Website hosting pricing comparison

All you guys who rave about these 'local' companies that resell or rent servers overseas and have ridiculous packages like 8GB transfer and 1GB storage are mad in the head. What kind of site must you be running to need those kind of rates?????? Keeping in mind you are on a shared box, imaging if everyone used their allocation to its full? Good luck trying to load a page.

I always laugh when people rave about how much you get with Serv or Texo and use the allocations as a deciding factor. If they provide a good service then great.
 
Freshy-ZN said:
Keeping in mind you are on a shared box, imaging if everyone used their allocation to its full? Good luck trying to load a page.

I always laugh when people rave about how much you get with Serv or Texo and use the allocations as a deciding factor. If they provide a good service then great.
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Although you raise an interesting topic regarding "overselling", it is quite easy to undersell a server if the provider charges decent prices (unless they are using a reseller plan or on a low - spec VPS). That is, of course, unless they want to crowd or overload their equipment, but it is not necessary at all. This only works if their plans are realistic.

The companies that offer hundreds of gigabytes (don't forget about unlimited either) cannot avoid overselling, though.

I fully agree with you that the choice should be based on service and professionalism rather than allocation.
 
texo said:
You'd be surprised. We host many sites which use over 50GB of bandwidth every month. A few exceed 100GB per month.
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And I hope they have their own dedicated boxes because with that kind of traffic I know I would want mine to be. But really we are talking about some form of shared hosting in this thread. IOW non mission critical, not big ecommerce etc. Again I ask: WTF do you need 12GB of transfer for other than as a selling point?

I do what you and Raven do (one of my businesses) but what I dont do is advertise (99% word of mouth) I also believe I offer excellent service as I believe you both do as well. What I dont do is use huge allocations as a selling point. Not that Im saying you shouldnt.

How many R20 hosting packages must you have on the books in any given month to make a good salary?? 2000 minimum? Thats alot in South African terms. And if you arent going to oversell or run your servers at max then thats a few servers a month.

But yeah, these local deals of 5MB storage and 500MB traffic for R100 are totally ridiculous in this day and age. Thats 10 photos of your dog and a few emails to granny in New Zealand.
 
Freshy-ZN said:
But yeah, these local deals of 5MB storage and 500MB traffic for R100 are totally ridiculous in this day and age. Thats 10 photos of your dog and a few emails to granny in New Zealand.
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Ha ha yeah the price of hardware (disk drives at least) are pretty much similar so I see no reason why those are still from 10+ years ago. Bandwidth, I can understand the low allocation (as long as it changes when our circumstances do / changes with the times).

Well said.
 
I thought of getting a dedi-box earlier this year because one of my main sites gets quite a bit of traffic and uses up a whack of disk space (50GB), but my US provider says as long as I can keep the server requests under 50 hits on the processor per millisecond I should be okay. They don't worry about disk space or bandwidth - those are easy to supply. It's the processor that carries the overhead, so the harder you hit it, the more its going to cost you in terms of performance.

Local servers that I have hosted on have all been rubbish and I had to pay more for them. Go figure...
 
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"They host through Godaddy blah blah blah..."

What? Are you thick or something? That's like arguing that anyone with a .co.za is hosting through Uniforum...

Why am I the only one who picked up on this?

Come on people...:confused:
 
w.m said:
I suppose you would only use Serve/Serv Hosting if you don't have a credit card.
They resell GoDaddy's products which means they can't provide immediate support assistance. They have to contact GoDaddy firstly and wait a few days for a response etc.

I have been with them before and they are a good host. (That's if you think GoDaddy's hosting is good).

And on the point of whether local hosts (meaning their servers are located in South Africa) are better than international hosts. I do think so. Simply because local hosts don't impose such strict server load limits such as international hosts.
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Load limits?...

»Free Hosting---» Premium Hosting
Price---$0.00---$4.84 / month
Disk Space---1500 MB---Unlimited Disk Space!
Data Transfer---100 GB / month---Unlimited Data Transfer!
Add-on Domains---5---Unlimited
Sub-domains---5---Unlimited
E-mail Addresses---5---Unlimited
MySQL Databases---2---Unlimited

http://www.000webhost.com
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Then again...It is wise to investigate any company before jumping in...

RavenServers said:
Although you raise an interesting topic regarding "overselling", it is quite easy to undersell a server if the provider charges decent prices (unless they are using a reseller plan or on a low - spec VPS). That is, of course, unless they want to crowd or overload their equipment, but it is not necessary at all. This only works if their plans are realistic.

The companies that offer hundreds of gigabytes (don't forget about unlimited either) cannot avoid overselling, though.

I fully agree with you that the choice should be based on service and professionalism rather than allocation.
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