Recently, i have a lunch with a friend who is a web hosting provider. He told me that the web hosting busiess is extremely comeptitive nowadays. It is because there are many web hosting providers offer high hosting space with low price. He showed me an advertisement from a local provider : 3GB space, 15 GB bandwidth with only RM 180 (USD 50) per year.

I asked him, "can this provider survive or earn profit with such low price ? "

He told me, " Well, I don't know, but for myself, if I offer more than 500 MB for RM 180 (USD 50) per year, i actually making lost -- if the client fully utilize the 500 MB"

It means many web hosting providers are playing a dangerous game - Offer huge space, low price , but at the same time "expect" the client will not utilize full space.

It this circumstance, can you expect good servces from the hosting provider that offer with such low price ? Meanwhile, it is also easy for the competitors to pretent as a client to sabotage the hosting provider, by sign up the 3GB space, fully utilize the bandwidth and space with only RM 180.00 (USD 50) , What a low cost to saborage a competitor !

So, Web hosting providers, you want to fight for price and space, or fight for service and quality ?


This article is written by myself , source from http://malaysiawebdesign.blogspot.com/

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James
Singapore car dealers
Malaysia bedroom set manufacturer

Indeed thats true alot off hosting companies are overselling to bad.
But its true most customers will not use the whole package. And the 3gb and 15gb is not so cheap, sometimes you get offers like 25gb and 510gb traffic a month for 7.5$/month.
And I have seen some bigger accounts for less or the same money.

Also there are alot off companies who offer unlimited traffic 100mbit traffic for 200$ or less/month this is impossible, but if most off them only use 5mbit off traffic thats possible for that price

Yes, Every hosting provider must have to provide best services for their customer.

Originally Posted by jamestcs

Recently, i have a lunch with a friend who is a web hosting provider. He told me that the web hosting busiess is extremely comeptitive nowadays. It is because there are many web hosting providers offer high hosting space with low price. He showed me an advertisement from a local provider : 3GB space, 15 GB bandwidth with only RM 180 (USD 50) per year.

I asked him, "can this provider survive or earn profit with such low price ? "

He told me, " Well, I don't know, but for myself, if I offer more than 500 MB for RM 180 (USD 50) per year, i actually making lost -- if the client fully utilize the 500 MB"

It means many web hosting providers are playing a dangerous game - Offer huge space, low price , but at the same time "expect" the client will not utilize full space.

It this circumstance, can you expect good servces from the hosting provider that offer with such low price ? Meanwhile, it is also easy for the competitors to pretent as a client to sabotage the hosting provider, by sign up the 3GB space, fully utilize the bandwidth and space with only RM 180.00 (USD 50) , What a low cost to saborage a competitor !

So, Web hosting providers, you want to fight for price and space, or fight for service and quality ?


This article is written by myself , source from http://malaysiawebdesign.blogspot.com/

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James
Singapore car dealers
Malaysia bedroom set manufacturer

Originally Posted by jamestcs

Recently, i have a lunch with a friend who is a web hosting provider.

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He told me, " Well, I don't know, but for myself, if I offer more than 500 MB for RM 180 (USD 50) per year, i actually making lost -- if the client fully utilize the 500 MB"

It means many web hosting providers are playing a dangerous game - Offer huge space, low price , but at the same time "expect" the client will not utilize full space.


This article is written by myself , source from http://malaysiawebdesign.blogspot.com/

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James
Singapore car dealers
Malaysia bedroom set manufacturer

Your friend tells the truth. He sounds like an honest man.

Most companies offer these big plans. Most customers never use what they buy. They base in on a figure that 10% of the customers will actually use what they sell. Most will never even get close. If they have 100 accounts and the average of all of them is within the guidelines, then all is good.

The average site uses about 50MB of space and consumes maybe 5G of bandwidth.

Bandwidth is CHEAP. Here is the US a well connected data center can breakeven or even make a little at 50 cents per gig. Disk space is a very limited commodity. The hard drives only have so much capacity.

All the oversellers have many statements in their terms of service that will allow them to cancel your account if you use more than they are willing to give. If their total usage is high they look for the biggest user to terminate.

I have never been able to get an answer to the question, "how much of this am I really allowed to use"?


How's the weather over there? Spring is close here.


Colbyt

Most reliable hosts will not go so low as to terminate the biggest user. Rather, they expand to accomodate that. Nevertheless, there are still some webhosts who do such unethical things. So make sure you do your research well.

Wow, i received quite number of feedbacks and PMs about my post. Some agreed and some disagreed with what my friend's said in the post.

well, it is true that on average, most website doesn't take more than 50MB space, but offer 3 GB and expect them not utilize fully is actually a myth !

why i said that ? because it forgot to take into account one important element - the EMAIL !

most web hosting providers offer the GB space combined email space and web space. If the website taken huge space, for example , 2GB (probably some big files to be downloaded) and the bandwidth limit is 15 GB/month, then the provider can expect charge the users in case of exceed the bandwidth quota.

But don't forget EMAIL will consume space ! if the user setup about 10 email accounts for his staffs, if all the users use webmail, or using outlook express with the option " leave a copy in the server" , and some of them like to keep files, attachment in the webmail, then you do a simple math :

10 users x 30 MB of emails per month (include attachment) store in server = 300 MB/month

300 MB x 12 month = 3600 MB per year !

You see, it is obviously very easy for a user to reach 3 GB space with NOT EXCEEEDING The bandwidth quota per month.


I have many friends who like to keep jpeg files, movies clips in the GMAIL or Yahoo mail, and now their email space already reach 700 MB ( for less than 1 year) ! just imagine if they use the normal POP email what will happen ........

Thanks

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James
Malaysia bedroom set manufacturer
Singapore used cars dealers