{"id":224592,"date":"2026-05-01T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/?p=224592"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:37:28","slug":"can-you-really-fit-50-sites-on-a-15-server-no-you-cant-you-can-fit-94-but-i-decided-on-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/can-you-really-fit-50-sites-on-a-15-server-no-you-cant-you-can-fit-94-but-i-decided-on-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you really fit 50 sites on a $15 server? No, you can’t, you can fit 94 (but I decided on 60)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once we had decided on the software architecture and design<\/a> of Unlimited<\/a>, I decided to challenge our engineers to do something even more wild.<\/p>\n

I wanted to take one of our High Frequency servers (you can also use them for Dedicated<\/a>) and allow users to put over 50<\/strong> sites on it.<\/p>\n

And not just because \u201c50 sites for $15\u201d is helluva catchy (it is though, isn’t it \ud83d\ude0e), but also because that is what our members have been asking for ever since we started offering hosting.<\/p>\n

And if there is anything I love doing, it\u2019s listening to our members.<\/p>\n

So, after a LOT of hard work we made it\u2026 but why should you take our word for it?<\/p>\n

Well, I decided to do the work for you and demonstrate how it can be done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And I didn\u2019t just get 50+ sites on there, I got 94, although in the end I decided on 60\u2026 let me walk you through it.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s break down each Unlimited site:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total site size: 250 MB<\/em><\/p>\n

WordPress core: 80 MB<\/em>
\nWPMU DEV Pro Plugins: 150 MB<\/em>
\n2025 Theme: 10 MB<\/em>
\nLogs: 5 MB<\/em>
\nDatabase: 5 MB<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 23,522MB on which you could literally install 94 vanilla sites.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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

Which, with some nicely Smushed<\/a> images we reckon is more than enough for the portfolio sites you would probably want to be hosting\u2026 plus quite a bit change, plenty for a few staging sites if you fancy too.<\/p>\n

And ends up with another neat bit of maths\u2026 each of those sites will be costing you 25 cents (yep, $0.25) per month.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t wait to see what our Premium members<\/a> do with it :)<\/p>\n

p.s. Did you like the featured image? :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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