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]

John Pozadzides recommended 1and1 the other day, and it does look quite great. Their home plan offers 1,200 Gigs of bandwidth for 5$ a month.

Holy crapola! $3.74 a month for 120gb space and 1,200gb data transfer is their current price!!! I'd feel safer if I was lodging with a psychopathic pedophile. Sorry, but that kind of budget hosting is as good as throwing your life away. Talk about overselling! I can almost guarantee you that if you ever use that full 1,200gb of bandwidth, 1&1 will throw you off the server and in the gutter so fast you won't know what hit you. The space/data transfer figures we're talking here would fill the average dedicated server if they were used completely. You would expect to pay anywhere from $100 a month to $500 a month for a dedicated server of this nature. This is *not* the type of specs a host should be promoting as "shared Web hosting" and giving away for $3.74! Seriously, I've seen overselling at its best before, but this time I'm in utter shock. I had a double take and compared our own hosting packages with 1&1 just to make sure I was really seeing 1,200GB and not MB.

I know 1&1 are a big company, but that is no damn excuse for offering packages like that. If this wasn't Web hosting and it was a more "sane" industry that was monitored by a governing body, you can bet your Web sites ass that 1&1 wouldn't be able to get away with offering packages like that.

nWo Sting, all I can say is that if you do intend to use all that bandwidth (or space), be prepared for 1&1 to throw you off their server and off their client list. The fact is, if you use it all, there won't be much left for all the other clients on that server. Offering such huge figures like this is total marketing mouth-wash. They will never let you use it all. Over at WebHostingTalk (Which Pandy linked to) we see people being throw off servers by budget Web hosts like 1&1 all the time. People think these companies who offer a whole boat load of resources are giving away a fantastic service, but once somebody actually uses the resources to their full potential, they get rear ended by the Web host and are left with nothing.

If you haven't bought the 1&1 hosting yet, lunarpages.com offers the 3000 gigs of transfer, unlimited storage, and lots of other goodies such as free SSL certificate for only $21.95

Well, need I say anything other than "Is unlimited storage available already? In 2007!? You're kidding, right?". No, unlimited storage doesn't exist. Again, total marketing mouth-wash.

If you want quality Web hosting with "thousands of gigs of bandwidth", you need to start looking at dedicated server options, and not shared Web hosting.