Comments on: Web host overselling tactics explained. How hosting providers offer so much for so little

By: Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitations — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:56:16 +0000

Nice point given about overselling in hosting point of view. Come to think of it, it is true that many hosting companies start to send out the message like “You are using more resources” type of message and sometimes can see the error message of “Bandwidth Limit exceeded”. Now, I know clearly of how these hosting companies overselling their products. Will avoid this type of companies. Thanks for sharing this great info!

By: web hosting art

web hosting art — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:28:09 +0000

Overselling is not the only reason why there are so many bad quality web hosts these days. Outdated php versions, non secured linux kernels, long response times, non helpful personnel are just a few reasons why web hosting industry quality declines over the years. If you ever find a quality web hosting provider, don’t search again for another . The crisis reflects not only to small firms but also to gigantic companies that are established decades ago.

By: bluehost web hosting

bluehost web hosting — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:54:21 +0000

This is the main problem on web hosting marketing. Some provider are very greed that they do not take any responsibility to their customers after selling out their products. I perfer to select those one that have good customer support web hosting although i have to pay more. But it is worthwhile.

By: Treatment Nail Fungus

Treatment Nail Fungus — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:22:42 +0000

I just had another account up with hostgator . com and they seem to be the most favored hosting destination right now. So far so good.

Websitesource.com seems to have oversold what they can provide. Their email servers are very unreliable. My worst nightmares have come from them.

Guys and Gals this rule of “u get what u pay for” fully applies here. Don’t compromise on web hosting.

By: water damage chicago

water damage chicago — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:50:14 +0000

If I ever need to host my own site, I will keep your advice in mind and stay away from hosts that oversell their services by 10-20 times more than what can safely be done. I know it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, but the practice seems a bit shady and unethical to me. When there’re problems, the consumers are the ones who end up getting screwed.

By: outdoor antenna

outdoor antenna — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:46:14 +0000

I often figured that Hosts were overselling their services like other services you mentioned in the industry but I had no idea it was as high as doubling the resources! But I guess if past history has shown consumers dont even come close to using their full capacity of space…why not? it’s a no-brainer.

By: water damage denver

water damage denver — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:18:22 +0000

Hmm, I hadn’t considered that thought before, and although I was aware that person- or usage-based companies oversold or overbooked their services, I didn’t know that web hosting companies also practiced that. Good to know.

By: FeatherHost

FeatherHost — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:09:16 +0000

Just to make sure to some ‘newbies’, that could also include the bigger hosts, such as HostGator.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:27:06 +0000

The hosting companies I have been with all provide nearly unlimited everything, except CPU usage. That’s where they got me. HostGator is cheap, and I hear good comments about them. But those making the comments may have low traffic sites. I have an account at Bluehost, and they were getting many complaints because of such a low CPU usage threshold. A few months back Bluehost doubled the allowed CPU usage, and its been better. But as you noted in your post, these hosts still can hurt you. In Bluehost’s case, they doubled CPU usage but mysql availability has gone way down. Nothing like a dynamic site not loading.

I completely agree with you. You get what you pay for.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:12:18 +0000

It’s about time that some of these companies are shown for what they really are. Too many of them over book their space and bandwidth with several accounts. But then again, there’s nothing that can be done about it.