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[Tramposch]

What you call "overselling" is really just enhancements in technologies. They can provide cheap space because they have massive hard drives for cheap now. The biggest HDD for a consumer to buy is 1.5TB; I think it is like $200. Now imagine what a company can get. Probably multiple TB drives for the same price. And when you have a lot of sites on one server, the break even comes quick. And for bandwidth, faster connections are substantially cheaper. I have a 6 MB/s connection at my house and pay $35/mo. A multiple GB/s connection at server farms is probably only a few hundred a month. It is just more available.

Also, nobody who needs that much bandwidth will get those hosting packages. It is a selling point. If your website is that popular, you have multiple dedicated servers to distribute the load. Shared hosting can't handle that. Same with the massive space. Nobody needs it, but it is nice to know it is there.

[mandla]

Another thing we hav to take into account is that while some of the hosting companies are english websites that doesnt mean they are English based as in based in USa and England. They could be based in CHina and Japan where it is legal to actually exagerate and over sell. Similarly when you buy a phone on a chinese based sales point they will tell you it has 10Gig memory and 3G with a 12 Meg CamerA AND ON RECIEVING it you will find that Its had a cemera that is 2,5 meg only that the chip was made by a comany called Twelve Meg, and the The phone is the 3rd Generation model hence the term 3g.


So be carefully. Another thing is trully most companies are just doing what many companies around the world do. You buy a Bugati Veyron the Speedometer will read max speed 320Km and hour but at its fastest the car will drive at 180km and hour and if you query they will say we didnt think you'd actually go that fast. I mean in England we get Mobile phone deals which say 35 pounds a month get free texts and unlimited calls and internet browsing but whne you read the small print it says fair Usage Policy. How can it be unlimited if you have a fair usage policy. Because maybe the only reason you are getting that contract is because you dont wanna use the phone sparingly. Maybe your girlfriend is moving to a different town and the two of you will be on the phone for hours on end who knows.

Then again usually people dont question the overselling because it looks impressive on paper and is prestigous when telling freineds lol

[mra550]

lol that is ridiculously xD they just want to have some sales maybe they ran out of customers in their company that's why they are overselling their space with a low price and what if a 1000 users or webmasters purchase that? wow they sure have a very large computers and a monster softwares in their company if that so

[Spyda]

I posted this topic two years ago and it's still getting some responses

The whole point of this topic was just to let people know that overselling occurs even with the bigger companies. The funny thing is, if anybody even used nearly that much space on their hosting account they would be suspended instantly. Though, like Tramposch mentioned nobody who needs that much space would be on shared hosting.