Overselling

I agree with twobit. It is a must for today's market. However, ony web hosts who know what they are doing must oversell. If they can increase the server resources and avoid its customers facing slow server performance and downtimes, then it is an acceptable thing to do.

Of course this is a hard process to do but experienced server admins can monitor the server's resources such as CPU power, internet connection speed, memory and add when needed.
 
Nearly every webhost oversells these days. There are hosts that take advantage of overselling and destroy theirselves.
 
There is nothing wrong with overselling. It is a basic marketing tactic in order to "squeeze the last of the juice from the orange" and may be frowned upon, however makes most of our hosting companies today successful. As long as the host knows when they get to a certain point, they will have to get another server, and do some rearranging, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
 
There MUST be some overselling invloved, otherwise prices would alot higher, like they were 5-8 years ago. Then it was like 100mb /5gb for $15-$20 a month!

With so many hosts in the market you have to oversell A LITTLE, but dont run yourself into the ground either. It's the hosts that sell completely outragious packages for $1 a month that bother me, and where I think it starts to become more of a scam then a sales tactic. Take a look at DreamHost.com, 20gb / 1TB for $7 a monthor some thing crazy like that. Thats just WRONG!!

I think you can safely oversell, if you manage it correctly. If you have a 100gb server with 1500gb bandwidth, you can safely sell it as if you had 115gb / 1750gb and be ok. But you still need to keep a close eye on things and upgrade when needed.

Just my opinion though!
 
Personal Experiance = Overselling Wrong

The reseller i was with last year oversold his server so much that my site and other peoples sites were down more than they were up. The big thing that got to me was that i was only useing about a Quater of the space i was sopposed to have been allocated.

Anyway When I decided to move (after only half the contract time) he first told me i could not have a refund, but then said i could have a refund in the form of a discount when i renewed my acount which i oviously was not going to do so i cut my losses and moved hosts(No Problems In last Year)

So Solely from personal experiance not only is overselling wrong but when there is problems you find the host was quick to take your money but will be reluctant to give it back even though they caused the problem with there greed.
 
I agree that "Overselling" is unexcusable. Your clients come to you because they trust you and then you are deceiving them from the start. When it stresses the server, no one wins...
 
What to say about overselling, hmmmmm. Whelp to begin, the majority of the industry oversells and I am not just talking about the hosting industry. It is a common day practice to oversell yourself in the retail industry. Ever walk into a store and purchase something that was not actually there, well that is considered overselling. We have to stop looking at these things as being negative and start realizing that if a company is able to oversell and still sustain a positive service then they are doing a great thing and being more efficieint with the use of resources.
 
I agree with a lot of your posts and disagree with some it is alright to oversell in my opinion but if you do make sure that you watch your servers as i see first hand of people overselling I have my own servers and I work Ticket Support Manager for a company that has over 200 servers leased out to hosting companies and the biggest problem i see with the servers problems is the hosts that don't watch there resources and squeeze more clients on I will not say who's server but there is one guy that we see at least 2 tickets a day in for problems he has 714 clients on cpanel is only rated for 300 to 350 clients and cpanel problems is what we get from that.

Like I said just watch your serve resources real close and your all right and don't keep pushing it to the limit before adding a second or third server to your account.
 
a1wh said:
Like I said just watch your serve resources real close and your all right and don't keep pushing it to the limit before adding a second or third server to your account.
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I think there is the secret of all. We hired acunett who provide us weekly proactive support and reports, and we can monitor the hard disk, memory and load usage every week.

Overselling it's not excusable, because many people simply don't use the 5% of the plan that they bought. For our experience we ran out of CPU or RAM before running out of disk space.

We take good care of not oversell CPU, but normally on diskspace or bandwith are fine on every server. We have around 30 servers, and I never saw one without diskspace.

The only servers that I normally see running out of space are the one used for freehosting...
 
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