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Non-Overselling Hosting Companies

Dec 22, 2007 11:25PM PST

Hi,

When I look around I see that most shared hosting providers heavily oversell... Jsut wanted t otell you that is makes sense to search for a good host and to sign-up with them only if they offer reasonable amount of space and bandwidth.

How does overselling offer look like?

Like this - "750 GB space, 7500 GB traffic" for let's say $5-$7/month.

The average server comes with 300 GB hard drives. Even a web hosts maiantains servers with 8 or 10 HDD 300 GB each, they still will not be able to host more than 5 customers.

You can see web hosts that offer 10 GB to 50 GB of disc space and I can get that (even they may still oversell a little) but those who offer hundreds of gigs of web space are cheaters. So the best you can do is to stay away!

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Anhosting
Dec 23, 2007 9:13AM PST

I have an account there, and it says that the server size is 346TB or something in that area. It's rather impossible that this is on one server. I'm also watching all the servers I'm on with a uptime monitor, and on average, the servers go down at least twice a week for 30 minutes. So whatever they are doing, it's not stable.... and we'll see about possible.

~Sovereign

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Look at the Policy
Dec 25, 2007 11:28PM PST

You also have to look at the policies. On some of these services even if they advertise a large amount of storage, it will be difficult for you to hit that amount. A service I am on only allows files directly related to your website. This prohibits people from using their space as an offsite back-up or for sharing files that aren't directly related to their website. They also have restrictions related to file-sharing services.

It will probably be quite a while before I have a website that needs 300GB of space.