Hello, I never tried big hosting providers like HostGator or BlueHost before , because simply I can't believe their high shared plans which give you huge amount of space and bandwidth I'll take HostGator as example , they offer 50GB (space) + 200Gb(bandwidth) for first plan , ok if I used all that space will they suspend my account ?? it's really doesn't make sense let's assume my site eat like 100GB a month this means my account will be suspended for High CPU Usage , Right ?!! so all this fancy amount of space is nothing but a lie. What you think about that , is it true plans or a lie to get customers ??
Hello A.G, If you use up that many resources, they will find SOMETHING to suspend you or terminate you. If you read a company's TOS, they are allowed to terminate you for just about anything they want, if they think something suspicious, etc. Make sure you don't pay yearly as you most likely won't get refunded. I am not sure if HostGator lives up its spec's, so if you get someone here to share their story about that plan, it would be for the best. Good luck!
I've been with HostGator for nearly a year now and I have nothing bad to say about them or their services. All these hosting services work off the same principle: the vast majority of customers will use minimal resources. This will offset the few who use ALL 50gb space or 200gb bandwidth. That being said, if you come really close to that limit they will probably ask you to upgrade your hosting plan.
Yes you are completely right. I actually did host with HostGator, and they give you all this space and bandwidth but as soon as your site starts getting a lot of traffic they suspend your account for high cpu usage. When i called support to find out what happened to all the bandwidth they said i will have their explanation was that cpu usage is totally different thing. Well if you ask me i think thats bull. If you have a high traffic website then ofcourse it is going to take alot of cpu usage. Unless i'm hosting a website with nothig but couple words with no databases, then all that bandwidth is just useless info they try to tell you just so you sign up.
I use 1and1. I've had plans with 1000 gig bandwidth go over by 500 gigs withouta problem. They simply charged .50 per gig over the thousand. The did not suspend the account. We hear a lot about accounts being suspended for other reasons to "cover up" the reason of too much bandwidth. I'd bet a pretty penny that most of the reasons are true and we only hear one side of the story. I can't imagine a company like Host Gator deceptively inflating services. I think this is the same type of conspiracy theory that was perpetuated about PayPal by people who knew they broke the TOS but would never admit to any wrong doing and blamed PayPal for a suspended account.
I agree 100% with you , same thing happend with me @ CirtexHosting this high bandwidth is only for pure HTML only website as they don't take any CPU while if you have PHP & MySql website and few hundred visitors they will suspend your account for sure. Unless they expect all people will host pure HTML only websites ??!! I feel this kind of lies can't be classified as Marketing Strategy by the hosting company , It should called Pure Consumer Cheating I bet your site was html only , can you tell me what was your site about and does it contain php/mysql database and 1and1 use cPanel or not ??
The site used Flash, PHP and MySql. Even used the gd library for image processing quite a bit. You were probably using some kind of chat program that uses alot of cpu resources. Most discount hosting packages state right up front that those are not allowed. In 99 out of 100 cases where a hosting company suspended an account, I would bet that proper investigation of all parties actions, a third party arbitrator would find in favor of the host company.
And i would say that you are unequivocably wrong in that asumption. From an insiders point of view, this stuff goes on all the time. Hosting and domain companies are the wild west and even some of the big ones have extremely shady practices. I can tell you that overselling is enabled on most servers and that there is no way that they could load balance the server if everyone used their allocated limits. Lets look at an example....the typical low range shared hosting that provides a huge amount of bandwidth...say 50gig per month. Say they have 100 customers on a dedicated server, if each customer uses their allocated bandwidth per month, there is no way that the system would be able to accept that level of burst traffic. Plainly put, you would get site cant be found messages. Now clearly no hosting company is going to allow their resource usage to get to that point. So what do they do? 1. They go and lease and setup another dedicated server to move some of the clients over to. This takes time manpower and money. 2. They kick a couple of the higher usage clients off to make way for all the ones that use 1% of their allocated traffic. Now considering that for many of the hosting companies in the lower tier of the markets profit tier is razor thin....which option do you think they are going to take? Just look at the many offers that show unlimited bandwidth....is there truly such a thing??? their might be unmetered ports but they always have an upper leel of burstable traffic...so clearly they arnt unlimited. The simple fact is that it is just a unique selling point...take a look around some of the message boards that hosting companies actually discuss the market with each other and you will see that this is a really common practice. Now this is just the tip of the iceberg..when you start looking at the domain side of the business things get even murkier with domain kiting and failed client registrations. From someone who used to be on the inside of the hosting business.....this DEFINITELY goes on. jryan54
In today's web environment 50gig/month is hardlyhigh bandwidth. As far as an insiders view, produce a "Jeff Wigand" from on of the hosting big boys to verify your assumptions. The hosts you refer to claiming unlimited bandwidht. Just by them making that statement you should stay away to begin with. I haven't heard of any reputabe discount sellers like Hostgator or 1and1 claiming literally "unlimited bandwidth". Also, please site the message boards you have seen discussions by these hosts admitting to a "bait and switch".
what's the catch with those sites, though? I find that a lot of hosts offer incredible plans on the front page of their site, and then screw you by charging another $30/mo for cPanel, or something stupid like that.
Hostgator is a reputable company with tons of customers. I think they are definitely overselling though which is just a banking on the idea that you won't utilize all the space. I've never had a website that demanded this kind of resources so I wouldn't know. Check out my company if you are interested.
I have been asking to leave hostgator before. I was running an ad script showing about 200k ads day. about 2 gigs of transfer a day.
You may try in ebay. search for hosting and there will lot of choices. I m renting only $9.90 per year with unlimited space and bandwidth.
I would just recommend going with a dedicated server or VPS. You can get unmetered deals very cheap now.
could you please suggest some? The best I've ever found for dedicated was $1500/yr without cpanel or tech support.
I would think that if you do host a site that needs a lot of space and bandwidth, then the dedicated server route may be a good alternative.
LOL I love guys like this....hate being challenged and want everyone to do their research for them. Well sorry boy...but I dont really care about spending a few hours compiling some facts to placate someone like you. Go out and do your own research. What I Said Stands
Don't use 1and1. It's a big lie, someone else was paying for my website, then they stopped, 1and1 charged the cc, and the number was changed. so I tried to pay via paypal, and their freaking paypal system was down for a week, and when it was working, my site got SENT TO A COLLECTIONS AGENCY! and the stupid support people in india which you can't understand, can't do ANYTHING about it. and so I lost my $1300 site...