verselling is a big trend aren't using all of the available
in the web-hosting world at bandwidth. Because of this the
the moment. It's an easy company then assumes that it can
way to get more out of your safely sell at least 10 more
servers than normally is packages on the one server. If
possible. The basic idea of the original number of customers
overselling is that the majority already covers general costs then
of your clients are only going to the extra packages provided by
use a fraction of the resources overselling are pure profit.
allocated to them so there's
going to be a lot of wasted The advantage of overselling for
bandwidth and space. Overselling the host is that they make more
involves taking a gamble and money off each server than they
selling more than you can handle otherwise normally would be able
assuming that the unused to. The advantage for the client
resources will cover it. is that this extra revenue is
usually transferred on (at least
Let's say for example that a in theory) by cheaper hosting
server hard drive is 80GB and has packages with more features. The
1200GB of bandwidth. The hosting problem is that these features
company has a look around and are often ‘smoke and mirrors'.
decides that to be competitive A few users would be able to use
they need to offer plans with 2GB their entire allotment without
of disk space and 40GB bandwidth. any trouble, but if every single
With these figures they can only client were to build their
offer 30 hosting packages per website up to maximum capacity
server. This leaves quite a bit the host wouldn't be able to
of wasted disk space and after a handle the sudden increase in
few months the company will demand without adding extra hard
probably notice that their users drives, buying more bandwidth, or
perhaps even another server. This
would most likely lead to a fair Overselling will generally not be
amount of downtime. a problem unless a host gets too
greedy and ends up selling much
Web hosts aren't going to more than they could possibly
advertise the fact that they provide for. On the other hand,
oversell. It's not something that it's not even necessary as the
will gain them customers and it's host can usually make enough
likely to drive away a few. In money to make ends meet without
general however, they're likely overselling. It will generally be
to get away with it without any quite difficult for you to find
real problems. The reason the out whether or not a host
idea even exists is that it is oversells unless they
true that the majority of specifically advertise it, or
websites don't use all of the they're well known for having
space that's allocated to them. problems due to excessive
The problem is that it's not a overselling. Just make sure you
particularly honest way of do some research and choose a
dealing with clients. It's a reliable host, not necessarily
little like the ‘Emperor's New the one that appears to offer
Clothes' where the host is just ridiculous amounts of bandwidth
hoping that no one notices the or disk space for far too little
fact that a package is in fact a money.
little nude.
About the Author:
Daniel Punch is a writer working at M6.Net: ‘The web-hosting company for humans.' M6.Net is working hard to help humanity experience the power and freedom to develop their own part of the Internet, to share their information and connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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