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, 01:20 PM
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Advanced Member Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 129 Joined: 25-October 06 From: West Yorkshire, UK Member No.: 570 |
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. 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? 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? ). 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. |
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