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Hostgator says : Every time a file is created on the server or uploaded, an inode(index node) is created, which containg information about the file and identifies it on the system.Bacause server reliability is the number one concern, we recommend limiting your usage below 250,000(2 lakhs 50 thousand) inodes.

All the hosting plans(Hatchling,Baby,Business) are having the same inodes limit.if u need more inodes to ur website u should take the dedicated server.They wont increase the increase the inode limit for hosting plans.This limit is shown left bottom of the hostgator cpanel.The folowing figure shows the inodes limit in hostgator cpanel.

Hostgator shared hosting plan, allows 50,000 inodes limit. This means you can host 50,000 files in your single hostgator web hosting plan. What happend if you exceed this inodes limit and have more than 50,000 files in your hostgator account? Is that mean you can’t host anymore files? NO… that is not the answer. You can host more than that. Up to 250,000 files can be hosted in your hostgator hosting account. Problem about the 50k inode limits is that only the first 50000 files will be backup periodically, remaining will be skipped. If you have no choice but to host over 50,000 files at your host gator shared hosting… its recommendded to carry own server backup by yourself regularly to prevent data lost.