Confusing settings and behavioure for my User Profile service inside my on-premises sharepoint farm 2013 [closed]

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I am working on a sharepoint enterprise farm on-premises. and inside the farm i find these settings regarding the User Profile Service which have been set previously by our customer.

• central administration >> application management >> select the web application>> self-service site creation. i find these settings:-

• central administration >> managed services >> User Profile >> My site. i find these settings:-

• central administration >> managed services >> User Profile. i find that there are 25 user profiles.

• when i view all the site collections. i can find only 4 site collections for the personal sites.

now the confusion i am getting are as follow:-

1. i can count around 20++ users which have their personal sites created. because when i click on a user name inside the sites, i will be redirected to such a site, and this is the case for at-least 20 users:-

but when i checked the site collections , i can only find that there are 4 personal site collections (as shown above)?? so what is the reason. i was assuming that i should get 20 personal site collections, not only 4?

2. when i manually navigate to one of the personal site url by typing the following "http://XXX/my/personal/user_abc" i will be redirected to the following url "/my/Person.aspx?accountname=" ?? so what does this mean? now the URL for the mysite site collection should be something such as "/my/personal/.." and not "/my/person.aspx?accountname" ??

3. inside the web application's self-service site creation, what does "Be Hidden from users" for "start a site" mean ? and if i am hiding this from users,, then how the 4 site collections have been created?? could this setting be changed after the 4 site collections have been created.?

4. final question . now out customer have around 120 users. so will there be any drawbacks if the 120 users created there own my-sites?? could this slow the sharepoint ? or it is a matter of storage ?? not a matter of server RAM consumption?

can anyone adivce on my above 4 points please?

Answer 1

1. What you are seeing, is profile page (Person.aspx?accountname=??) of the user, where u will get information about users. U are seeing 4 sites because 4 users created their mysite so far. if you browser the site which u are seeing from central admin then you will get the shared document library page.
2. Again, only 4 people created the mysites, ask other user to click on the onedrive link which will provision their mysite.
3. This link will allow user a create team site on the URL which u masked(red ink). If u enable it, u will see a create a site on your mysitehost url. Be hidden will hide it from enduser. which is mostly company doing.
4. I dont see any pressure on the farm with 120 mysites, Mysite are very light weight, may be storage will be an issue but not the performance.