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Mr_love_monkey · 10-01-2005, 07:06

*cough* overselling *cough*

The reason they can charge so little for so much diskspace and bandwidth is that they work in the assumption that the people using the accounts will never use up their full quota of space and bandwidth - if everyone decided to use it all at once, their company would fold straight away - it would just not be viable to provide that level for that price - a lot of hosting companies do this overselling lark (I-web being one of the ones that don't ) and often they are the ones that suddenly fold up and vanish, leaving a lot of unhappy people behind. It gives the other companies a bad name, and most of them have a real dislike for companies that do it.

10-01-2005, 07:06	#13
Mr_love_monkey Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London way Age: 50 Services: Sarcasm Posts: 8,376	Re: One Year's Hosting for $9 cough overselling cough The reason they can charge so little for so much diskspace and bandwidth is that they work in the assumption that the people using the accounts will never use up their full quota of space and bandwidth - if everyone decided to use it all at once, their company would fold straight away - it would just not be viable to provide that level for that price - a lot of hosting companies do this overselling lark (I-web being one of the ones that don't ) and often they are the ones that suddenly fold up and vanish, leaving a lot of unhappy people behind. It gives the other companies a bad name, and most of them have a real dislike for companies that do it.