How do you offer Shoutcast hosting for so little?

[Bruce]

Just seeing some of the offers here, it's unbelievable. Are you guys getting some amazing deals on bandwidth or what? I'm well aware of overselling, but this is crazy. :lol:

64 Kbps Streaming
80 Slots
24/7 Kbps Streaming
No Bandwidth Limit for Streaming
Free cPanel Hosting for you Radio Website* hot!
Price: $4.99/month

5120 kbit = 5 mbit bandwidth = ~2.2 TB data-transfer
Again, for $5.

Here's one of the more "expensive" ones:

Listeners: 120
Bitrate: 128k
Price: $17.99

15360 kbit = 15 mbit bandwidth = ~4.6 TB data-transfer
That sounds like a hell of a bargain for $18.

Am I missing something here? If you guys can offer these prices, more power to you. I'm just curious as to how. Maybe I might start that radio station afterall. With these prices I could surely afford the royaly fees.

N.B.: Names have been removed to protect the innocent.

 

[LSComputers]

Well I think most companies are using unmetered networks that are using congent bandwitdh. I know of serveral companies that are doing that.

 

[Craig]

Bruce, its very easy *if you know how*, of course am not going to let it out of the bag but using old simple methods it can be done & still make a good profit.

 

[Mount1]

You could always use a server with unmetered line (example - 10mbps unmetered). That would do fine for a few shoutcasts running at this.

 

[midwesthosting]

I Run Unmetered 100 Mbps

 

[tmgavin]

Well techniacally, most "Stations" dont get more then 20 listerners..