Web Hosting Secrets Revealed - Must read before selecting your next host

Some good reading here.

I too, at first was looking for numbers, but overselling was not as popular.

Now, some offering unlimited or big numbers, are more after the quick sale then a long term relationship with a customer. Like previously said.

I prefer to pay more for realistic numbers. When numbers seem's alright and not oversold, I believe reliability is the result.

 

Gave the wrong link earlier
here's the link

http://www.mydosty.com/some-secrets.php

 

A great thread. Very informative.

But now it's made me wonder (with the overselling and such). How are you able to offer free hosting to over 50 people?

Link to thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=420539

 

Thanks tech. Very informative post. Considering all the aspects, what do you suggest i should go for a large community site?

A dedicated host? if yes then which company is more reliable?

 

Great informative post. Thank you
Imran

 

He's only offering:
100 MB Space - 1000MB Bandwidth
Which is not much at all, but would suit many smaller sites

How big is the community?
How many pageviews, how many concurrent users?

 

Thanks for the info cyanide. Hopefully this will be enough to get my blog off the ground atleast?

 

Yes, as "cyanide" said 1GB of bandwidth is nothing for us but it's much enough for bloggers who want to make their own blog without blogspot or wordpress subdomain

usually starting bloggers don't make enough money off their blogs - I thought about giving them some chance to get their blogs to the light

I don't pay for the resources they use since I paid for it already and they are idle resources so just thought of making some people happy

 

No problem, good luck with it

 

wow great article ,
how is that possible that shard hosting that giving 1000GB is overselling?
many shard hosting offer 3000GB?

 

Well, in order to really use those 3000GB you need much CPU and RAM and you won't find much in shared hosting

They just depend on the fact that not all the users will use all their allocated resources in the same month

To be honest, all the hosts do oversell (this is the nature of that business) but it depends on the overselling level

look at the example mentioned on the first post for more info about this part

 

Excellent post. Rep Added

 

now i get it thx
so it;s all depending on overselling level

 

Nice thread

but still selecting a host is a difficult task....

Overselling (+ bad support) = Cheaper plans
Quality hosting == big money (sometimes not worthy for low profile sites)

 

If you put the downtime and the visitors and revenue you lose when using a bad quality host, then on the long run you are making a wise decision by paying few $ more to buy a good host with the peace of mind

 

Something else, I'd like to add onto here after we've received several customers from this forum and I noticed a very bad trend.

Ways of receiving support:

You should not have to come to a forum and send a pm to the person who sold you for hosting in order to receive support. The reason I bring this up is a lot of the people who ordered hosting from us on here send me pm's. I assume this is a bad habit instilled due to other people they've bought hosting from on here previously.

You should receive support from a ticket system (emails as well generally) or possibly a live chat on their web site. Things like pm me on x forum or send message on msn to an owner is not a great way of receiving support. What happens if this person is not on? What happens if they block you? There is also no ticket or chat history if you decide to actually use their real support system.

 

Yeah, this is annoying specially when you get a PM without mentioning domain name so you don't have any clue what client are you talking to

While in a ticket you can check the client's account/invoices without having to ask him about it

Hope people change and take this seriously for their own good as well

nice point you had here man - Rep added

 

wrong section + copy and paste

 

the mods have chosen this place for the thread

about the duplication - can you provide a link ?

I can assure I wrote this myself and didn't post it anywhere...

 

great post truly enjoyable and educational read! thanks