100 websites with Hostgator I WANT OUT!!!!

I know right, nothing more than raising post count. On a side note, I've replied via PM with your requests.

Thanks,
Brent

You told the OP that putting 100 websites on a reseller account is a bad idea, implying there is a limit.

The 100 sites could well be static HTML pages with little traffic, but we don't know.

To blindly advise him that his account(s) are overloading the server and to upgrade to Dedicated based on the tiny amount of info we have been given is wrong.

To the OP, have you contacted HostGator about this, have they given you any indication as to why the server your accounts reside on is running slow? Has it been an ongoing issue or stemmed from the recent HG datacenter migration?

I have a blank wordpress website with the default theme on one of my hostgator account and it is very slow. I don't need a VPS just to get hostgator to host my blank webpage. It doesn't really make sense to be honest.

& no, I don't have any other sites on my hostgator account at the moment since I usually move my very popular sites from hg to a dedicated server so atm I have 1 fresh site on hostgater that takes 5-40 seconds to load. Yeah It's time to look for another hosting company for now.

There's no intent here. Chances are, even with 100+ sites on that server, the problem is the sheer amount of sites being run on the server in "addition" to his.

1 website could max out a dual quad Xeon

5,000 websites could max out a dual quad Xeon.

Static sites, hell, they could probably run a few thousand Wordpress installs along with another few thousand static sites and have no problems. It comes down to how the environment is managed.

There's a lot of factors that play into the equation here and given my few thousand migrations of experience with sites "off" of unlimited everything web hosts, the problems lie with the outdated hardware, no server side optimization, etc etc. I've logged into servers before that have had almost 10,000 accounts on them, not to mention each of those accounts then has addon domain, subdomains, sub directories etc.

Believe me, with the normal procedures at these companies, if the OP's sites were the problem he'd either have been forced to host elsewhere or throttled and forced to upgrade. Typically, the large, corporate web hosts tend to run at 80/90%+ capacity, which leaves NO room for resource spikes. Get a bit of traffic? BOOM, you're shut down because the server(s) are at their peak.

EDIT: 9 times out of 10 because everyone tries to pile tons of Wordpress sites onto a shared account that runs under the same user, MySQL is what gets choked first. The infamous Wordpress "continuous/slow loading dashboard" is a tell tale sign of MySQL problems. And by "ton" I don't mean 10 or 20, I mean 70,80,90,100+ addon domains. I've seen cPanel accounts with over 100's of addon domains over the years which spells disaster.