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Does Netnibble oversell?
By Dave-C - CEO | July 17, 2007
Looking through the various ticket queues, I see one particular question popping up more and more frequently - That is “Does Netnibble oversell?”
In short, the answer is a plain, simple, irreversible “NO!“.
Overselling is a practise employed by some hosting companies to offer you huge quotas of disk space and bandwidth at incredibly low prices, in order to attract the less web-savvy customers to their crammed-full servers. I saw one instance of this a few days ago with a company offering 1Tb (yes, ONE TERRABYTE) of disk space for around $6 a month! The web hosting companies employing this tactic rely on the fact that not all customers will completely fill their quota, and therefore they can cram more and more customers onto a server than the space they have actually sold.
All overselling achieves is:
- Over-stressed servers and increased down-time for maintenance and repairs
- Degraded performance as servers attempt to cope with hits to too many hosted sites
- Customers being moved around from server to server as their web site grows and the disk they are on being filled to capacity
- Bad karma with customers using servers hosting way more web sites than they are designed to handle
For the record, Netnibble servers are generally sold up to about 70% of their disk capacity - This allows a little breathing space on the servers, and spare space for occasional upgrades which take place without having to shuffle customers around from one server to another.
When you buy a hosting package from Netnibble, you are allocated exactly what you order - A drive may be less than half full in reality, but if it’s a 100Gb drive with 70 1Gb customers hosted on it, that’s it - No more additions, we just order another drive or box.
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