What is the concurrent connections limit?
Shared hosting accounts are limited to 20 concurrent connections. This is not the number of visitors allowed on your site at a time — it’s the number of simultaneous active connections to PHP or Perl scripts.
What this means in practice
Section titled “What this means in practice”- A “concurrent connection” is an active request being processed by the server at any given instant.
- If each page takes approximately one second to load, you would need 20 visitors hitting your site at the exact same moment to reach this limit.
- Static resources (images, CSS, JavaScript) served directly by the web server do not count against this limit.
- With proper caching (e.g., LiteSpeed Cache), many requests are served without invoking PHP at all, significantly increasing your effective visitor capacity.
If your site consistently reaches this limit, it may be time to consider a semi-dedicated or cloud vps plan for higher limits.