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Great question.  Load balancing dynamic requests to a cluster of two mongrels (which is what the business plan provides) can handle two simultaneous requests.  Granted, these requests are processed usually in much less than a second so you can handle, say 5-10 hits per second with this cluster (depending on what kind of data is being served, of course).

The site should move to a dedicated environment (we have virtual dedicated plans coming soon) as soon as you, essentially, are not happy with the performance of your app.   There are many clients running 4-5 mongrels happily in a shared environment, some make the leap to dedicated after just two.

Cheers,
~William

hi,
so a cluster of 2 mongrels needs 100mb of memory correct?, and to add 2 more mongrels , all i need to do is pay for additional 100mb of memory right?

so if i am running 4 mongrels, a pthe site should be able to handle double the amount of requests of 2 mongrels?



also, is it possible yet to create a ssh account without the main account privalages? id like to give my partner an ssh account but without giving them the ability to change passwords.

Yes. You need to purchase 100MB of dedicted memory if you need to run 2 extra Mongrel instances. Also it is not possible to create an ssh account without the main account privileges. Only your cPanel username has the ssh access privilege.