What I Hate About Oversellers
Man I wanted to make a list of oversellers. But, you know what? It’s just not worth the effort because all the hosts are overselling. Instead I should make a list of hosts who are NOT overselling. I just hate it. The hosting industry is just getting totally messed up.
Some hosts are proud of the fact that they oversell. They admit it on their company blog (like HostGator) or site. And they give us a bullshit reason on why they oversell. They say something like how can you expect us to give you 15,000GB dedicated space and bandwidth for just under $10/month, servers cost a lot and we know that no one is going to use all the space. Well that really pisses me off!
Well why the fuck do you need to oversell in the first place? I know its because of competition. But, do they really think that all of us are so dumb that we’ll fall for their “unlimited” space and bandwidth plans.
For example, when I order a pizza I expect to get the whole pizza (not just a few slices). I don’t care how much I payed for it. I don’t care if I only paid $15 for a large pizza. The company set the price and they better give me my whole pizza. I don’t want the pizza guy to come with a few slices and tell me that they knew I wouldn’t eat the whole pizza so they took off a few slices.
Like don’t lie to us. We don’t need 15,000GB of space. A dedicated 10GB is good enough. If you can’t really give us 15,000GB of dedicated space then don’t offer that. Hosts should be honest. Offer us what they can afford to. We’ll choose a transparent host over a lying overseller, any day of the week.
I don’t know who came up with the idea of overselling. Hosting isn’t buffet! At least in buffet they have all the food for us. In the hosting world, they don’t even have that.
23 July 2008 at 10:48 pm
wow. That was very well written. Liked the pizza comparison
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23 July 2008 at 10:49 pm
Thank you! That was just one way to put it. =)
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25 July 2008 at 5:56 pm
I use HostGator, Great company. Love having my site hosted there, Had no problems once so ever. Who cares if they are overselling, You and me both know that we arnt going to use that much space. You should be more worried about how they conduct business, Their responsiveness to support, Things of that sort. It’s all about the company, MediaTemple for example, Well respected company. If they gave me a reasonable limit or “oversold”. I’d still go with the oversold plan, Then I could have that same great company with all the space I would have with the “reasonable plan” plus more JUST incase. Overselling aint bad, Just depends on the company overselling.
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25 July 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yeah I’ve heard good things about HostGator. Like I said before, there are 2 kinds of oversellers. One that puts you on a crappy server and the one which has a lot of servers (or maybe a datacenter).
HostGator is the 2nd one. Sometimes overselling really hurts and sometimes it does a bit. Just depends on the company (and the number of servers).
I personally wouldn’t go with a oversold plan because they tell you that you can use xxxxGB of space, but when you use about 20%-60% they close your account for “system abuse”. I like to know how much I can REALLY use.
Overselling is like an old Toyota with the logo of Porsche on it.
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25 July 2008 at 8:17 pm
11000000% agree w/ur post n comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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25 July 2008 at 8:30 pm
Thank you!!!111 XD
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23 February 2010 at 8:37 am
It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.
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