poolpaki — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:19:47 +0000

lol

leandroaliaj — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:03:00 +0000

Anyway, never go with anything that says "unlimited".

openmind — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:17:27 +0000

damn right!

teammatt3 — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:15:50 +0000

Quote: Hey don't apoligise! Thats the best thing about forums in that they allow for open and honest debate!

Nothing like an ol' debate!

openmind — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:45:56 +0000

Hey don't apoligise! Thats the best thing about forums in that they allow for open and honest debate!

sarge299 — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:24:32 +0000

Thanks all for your comments. If I started something, I didnt mean to, sorry.

It was just that I offer less bandwidth than I have seen around and thought that perhaps if I increased it, it would also increase my sign ups. Even though the customers I have now dont use what they are alloted, I was just hoping to get an idea of what I could increase it too without making it seem to far fetched.

Thanks again.

BIGMONAY — Mon, 31 May 2004 00:53:40 +0000

flipper, make some good point there mmmmmm.

openmind — Sun, 30 May 2004 20:20:16 +0000

But thats my point. You said "the norm is 50GB" therefore that indicates you wouldn't consider a plan offering less than that.

There is no such thing as a median amount of bandwidth as it will range from <10GB from hosts that know what they are doing to unlimited GB for hosts that live on Mars

So my question to you would be what is reasonable?

teammatt3 — Sun, 30 May 2004 20:15:03 +0000

I am just telling you what the "norm" is, not what I think is reasonable

openmind — Sun, 30 May 2004 19:54:07 +0000

teammatt3 wrote: I would say 50 gigabytes is the norm

Yeh right! Every site should have enough bandwidth to serve 10,000,000 page views a month!

The bandwidth issue really p***es me off simply because all the low cost hosts offer stacks of bandwidth that they know for a fact that the client will never use! I would love to lamp of couple of real heavy traffic sites that uses 90% of the bandwidth allowance and watch the server fall over!

The VAST majority of hosts that offer bandwidth at anything more than 10GB per month and then charge a reasonable fee for overuse are either falling into the category above or, as Andy says, lacking in other areas.

It's about time that hosts stopped devaluing the industry, gave people wjhat they actually needed rather than what they think they need and strated being honest!

Rant over