Can you really fit 50 sites on a $15 server? No, you can’t, you can fit 94 (but I decided on 60)

Once we had decided on the software architecture and design of Unlimited, I decided to challenge our engineers to do something even more wild.

I wanted to take one of our High Frequency servers (you can also use them for Dedicated) and allow users to put over 50 sites on it.

And not just because “50 sites for $15” is helluva catchy (it is though, isn’t it 😎), but also because that is what our members have been asking for ever since we started offering hosting.

And if there is anything I love doing, it’s listening to our members.

So, after a LOT of hard work we made it… but why should you take our word for it?

Well, I decided to do the work for you and demonstrate how it can be done 🙂

And I didn’t just get 50+ sites on there, I got 94, although in the end I decided on 60… let me walk you through it.

Let’s break down each Unlimited site:

Total site size: 250 MB

WordPress core: 80 MB
WPMU DEV Pro Plugins: 150 MB
2025 Theme: 10 MB
Logs: 5 MB
Database: 5 MB

Now, I know you love math, so our Alpha MU plan has 32GB of NVME SSD storage and uses 9GB for system resources which leaves us with 23GB of storage for you.

That’s 23,522MB on which you could literally install 94 vanilla sites.

But of course you are going to want to add new themes, plugins and content to those sites and over time your database and logs will grow too.

So, if you instead go for 60 sites that gives you an extra 142MB to play with for each site (on top of everything else).

Which, with some nicely Smushed images we reckon is more than enough for the portfolio sites you would probably want to be hosting… plus quite a bit change, plenty for a few staging sites if you fancy too.

And ends up with another neat bit of maths… each of those sites will be costing you 25 cents (yep, $0.25) per month.

I can’t wait to see what our Premium members do with it :)

p.s. Did you like the featured image? :D