i think that who whole concept about selling web hosting in big numbers is wrong and sorry if someone find's this offensive but stupid. You don;t need disc space and bandwidth when you have a web project. At least not in tons of disc space and terabytes of data transfer.
What anyone needs is a service that would allow them to run their website/web business. This means decent uptime, fixed numbers on data transfer and disc space, specific software environment and friendly support that answers promptly to tickets, phone calls, etc.
Any discussion about "unlimited" for $5/mo or 750GB space / 7500 GB transfer is useless and refers to phony offerings.
I like people that can think of a solution to a "problem" instead of just whining about it. :classic2:Seriously, here is what I would like to see: hosting geared towards small- and mid-sized businesses that includes Website builder, SEO tools, good email tools (why is this so hard to do???), e-commerce features, and widgets. This hosting would have no hard disk space or bandwidth limits. But - disk space and bandwidth would not be mentioned in marketing. Here's why this would work: SMBs don't care about these two items, and don't even know how much they need anyway. Any site that might require a ton of either item is not going to pick a host that is geared towards SMBs and priced accordingly (remember, a higher-quality service could get $10 or $20 per month per user, maybe much more). In fact, a host such as the one I describe could be so "dumbed down" that abusers couldn't use it - even if they wanted to.
In essence, this would be the creation of a "Web Presence Provider" - not a Web host.
In hosting world, "cheap" and "big" doesn't co-exist.
Until the time a customer discovers that...it's probably too late. :angel:
Overselling has become a common habit nowadays. I doubt it can actually be stopped as most new webhosts established nowadays start off with overselling. I too have been a victim of oversellers in the past and I think oversellers are just dishonest people trying to make an easy buck while other honest web hosts out there are struggling to compete with these oversellers.
Maybe you are right. But I think that overselling to overselling is differentno one runs without overselling