Le vendredi 11 avril 2008, Lauro, John a écrit :
I don't see how they (host gator) can offer that much at that rate. I assume they figure most people will just pay it and not come close to using it... They can always rate limit you to say 10mb and still call it unlimited, but still I think they would have to be loosing money even if they cap at 10mb/s... Their rates for dedicated servers are not that good, so it's not like they are getting extremely cheap bandwidth...
I have only been using about 250 gig of space and 650 gig of bandwidth a month
FYI, distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr host around 4TB of various linux distribution, and 650GB (yes Bytes) is less than the _daily_ bandwidth allow for all anonymous users using ftp/http/rsync (rate limit at 65mbits/s, the university, know mirrors and friends get more).
I fully agree with John... The question is how can they trash all data w/o any warning before ? Woot, I hope they never did that on important data hard to recover !