Have HostGator 600gb plan....will they really let me use that much?

I recently purchased HostGator hosting with the 600gb plan

I plan on filling up a good 100gb of it with media...will they say something?
I read the HostGator TOS and I am not violating any of the rules they have.

Will they be upset if I use the account for backup purposes?

 

600 GB transfer? What kind of plan is it? a dedicated server?
how much are you paying per month?

 

it is 600gb storage and 6,000gb transfer
shared hosting

http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml


i paid about $50 for 6 months upfront using an offer code



will they start getting fussy once i fill up??

 

yes they will

they will say your using a certain % of the cpu and then tell you to upgrade to semi and then to dedicated.
just make backups alot and be prepard

 

this is supposed to be my backup lol

and i dont plan on using cpu resources that much
this is from the TOS

my files are uploading and cpu usage is at 0.11

 

If it's for backup (IE: you're not using the bandwidth for user to download them) i suppose it'll be ok. But if you create apage for users to download that, i think you'll get a huge warn soon.

 

well lets say i use 100gb in the first month to get all my files there and then after that about 10gb a month transfer

 

If they allow you to use 600gb and your only using 100gb, then whats the problem?

 

Yes they will. Don't fall for those bloated shared hosting packages. Before you actually start reaching the limits you'll be warned.

 

simply yes!

Since you will be using it for file storage that breaks there tos
you will propbley go over the inode limit
and even then they will just say your usiing too much resource and kick you off, if your looking for a backup solution check my sig we offer offsite backups on multi raid array servers

 

I think there is no problem when they alllow you upto 600GB

 

If they do, it could make for a good blog post.

 

You get wha tyou pay for

 

So are you saying your planning on using the majority of the space just for storage that won't be accessed very often?

 

about 5 gigs transfer a month

 

The answer is simple, no.
You won't be able to use that much, because you simply can't without breaking their TOS. All that space and bandwidth is just a marketing tactic. Sort of like the estimated MPG from the EPA on automobiles.

 

i read the TOS completely and i am not breaking any rules

i am not hosting warez or anything. it is not JUST a backup as a few people have access to the files.

i also have a few other domains on the account

 

When you store too many files, regardless if it's within the plan limits they give you, you will be breaking their TOS for abuse since you'll have to utilize more disk I/O and CPU usage.

 

I don't think that 'backups' are allowed in the TOS, don't all files have to be publicly accessible and linked to, and I think there's a cap on having too many 'media' files?

 

Where did you read this at?