Comments on: Overselling: Web Hosts’ Little “Secret”

By: NoDaddy.com - Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names | Webmaster-Source

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:43:44 +0000

[...] alone is bad. We all know that shared hosting is oversold, but GoDaddy seems to be on the extreme end of overselling (though Dreamhost is real bad about it [...]

By: MVH Media » Blog Archive » Recommended Web Hosts

MVH Media » Blog Archive » Recommended Web Hosts — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:21:26 +0000

[...] compared to others, they claim that you’ll get every megabyte, unlike with other hosts that oversell, promising terabytes of storage and not delivering. Their servers are very fast, as a visit to [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

"While it may seem you are getting a better deal with some hosts that advertize a gazillion gb of space and bw for $10/mo, I dare you to use that space and see what happens."

Well said.

And by the way, Blue Gravity looks good. The plans, at a glance, have the look of an honest host. I may have to look closer sometime.

By: Blue Gravity

Blue Gravity — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:09:31 +0000

We at BlueGravity.com have never oversold bandwidth or hard drive space. While it may seem you are getting a better deal with some hosts that advertize a gazillion gb of space and bw for $10/mo, I dare you to use that space and see what happens.
We never over sell. Never have, never will. This keeps our servers running smoothly all the time with almost no downtime. Most of our virtual hosting servers have been up for years without any (unscheduled) downtime, and when down for scheduled things like upgrades repairs etc, its no more then 5 minutes.
If you are looking for one of the few honest hosts left check out http://www.bluegravity.com, or give us a call at 1-877-8-HOSTING. You can even ask for me, Tim, and I’d be glad to talk to you.
Timothy J. Biggs
Blue Gravity Communications Inc.

By: Choosing a Webhost » Webmaster-Source

Choosing a Webhost » Webmaster-Source — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:43:09 +0000

[...] whether they do or not, so ignore this statistic. You want, if possible, a host that doesn’t oversell, though for a starting website you may not need to worry about this until the site grows. Pay [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:09:34 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Imar

Imar — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:31:03 +0000

Hey Matt, cool article! I added a link at the bottom of my post.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:20:38 +0000

I’ve been having a discussion about this here. When I found out about the overselling, it made sense, but I was a little surprised. It’s no big secret, though. Just Google “overselling” and you’ll get a lot of results.

Here are a few good links from Google:
http://hostingfu.com/article/a.....-out-there
http://www.theserverpages.com/.....ling?.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling
http://www.discountdomainsuk.c...../6/293/0/1

Also, the Web Hosting Talk forum is a great place to research hosts. I use them a bit. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

By: Marco Ruelicke.net

Marco Ruelicke.net — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:31:07 +0000

Interesting. First time I heard about this. Fortunately my hosting company isn’t overselling, I just checked the contract to make sure because I’m using a shared hosting deal and got a bit worried.

Thanks for pointing that one out, I’ll stay alert on this when I change my hosting plan/company, which won’t happen any time soon anyway…