Confused on what is a "proper" GB in term of diskspace and bandwidth.

[easyhostmedia]

As long as the clients understand what the seller means I have no problem. In the case of MBs and GBs majority of our buyers know what to expect and that is the most important. If they think am giving them "more" then I will be happy to keep my technical promise by giving them "more"

most clients are not bothered if 1GB is 1,024MB as all they want is to make sure they have enough space etc. for their websites to be online and that you as a host manage the server to allow this to happen without any issues.

 

[Collabora]

I don't think its a rounding off issue. Its a binary versus decimal issue (see my previous post). If it was purely a rounding off issue wouldn't a half terabyte drive be called a 550 GB drive? Instead we see both 500 GB drives and 550 GB drives. One is a half terabyte/decimal and one is a half terabyte/binary

 

[Gsh_MM]

I have found some compare 1GB to 1000MB.
For my customers to keep them happy, I use 1 GB to be 1024MB.
That way no one feels cheated out of disk space.

 

[deependranimiwa]

Yes, some just write in round no. 1024 is correct though.

 

[ohostme]

Typically the space you get is rounded to what they advertise as a portion of the space is allocated to OS or operating panel of the hosts choice.

 

[Harv45]

Typically the space you get is rounded to what they advertise as a portion of the space is allocated to OS or operating panel of the hosts choice.

That is just unethical if one does it for those reasons. Your supposed to include the overhead run costs within the pricing. Not disregard proper storage metrics for this.

Like for instance. how would you like your 8GB VPS to only be 8000MB and your provider just says that the 192MB is used for the Hypervisior?

 

[VerdinaNET]

These are just marketing stuff It's been like that for a long time.

 

[easyhostmedia]

The fact like most hosts i list on my site as rounded off to lets say 8GB, but our overage system uses 8,192 mb and our internal plans are listed as 1,024mb, so clients get all what they ordered

 

[WWTSLarry]

So the way it works is...

1024 bits = 1 byte (B)
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte (KB)
1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (MB)
1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte (GB)
1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte (TB)
1024 terabytes = 1 petabyte (PB)

So say you want to offer a place at 100 GB, then in WHM you would set the plan value (cause it's in MB) to 102400 MB. When this is calculated, the customer will see 100 GB in their control panel, instead of being shorted a few GB.

I had a hosting provider try to offer me a 300,000 GB plan once... and tell me it was 300 GB, but I was missing about 8 GB or so of my disk space. I'm like, I'm missing disk space. You need to fix it and set it to 307,200 MB in WHM, instead of 300,000 MB. They fixed it needless to say, when I proved them wrong.

Good luck, let us know if you need anything else.

 

[Occupant]

yes its the same when buying goods.

how many store do you go into and see an item selling at $1.346 or $1.344 these will be rounded too $1.35 or $1.34

In Australia, it's $1.32 becomes 1.30. $1.33 becomes 1.35 - We don't have 1 or 2 cent pieces.
Sorry for getting so far off topic