Beware of Cheap Unmetered Overselling Hosts

[TigerHostBD]

It has been found that there are some CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts which are offering Reseller Hosting and Master Reseller Hosting for 5$/month or 20$/year.

My suggestion to all of you that beware of this kind of "CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts".

You may think of hosting some of your friends site as well your site by buying a cheap reseller or master reseller hosting plan. But after some days you will find that your site has been suspended or account terminated because of excess CPU or RAM usages which is false in most cases.

That is the Loophole used by "CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts" to cheat the customers.

Remember nothing is unmetered or Unlimited.

I have also found some host is offering 300GB space for hosting a site again restricting hosting of images and videos. A moderate size forum may need 1G space (highest) and a blog not more than 500MB space. So why you are offering something what you don't have. Even if you investigate some more you will find that the host actually has 250GB hard disk. LOL..... But it is true.

[TigerHostBD]

Please Read the following Articles. I hope it will help you.

1) The Real Meaning of "Unlimited" in Web Hosting

http://www.thesitewizard.com/webhosting/unlimited-space-bandwidth.shtml

2) Unlimited web hosting! (NOT)

http://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/blog/tips/unlimited-web-hosting-not

3) Unlimited Bandwidth? Probably not.

http://www.100best-web-hosting.com/articles54.html

4) Is “Unlimited” Hosting a Myth?

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/showNews.aspx?ID=27241

[shakir]

Yh m with you there is no unmeterd or unlimited and behind the offer is a business trick there will be some hidden limit. But we can not say they r bad and also they will not stop it within few months something like 10k hits per day and more downloads. They knows that if the site have more traffic nobody will go for shared hosting, will go for dedicated ... Also reaching the hidden limit is too difficult and almost 95% shared host site is not using even the 10% of it

[microvps]

Unlimited that is not true. And you subscribed for unlimited hosting and wanted your web hosting provider be honest with you and provide you what do not exist at all?

[~ServerPoint~]

On unmetered web hosts you have something metered and something unmetered. That is truth. If you are unmetered with bandwidth you are limited with CPU and mem sources.

[sequincer]

Unmetered hosting is a myth,there is nothing like unmetered hosting(Storage& Bandwidht)
Unlimited hosting is simply not possible as there is no server which has unlimited resourcees.
Try going for reliability over claims made my companies.

[specialk]

This is not something new. If it is too good to be true, it is. You need to be realistic. If your site is busy, spend more for a better service instead of being a cheapskate and opting for a $5 account. "you get what you pay for" $5 is damn good for what you get. You spend like 30 or MORE dollars on your cell phone, but when something goes wrong..forget it. 30 dollar hosting..you are gonna get 30 dollars worth of help. etc.

You get what I mean.

[Hahh]

However, using hosting with unmetered is very useful if you have a huge traffic. Even if you are limited by CPU and RAM - this enables you to avoid bandwidth overusage.

For example, there are hosts (a2hosting.com, santrex, etc) which do not actually oversell being unmetered. Their planes are built so that it is just physically impossible to overcome certain metrics, which is simply logical and doesn't need to be told when you get a hosting.

One more example: when it is offered to host unlimited domains on one shared (reseller) account, thet doesn't mean you can add sites on your webspace endlessly and without losses. We must have simple logic to know whether it is overselling.

[TigerHostBD]

Originally Posted by Hahh

However, using hosting with unmetered is very useful if you have a huge traffic. Even if you are limited by CPU and RAM - this enables you to avoid bandwidth overusage.

For example, there are hosts (a2hosting.com, santrex, etc) which do not actually oversell being unmetered. Their planes are built so that it is just physically impossible to overcome certain metrics, which is simply logical and doesn't need to be told when you get a hosting.

One more example: when it is offered to host unlimited domains on one shared (reseller) account, thet doesn't mean you can add sites on your webspace endlessly and without losses. We must have simple logic to know whether it is overselling.

@ Hahh --> Don't try to advertise any host in your reply.

There is no use of unmetered hosting if you have a huge traffic site. I would like to clarify that when your site will get more visits it will use more CPU and RAM and bandwidth will be consumed.

You are giving Unlimited space again you are putting in your TOS that hosting can't be used for hosting images, files, files can't be bigger than 5 MB etc. Than what is the use of unlimited space. Again only a little amount of bandwidth will be used by the site. And sites are suspended for having a slight increase in the CPU and terminated without any backup.

Unmetered or unlimited hosting is a way of cheap promotion and a way of cheating new webmasters. So New Webmasters Beware. Don't believe the false testimonials. You are not going to get the "unlimited or unmetered" what you are thinking.

Have a look in the following article:

Why you SHOULD NOT OVERSELL

http://www.freewebhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=10599

[danweb]

Originally Posted by TigerHostBD

It has been found that there are some CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts which are offering Reseller Hosting and Master Reseller Hosting for 5$/month or 20$/year.

My suggestion to all of you that beware of this kind of "CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts".

You may think of hosting some of your friends site as well your site by buying a cheap reseller or master reseller hosting plan. But after some days you will find that your site has been suspended or account terminated because of excess CPU or RAM usages which is false in most cases.

That is the Loophole used by "CHEAP Unmetered Overselling Hosts" to cheat the customers.

Remember nothing is unmetered or Unlimited.

I have also found some host is offering 300GB space for hosting a site again restricting hosting of images and videos. A moderate size forum may need 1G space (highest) and a blog not more than 500MB space. So why you are offering something what you don't have. Even if you investigate some more you will find that the host actually has 250GB hard disk. LOL..... But it is true.

Wow, thats ridiculous. 250 gigs? Im sure its true when they dont allow you to use videos. How do you expect to use up a 300 gig plan. I guess you get what you pay for.

[martyan]

I think guys you're talking about the same things, just looking from different angles on it. Overselling is trying to sell more than you actually have. So unmetered means that your bandwidth is not metered with a certain amount of bytes that you can use. Unlimited is something unreachable that no one has, thus they cannot sell it, therefore they are oversellers, While companies with unmetered plans are logically not not.

[TigerHostBD]

Originally Posted by martyan

I think guys you're talking about the same things, just looking from different angles on it. Overselling is trying to sell more than you actually have. So unmetered means that your bandwidth is not metered with a certain amount of bytes that you can use. Unlimited is something unreachable that no one has, thus they cannot sell it, therefore they are oversellers, While companies with unmetered plans are logically not not.

I will still say "Unmetered" hosting sellers are CHEAP OVERSELLERS. There is no difference between "Unmetered" or "Unlimited". Most of the new sites don't use much space and bandwidth and when their sites started getting some traffic they are suspended as they are using too much CPU. If you are really offering "Unmetered" hosting you should also don't care about the "CPU usage". Will you do it?