Is this service for real?

[zabrou44]

I know this isn't hardware related, but I don't know where else to put it, sorry. Anyway, I was looking into hosts, and found this. They offer a gigabyte (yeah 1000MB), with no real transfer restrictions for only $9.95/month! I keep thinking this is freakin insane. Anyone know if this is some kind of fraud, or a hell of a deal.

 

[Ryan]

Dayum! Talk about a deal (if it's real)

 

[Adul]

could be real, but if you abuse it, I am sure they will restrict it.

 

[Ryan]

From the FAQs:

<DD>Featureprice's customers are privileged to be offered an unmonitored account in terms of bandwidth. This means Featureprice does not pro-actively monitor bandwidth usage of our customers. Customers are entitiled to use as much bandwidth as necessary as long as they (a) do not harm other customers located on the same machine or on other machines of Featureprice's network and (b) do comply with all other terms & conditions.

All domain / subdomains account do have a moderation throttelling utility applied to their throughput. This moderation throttelling utility measures the accounts usage based on averages derived from various server tasks and services such as average CPU utilization, FTP utilization, HTTP bandwidth utilization, Email utilization - et cetera. On basis of the meaningful average value the moderation throttelling software decides if a delay of an offending account is determinded to be necessary in order to assure 100% service uptime, reliability and performance for other websites of moderate usage on same machine. HTTP moderation is set to 171 million bits per hour (in numbers: 171,000,000 bits / hour), other limitations are determined depending on average usage of the server by all clients on same machine and hence depend. The hourly bandwidth throttling setting equals to a maximum of 15gb / month in data transfer that a hosted account can reach.
</DD>

 

[mastertech01]

Id be concerned about paying 120.00 up front... If its a scam they could gather a large chunk of change and run in a month.

 

[owensdj]

It's possible that they give you exactly what they say in terms of web space and data transfer. The catch might be that they are overselling their hosting capacity which will result in slow web sites during peak usage times. I'm not saying that they do that, but it's possible.

 

[LordAccord]

if they dont have a list of companies that use their services then I wouldnt use them

LoRdAccord

 

[human2k]

" We solely use IBM as your hard drive (HDD) supplier. Depending on the server's architecture, we either use 75GXP drives with 7,200 rpm and 2 megabytes of cache or for maximum reliability and performance "


hah.......they must go through alot of hard drives.

 

[mastertech01]

I hope they do a LOT of backups if thats true.. sheesh. Would hate to lose my whole website because of a bunch of bargain drives.

 

[human2k]

with deathstars they better backup!

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: human2k
" We solely use IBM as your hard drive (HDD) supplier. Depending on the server's architecture, we either use 75GXP drives with 7,200 rpm and 2 megabytes of cache or for maximum reliability and performance "


hah.......they must go through alot of hard drives.

That's what I noticed when reading their page... Very stupid of them to use that!