Most hosting providers today use a practice called overselling. This simply means that they will promise you ridiculous amounts of bandwidth and server space (ex. - 10 GB server space and 500 GB data transfer for under $8 a month) in an effort to get your business. The simple fact is that this is an unhealthy marketing ploy and is designed to upsell you later, since any website that really needs this kind of monthly data transfer needs either a dedicated solution or at the minimum a VPS; in addition it almost always leads to very poor server performance, even if just 2 or 3 of the hosted sites use this kind of data transfer, the server's resources will be over taxed and prone to crash often.

How Much Server Space is Enough

Some providers promise you 20,000 MB (over 100,000 Web pages) of server space for the same monthly price. WOW!! That's just 25 sites on a server with a large 500 GB hard drive. Let's see - at $7.95 a month that's just $199 a month income for the hosting provider. We suggest you try leasing an Intel Dual Core Xeon server with a 500 GB hard drive and 12,500 GB of bandwidth for $199 a month.

On the other hand 750 MB of server space will allow you to host 3,750 webpages. All our plans provide you with plenty of space for just about any size site.

How about Bandwidth?

Just as with server space hosting providers also oversell their bandwidth. In the above example we talk about 500 GB of bandwidth for $8 a month. We suggest you call Savvis, MCI or any other major bandwidth provider and try to purchase 500 GB of bandwidth for $8 a month. We know it can't be done; so why do these hosting providers make this promise? They know that 95% of sites will never use more than 2 GB of data transfer, so they're risking the performance of all sites just to get business.

What is it You Really Want

Do you want superb server performance and quality support services that come with more than reasonable amounts of server space and bandwidth; or do you want incredible volumes of either that really can't be had if you needed them and very poor server performance that might affect your site's credibility?? It's really a very obvious choice for those equiped with a little knowledge or experience.