On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote: > 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 ! > The old saying applies, "You get what you pay for". Myself being in the hosting industry I've warned people for years about hosting with the el-cheapo hosting companies who promised almost unlimited resources, then their account gets cancelled when they use too much. The policy for my company has always been offer a good deal and good support at a good price, and we've done pretty good. We've had lots of people that have left for BlueHost or HostGator or other el-cheapo hosts, only to come back later. :) -- -matt http://www.cyberbite.com