Reverse IP Lookup: How Many Neighbors You Have?

Just recently I changed web hosts. While doing my research to find a reliable company, one of the parameters I wanted to investigate was how many and what kind of sites were hosted on the same server.
Many companies try to stuff as many customers as they can into the same machine to save costs. This became specially noticeable in the last few years with the advent of the big “overseller” companies promising enormous amounts of disk space and bandwidth at impossible low prices. Everyone has seen those offerings: “1 TB disk space and unlimited bandwidth for just US$ 5 / month!”, etc. Their reasoning is that since most users have low demands or inactive accounts, it doesn’t make a difference to pack a truckload of them in the same space as long as the average is not significantly affected.
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Bluehost Doubles CPU Quota

Matt Heaton, the president of Bluehost.com, announced via a message in their forums that the CPU quota for their users has been doubled, and is already in place.
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