dedicated - why extra bw costs more than included bw?
 

Just thought it strange that on a dedicated plan that offers 2000gb bandwidth included for $99 a month, charges an extra $99 a month to add only 1000gb more


can someone explain why they do it that way?

to make money thats why.

Buy mBits not mBytes.

-Ben

because the initial plan makes them no profit and they have to profit somehow.

Probably because they're counting on a typical customer to use less than their allowed gigs.

If your setup allows it and you have the knowledge you can simply buy a second $99 server and get your extra 2000GB that way. :winkwink:

90% of owners using only 10-20%% of included bandwidth, so ...

and by doing so, you'll most likely get another pool of IP addresses ;)

Another reason is bandwidth budgeting. The host has to buy and configure
enough bandwidth to cover what their customers are using. Back in the mid
1990s when I did hosting and more recently as a server admin for a web host,
we would buy bandwidth and set up equipment based on expected usage.
If someone with a 100GB/month account was suddenly doing 250GB/day
it shot all our planning to hell and caused slowness for neighboring servers
hooked up to the sme equipment. In order to best serve you and other
webmasters, the host wants to encoourage you to plan for what you'll use
rather than suddenly using up bandwidth that has been sold to other webmasters.

Plus included bandwidth is prepaid and doesn't roll over :) Usually websites that do not use all their included bandwidth, don't just miss it by 1 MB but by Gigs a month, which is basically being paid for twice by those that exceed their allotted bandwidth.

I like Raymor's answer... Where do I vote?