Do you really need that much space and bandwidth?
I often ask people if they really need all that space and bandwidth when they ask about a big overselling hosts. I’m talking about xxxxGB traffic and xxxGB space in the shared environment. People buy these ridiculous plans for usually under $10 / month and then they find themselves booted of. People don’t know the value of webhosting, a dedicated server with that much space and transfer costs $100+ per month, unmanaged. There is no possible way you can use that much on a shared server and not crash it. People just want to be sure they don’t encounter traffic exceeding bills and think “What if I get that much traffic in a month? Just let me be sure nothing bad happens to my paycheck.”
What I want to say is, there is now way you can get quality hostingĂ‚Â with big numbers of Gigs for 10 bucks. We have a word in the hosting biz that says “You get what you pay for”. If you really care about your website / business get a real hosting account, one that doesn’t have “extreme overselling” written all over it.
P.S: overselling is not necessarily a bad thing, there’s nothing wrong with overselling done right.
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February 5th, 2007 06:53
But are we liable for crashing their servers if we do, considering they are at fault leading most people into the miss belife of being able to have all of that bandwidth, or will they still win any legal battle? (Doubt it will rise that big of issue, but in hypothetical way..)
February 8th, 2007 01:25
Unless you are a big corporation such as microsoft or dell, there is NO way in the world we are going to use all those bandwidth and storage.
The only users that uses such amount of resources other than the big guns are filesharing websites. And if they are really serious about their business, they will opt for the dedicated route also.
Furthermore, if you look at all those hosts offering large bandwidth, there will often be a TOS stating the usage of their resource which if you look at it, limits your “unlimited” privileges.
February 28th, 2007 00:46
Well thanks for answering, never considered TOS. Im probly part of the 99% that just agree to anything when registering on the net!