How Do They Do It?

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I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
 
Its actually quite easy. Since 99% of the People that sign up only use a fraction of it they can oversell like crazy.

With many it is even impossible to use the amount of bandwidth that they give you. If you notice they dont give you the speed of the bandwidth!

They Plop you onto a shared server with a 10MB link to the internet and then tell you that you get unmetered bandwidth. Problem is that the max amount of bandwidth you can get on a 10MB Link is about 3200 Gig.
 
pipermac said:
Problem is that the max amount of bandwidth you can get on a 10MB Link is about 3200 Gig.
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And thats considering nobody else is using bandwidth on the same server.

You'd run out of CPU/RAM resources quicker than you could use a fraction of what an overselling host will sell you.
 
I believe you ahve ever heard about overselling? If you are mnot working for you will have no idea why do they offer such things.
 
tecktalk said:
I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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They have really, really, really, really, really, really big servers.:D
 
tecktalk said:
.. actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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Actually in most cases such companies won't provide the services they advertise. You are bound to violate one of their TOS/AUP polices such as using too many resources such as excessive CPU and/or memory usage.
 
tecktalk said:
I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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because they are overselling it and they cant truly provide what they offer. its a marketing scheme.
 
tecktalk said:
I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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They are simply overselling & using deceptive marketing practices. Try uploading few TBs of files on their server & see what happens. Your account will be suspended immediately.
 
gigapros said:
They are simply overselling & using deceptive marketing practices. Try uploading few TBs of files on their server & see what happens. Your account will be suspended immediately.
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Well said!

tecktalk said:
I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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It is matter of all hosting companies TOS / AUP (Terms of Service / Authorized Use Policy). Such "fine print" policies are the ones which will dictate the actual resources which you can use in the real world and are such policies which may lead to the suspension or cancellation of your account if the mentioned policies are not followed.

One example can be found here and here.
 
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