smoking hot deal on unlimited web hosting

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Crusty

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How can a company offer

# Unlimited GB's of Space
# Unlimited GB's of Transfer
# Unlimited Domain Hosting
# Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
# Unlimited MySQL Databases

for $3.95/month and make money?

Obviously nothing about this service is going to be unlimited, in fact in their Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server's CPU. This means that if your website is found to be utilizing more than 10% of the CPU and memory of the service, we reserve the right to take your site offline.

You will be disabled far before you will ever get close to using any decent amount of resources on their servers, so nothing is really unlimited. Remember you get what you pay for, don't expect much beyond being able to host a simple blog and forget about getting on /. or digg :p


 

angrysand

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Originally posted by: Crusty
How can a company offer

# Unlimited GB's of Space
# Unlimited GB's of Transfer
# Unlimited Domain Hosting
# Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
# Unlimited MySQL Databases

for $3.95/month and make money?

Obviously nothing about this service is going to be unlimited, in fact in their Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server's CPU. This means that if your website is found to be utilizing more than 10% of the CPU and memory of the service, we reserve the right to take your site offline.

You will be disabled far before you will ever get close to using any decent amount of resources on their servers, so nothing is really unlimited. Remember you get what you pay for, don't expect much beyond being able to host a simple blog and forget about getting on /. or digg :p

than they shouldn't be legally advertising "unlimited" ???
 

Crusty

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Originally posted by: angrysand
Originally posted by: Crusty
How can a company offer

# Unlimited GB's of Space
# Unlimited GB's of Transfer
# Unlimited Domain Hosting
# Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
# Unlimited MySQL Databases

for $3.95/month and make money?

Obviously nothing about this service is going to be unlimited, in fact in their Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server's CPU. This means that if your website is found to be utilizing more than 10% of the CPU and memory of the service, we reserve the right to take your site offline.

You will be disabled far before you will ever get close to using any decent amount of resources on their servers, so nothing is really unlimited. Remember you get what you pay for, don't expect much beyond being able to host a simple blog and forget about getting on /. or digg :p

than they shouldn't be legally advertising "unlimited" ???

They can advertise whatever they want, their Terms and Conditions spells out exactly what their definition of 'Unlimited' is. It's no more then 10% of the servers resources or > 25% for 90s. It's just the name of the game for overselling hosting operations, you just always have to remember... you get what you pay for.

 

swanysto

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Thanks for doing the down and dirty work, I was thinking about doing this. It doesn't take a whole lot to get 10 percent of the CPU going.
 

Crusty

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Originally posted by: swanysto
Thanks for doing the down and dirty work, I was thinking about doing this. It doesn't take a whole lot to get 10 percent of the CPU going.

There are even more limits too, like only 50k inodes available. That's 50k files at most, hardly unlimited.
 

techs

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Sep 26, 2000
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Originally posted by: angrysand
Originally posted by: Crusty
How can a company offer

# Unlimited GB's of Space
# Unlimited GB's of Transfer
# Unlimited Domain Hosting
# Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
# Unlimited MySQL Databases

for $3.95/month and make money?

Obviously nothing about this service is going to be unlimited, in fact in their Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server's CPU. This means that if your website is found to be utilizing more than 10% of the CPU and memory of the service, we reserve the right to take your site offline.

You will be disabled far before you will ever get close to using any decent amount of resources on their servers, so nothing is really unlimited. Remember you get what you pay for, don't expect much beyond being able to host a simple blog and forget about getting on /. or digg :p

than they shouldn't be legally advertising "unlimited" ???
Hehe. I guess they decided if the cable internet companies could get away with it....

 

NogginBoink

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Originally posted by: swanysto
Thanks for doing the down and dirty work, I was thinking about doing this. It doesn't take a whole lot to get 10 percent of the CPU going.

Just how much server-side processing (and how many hits per second) are you planning on doing with your website? Assuming the host has a reasonably modern CPU, it sure as heck would be difficult to consume 10% of the CPU's resources.
 
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