Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

Yeah but really, I shouldn't have to "figure" anything.

Hosts get billed by their upstream providers at 95th percentile. 95% or more of adult webmasters are being billed by their current hosts at 95th percentile.

With these deals, you can't figure out if you're going to save money unless you have a slide rule and an abacus, and with 8 bazillion hosts out there fighting for our business, who has time for that shit?

I'm not looking for a new host, and prices are so ridiculously low these days that nobody could undercut my current deal enough to make it worth moving....but as a friendly service I was letting OP know that he needs to present his packages and billing options in a more standard way, because I and people I know are confused by his packages, and nobody is going to buy something they don't understand.

Obviously Caro Mark is confused as well, because when Mutt said that 25 cents per GB overage works out to $75 per mbps, he went into a sermon about how he wouldn't convert the billing to mbps, it would remain at per GB.
Then he says he thinks people are scared of surprise overages and explains how we have access to our usage 24/7.
Nobody here said anything about being scared of surprise overages. Mark isn't paying attention.

Hosts, en masse, convinced webmasters years ago to stop paying attention to per GB prices and to start paying attention to mbps billed at the 95th percentile.
Now that per mbps prices are in the toilet, it seems like some of them are trying to switch to some new billing model that we don't understand in order to get more money out of us.

Per mbps has been industry standard for a very long time now, at least on dedicated servers. If they really hope to get any business from these specials, they should be offered in terms that people can understand.