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  • KrisKross
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2006
    • 5025
    #1

    Hosting and Overselling. OR Why you shouldn't cheap out on hosting

    For those looking for hosting and for those enticed by the cheap plans offered by companies like Dreamhost, I recommend you take 5-10 minutes and read these two articles.

    If you were running a brick and mortar business, your website would be like your storefront. You wouldn't try to save a few bucks by building your storefront with scrap metal in a seedy part of town, because you'd end up losing customers. Why would you do something similar with your website?

    http://whreviews.com/overselling-hosting.htm
    http://whreviews.com/shared-hosting-res.htm
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    • squishypimp
      PostMaster General
      • Aug 2006
      • 10781
      #2
      thanks for the articles, reading them now

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        • KrisKross
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2006
          • 5025
          #3
          Originally posted by squishypimp
          thanks for the articles, reading them now
          An article about hosting is pretty useless to someone who doesn't need hosting.

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            • directfiesta
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Oct 2002
              • 30155
              #4
              Originally posted by KrisKross
              An article about hosting is pretty useless to someone who doesn't need hosting.


              let's find an article on surfing .....
              I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !

              But I can't figure out how he can breathe or type , at the same time ....

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                • marcjacob
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 1063
                  #5
                  Theres a guy selling 20 gig of space and 1 TERRABYTE of bw. Can you imagine what would happen to his servers if his clients actually used its allowance?
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                    • BT
                      Confirmed User
                      • Apr 2002
                      • 6481
                      #6
                      Nice read thanks for the knowledge but cheap is only good when it comes to hookers!!!

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                        • KrisKross
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jan 2006
                          • 5025
                          #7
                          Originally posted by kermey
                          Theres a guy selling 20 gig of space and 1 TERRABYTE of bw. Can you imagine what would happen to his servers if his clients actually used its allowance?
                          He'd can them all for abusing server resources. It's a common practice at hosts like Dreamhost.

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                            • KrisKross
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jan 2006
                              • 5025
                              #8
                              Originally posted by BT
                              Nice read thanks for the knowledge but cheap is only good when it comes to hookers!!!
                              And booze!

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                                • kacy
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Oct 2002
                                  • 877
                                  #9
                                  Thank you for helping educate webmasters, as a host I appreciate that
                                  ~Kacy

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                                    • chaze
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Aug 2002
                                      • 9774
                                      #10
                                      It's hard not to over sale since it's so common and people fall for it. But we never have and never will, in fact like allot of hosts on GFY we offer the lowest price without needing to lower our quality of service.
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                                        • Barefootsies
                                          Choice is an Illusion
                                          • Feb 2005
                                          • 42635
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by directfiesta


                                          let's find an article on surfing .....

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                                            • DirtyJs
                                              So Fucking Banned
                                              • Sep 2006
                                              • 307
                                              #12
                                              I love when people are like.. for $100 a month you get a 100mbit unmetered pipe.. and so do 1000 other people.. on that same pipe! so each of you get 1/2 a mbit... if your lucky

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                                                • Cash
                                                  Click on my TCG signature
                                                  • Feb 2002
                                                  • 20825
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by kermey
                                                  Theres a guy selling 20 gig of space and 1 TERRABYTE of bw. Can you imagine what would happen to his servers if his clients actually used its allowance?
                                                  Can you imagine their biz model may be based on many people not actually using all that bandwidth and disk storage, from their past experience?

                                                  Can you imagine what would happen to its biz if an "All you can eat" restaurant's customers actually eat all its food?
                                                  Yet, this doesn't happen, otherwise there will be no such restaurant anylonger ... However, you are attracted by such a place since you know you have no limit, yet you don't use a lot ...
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                                                    • WireNine
                                                      Registered User
                                                      • Sep 2006
                                                      • 32
                                                      #14
                                                      I would also recommend reading the article on ultracheaphosts.com
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                                                        • fris
                                                          I have to go potty
                                                          • Aug 2002
                                                          • 55749
                                                          #15
                                                          hivelocity.net and fdcservers.net are two hosts that oversell massively
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                                                            • notabook
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Apr 2006
                                                              • 9748
                                                              #16
                                                              Overselling is encouraged, and it's only practical especially on shared web. Most are not going to be using near about the maximum of what they pay for, which translates into the host allowing more people on per server and thusly they are able to handle more per server, ultimately driving down prices. Overselling by 10-20% is fairly common for nearly *all* shared web hosts, and you?ll never even notice. What starts to suck is when the hosts get ultra-greedy (and competitive) and starts overselling by 35-40% or more? everybody starts to suffer at that point.

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                                                                • Spudstr
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Jan 2003
                                                                  • 2321
                                                                  #17
                                                                  overselling should only be on shared hosting, and it should be a server to server case senario. We gauage our shared servers on a average load over the time of weeks and watch the graphs to see progression. Theres a happy medium between profit and server stability. Some hosts just like the side of profit more than stability and angry customers. You can have good profit and happy customers at the same time its really not hard to do.

                                                                  I'm shocked that a few hosts have not posted in this thread
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