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Namecheap Stellar Limits 2026: 1GB RAM, 50 Emails/Hour, 300K Inodes
The short answer
**Quick verdict:** Namecheap Stellar supports **3 websites, 20GB SSD and 30 mailboxes**, but the operating envelope is finite: **1GB RAM, 20 entry processes, 300,000 inodes and 50 outgoing emails per hour per domain**. Internal server backups are intended roughly twice a week and are not guaranteed.
At a glance
- Best for
- Small cPanel portfolios that understand Stellar's RAM, email, inode and backup thresholds.
- Price model
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- Finite RAM/concurrency, 300K inodes, 50 emails/hour/domain and weaker backup controls than higher tiers.
Three sites share one account budget
Stellar's 3-site and 20GB allowance sits inside one cPanel account. Namecheap's current resource guide gives ordinary shared accounts **50% CPU, 1GB physical memory, 20 entry processes and 50MB/s I/O**, with temporary burst above the baseline. A few cached brochure sites can fit easily; multiple dynamic stores can hit concurrency or memory first.
Email has separate limits
Stellar includes **30 mailboxes**. The current email policy limits it to **50 outgoing emails/hour/domain**, and one cPanel message cannot exceed 100 recipients. Shared-hosting email storage is capped at **10GB account-wide**. That is suitable for ordinary business mail, not newsletters or large automated sends.
Backup eligibility can disappear before the hard inode cap
Namecheap says Stellar internal backups are ideally performed **twice weekly**, but not guaranteed; AutoBackup belongs to higher tiers. The AUP and backup policy say accounts using more than **25GB disk** or **200,000 inodes** can be removed from weekly system backups. That backup cutoff is lower than Stellar's **300,000-inode** hard limit, so an account can remain allowed while losing provider backup eligibility.
300K inodes are a practical capacity ceiling
The current AUP caps Stellar at **300,000 inodes**. WordPress files, plugins, caches, thumbnails, messages and logs all count. As rough screening math, three equally sized sites would average about **100,000 inodes each**; that is not a per-site entitlement. The same policy limits some multimedia, archive, database-dump and compiled-file categories to 10GB portions of a shared account.
When Plus becomes the practical upgrade
Stellar Plus raises memory to **2GB**, entry processes to **30**, email sending to **200/hour/domain**, removes the 3-site cap and adds AutoBackup. Upgrade when the real problem is RAM, concurrent PHP, backup control or email throughput—not merely because a marketing label says "unlimited." Recent 2026 reviews broadly agree that Stellar fits modest sites but that backup certainty and entry resources are its main compromises.
Buyer checklist
Before checkout, confirm the term and renewal, then verify whether **3 sites, 20GB, 30 mailboxes, 1GB RAM, 20 entry processes, 300K inodes and 50 emails/hour/domain** match the workload. Keep an independent backup outside the account because Namecheap says server backups are for restoration and customers should maintain their own copies. **Bottom line:** Stellar is strong budget hosting when the workload is small and predictable; the real purchase decision is whether three sites can comfortably share its RAM, concurrency, inode, email and backup limits.
