Need Web Hosting with thousands of gigs of bandwidth |
Need Web Hosting with thousands of gigs of bandwidth |
nWo Sting |
Feb 22 2007, 12:11 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 5-November 06 Member No.: 709 |
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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JamieHarrop |
May 25 2007, 02:04 PM
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Advanced Member Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 129 Joined: 25-October 06 From: West Yorkshire, UK Member No.: 570 |
QUOTE 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. QUOTE 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. |
pandy |
May 25 2007, 04:38 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
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). They'd just move that client or the other accounts on that server to another server. It wouldn't hurt their wallet as it would for a small host. Not many will go over the transfer limit before they go over the number of file limit or use an unfair amount of processor cycles or whatever other limits there are. The argument against excess overselling is that the server will eventually suffer and the host will go down in the end. Neither will happen to 1&1. Besides, everyone oversells. Nothing wrong with that as long as it's kept at a reasonable level and the host can get the extra hardware when and if it's needed. The hosts that don't oversell at all either have just a few customers or they can't do their math. |
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