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nWo Sting
post Feb 22 2007, 12:11 PM
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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
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post May 25 2007, 01:20 PM
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QUOTE(Effovex @ May 25 2007, 06:08 PM) *

It probably isn't sustainable if everyone uses the whole thing. But 95% of their customer won't use it. But that doesn't mean the 5% who do will be booted.

There are just so many sites that have a small audience and minuscule hard drive requirements. These people could pay 4$ a month for a site that offers them a reasonable amount of bandwidth for their needs, but then they'll see 1and1 and go "OMG! Why pay 4$ for 10GB of transfers and 1GB of hard drive space when I could pay 4$ for 1,200GB and 120 GB of hard drive!"... and then 1and1 will have the sale. It's like Gmail offering 1GB of space... just about no one will ever use that much, but it's a powerful marketing tool... and for the couple people who actually need that much, well, it was a small price to pay to get the other billion users.


Absolutely! That's exactly my point. smile.gif 1&1, and every other Web host who oversells their service, rely on their customers using 5% (Or however many percent) of their supposedly allocated resources. The fact is, 1&1 and most other Web hosts who oversell, cannot guarantee their customers 1,200gb of bandwidth and 120gb of space. It simply isn't possible to guarantee every single customer that amount of resources. So, my point is, why should 1&1 (and the other hosts who do this) be allowed to get away with it? Isn't it false advertising, hence, marketing mouth-wash? smile.gif

Having said that, airlines do the exact same thing. They bank on passengers not turning up (Who are these passengers who don't turn up for their flight? unsure.gif ). Airlines generally book more passengers on to a flight than they have room for on the plane.

I dunno. It all just seems very unfair to me. I mean, wouldn't you be really annoyed if everybody turned up for their flight and you were declined a place that you rightfully booked? It's the same with Web hosting. When everybody, apart from you, uses their resources, you suddenly find you're getting errors in your FTP client telling you there is no space left on the server despite your package saying you have 20gb of space left, or worse still (like in most cases) you're one of the customers who uses all your allocated resources, and you're declined the service altogether in the form of being booted off (It happens on a regular basis).

Crazy world. blink.gif
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nWo Sting   Need Web Hosting with thousands of gigs of bandwidth   Feb 22 2007, 12:11 PM
Effovex   John Pozadzides recommended 1and1 the other day, a...   Feb 22 2007, 12:43 PM
nWo Sting   John Pozadzides recommended 1and1 the other day, ...   Feb 22 2007, 10:42 PM
CodeKing   If you haven't bought the 1&1 hosting yet,...   Feb 23 2007, 11:09 PM
nWo Sting   If you haven't bought the 1&1 hosting yet...   Feb 25 2007, 07:43 PM
fanlly   you can go to the hostguide website,a lot of hoati...   May 25 2007, 02:26 AM
pandy   http://webhostingtalk.com   May 25 2007, 04:36 AM
JamieHarrop   John Pozadzides recommended 1and1 the other day, ...   May 25 2007, 09:40 AM
Effovex   I'd be tempted to agree except for the fact Jo...   May 25 2007, 11:55 AM
JamieHarrop   Oh, I have no question that 1&1 are a half dec...   May 25 2007, 11:57 AM
JamieHarrop   Reading my post back, it may have come across like...   May 25 2007, 12:01 PM
Effovex   ...but you're working on the assumption that t...   May 25 2007, 12:34 PM
JamieHarrop   Oh, absolutely, Effovex. My post was assumption, b...   May 25 2007, 12:46 PM
Effovex   It probably isn't sustainable if everyone uses...   May 25 2007, 01:08 PM
JamieHarrop   It probably isn't sustainable if everyone use...   May 25 2007, 01:20 PM
pandy   That situation will never arise. The term oversell...   May 25 2007, 01:46 PM
JamieHarrop   I admire your confidence, Pandy. 1&1 are hug...   May 25 2007, 02:04 PM
pandy   I admire your confidence, Pandy. 1&1 are huge...   May 25 2007, 04:38 PM
JamieHarrop   Oh boy, you just opened up a whole new can of wo...   May 25 2007, 04:49 PM
John Pozadzides   Gang, I'd like to chime in with a few comment...   May 26 2007, 04:16 AM


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