Need Web Hosting with thousands of gigs of bandwidth Options

[nWo Sting]

I need a web hosting company that offers a lot of bandwidth, at least 1000 GB to start, but hopefully they have higher plans if my bandwidth increases. Anyone know of a company that has a fair pricing plan for a lot of bandwidth? thanks

[JamieHarrop]

That situation will never arise. The term overselling doesn't really apply to a company like 1&1. They are HUGE. The average host has a few racks of dedicated servers at best. For a small company heavy overselling can be very risky. For 1&1 it's hardly any risk they won't be able to meet the demands.

I admire your confidence, Pandy. 1&1 are huge (The largest European provider, last I heard), but I still don't see how they can handle a 1,200gb data transfer and 120gb of disk space on a *shared* server. I have to believe they would request that the client upgrade to a dedicated server if they are using so many resources (And up goes your bill, from $4 to ~$300-$400).

Like I say, it's all speculation, and we'll never know unless somebody walks on down to WebHostingTalk and writes a good ol' rant, but I'd certainly put my bet on an upgrade to a dedicated server or a boot off the 1&1 network.

Nevertheless, I too have heard horror stories about their support. There are a bunch of threads at webhostingtalk. Last I heard the word was that if you can do on your own they are fine. If you need help from time to time, look somewhere else. Now, this is all hearsay, of course, and should be taken as such.

Yup, that seems to be the be all and end all of their service. FWIW, I've used their service once previously (A Web design client was hosted with them, and no amount of British sweet talk would make them change their hosting service to our own). My only complaint was about their control panel. It positively stunk, IMO. It was enough to make me cringe every time I saw it.