Do i need to have it uplinked with 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps is good to go?
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AX162 might be overkill for shared hosting imo, the server is probably more suited for VPS hosting.
Also depending on how many customers you intend to have, that 1G port is going to become a bottleneck very quick once your customers grow.
I though on more customers on a same server would make me save on the licenses
So 1 big server is better than multiple small servers in terms of software licenses such as cpanel ,etc
Shared hosting ran on 1gbps for, what, a decade before 10gbps become common?
I think you could scale pretty far on 1gbps before the port becomes the bottleneck.
But you don't have to start with 10gbps do you? Why not start with 1gbps and then as you get close to the threshold, move people to a 10gbps box. You should strive to setup your infrastructure to make this eventual move as seamless as possible.
1Gbps is really enough for shared hosting. And for hetzner, if you switch to 10Gbps uplink your traffic will be limited to 20TB/m instead of "unmetered"
Changing from 1 Gpbs to 10 Gpbs in the future is fatal, as then you will have to change the ip for sure , which will make so much downtime
Also not everyone is using your nameservers so this would be a really big issue
Why would you have to change the ip for a port upgrade?
It's hetzner policy
When you upgrade the uplink speed they move the server to another rack that supports 10 Gbps speed