My host cost ?5GBP p/m So why spend $1000's?
 

Hi guys

Now im fairly new to all this and reading all the posts on hosting I can see people are spending $1000's on dedicated servers.

When I started my search for hosting i found this company who offer shared hosting.Servage Hosting offer:

250 GB webspace
2100 Gb Data transfer p/m
Powerful Clustered Servers (Intel DUAL XEON Processors, SCSI Hard Drives, 12 GB Ram etc.)
Plus from what I can work out just about anything else you'd ever need on a server.

Now this only costs me ?5.25 GBP per month and it seems like you get everything you could ever want. If I ever need to upgrade I can just add another package to my account. Do these big boards seriously need so much hardware? Couldn't you just add a few packages together and have the same thing for a lot less?

I'm just wondering incase my forum grows seriously big!

Thanks

No you cant.

When your site grows big it uses resources, once you start using alot of resources the shared hosting will ask you to leave or kick you off becuase you'll be using more CPU then other users, they'll start to loose money on you, and your site will become unbearably slow for its users.

Sites that offer plans like that are whats called overselling. Selling you more then you'll ever be able to use, and they have to count on their customers not to use that much or else they'll go out of business. Go ahead and try to use that 250GB of storage and transfer the 2100GB of data at 5.25 GBP per month, and see if you even make it thru the month, let alone the first week.

Hopefully that pretty much clears it all up.

Thanks for the reply.

I know of one guy who use these people and he reaches his bandwidth limit everyday and hasn't had any trouble with them.

So even though these companies offer this they don't 'really' offer this if you see what i mean!? If they do business with you 'as long as it suits them' don't we as the consumer have rights?

Yes, take Servage for example, say you wanted to use all that GB in one day rather then a month. They'll first suspend your account, then ask you to remove it from their servers.

Granted its pretty hard to use 70GB in a day, let alone the 2100GB. But i know if i was paying for something and was limited in using it, I dont think i'd enjoy it to much. With a dedicated server you could dish out as much as you wanted in most scenarios :)

So am I right in saying that the big plus with dedicated servers is that you can pretty much have unlimited bandwidth?

See until I found this host I could see the plus side of having a dedicated server- big hd's, faster processors. Before I signed up I did ask the question about what would happen if I used all the bandwidth and they did say the account would be suspended until the the next allocation but that I could make an arrangement that if this ever did happen they would just add another account... Although until that happens I'll never find out if they actually will!

I admit that I'm probably slightly bias as they are my hosting company, but I have to say that they do seem better than most others. I'm not trying to advertise for them, just want to know the pros & cons for both types of servers

They'll have a "fair use" clause in their Terms & Conditions which says they are allowed to determine when too much is too much and terminate your contract without notice. Try asking on webhostingtalk.com forums on the subject, you'll get an educated reply on the subject.

There are other things they do to keep the price down, such as putting a large number of users per server which means they take more money per server. But of course it means that there are less resources to go around.

You may do fine with them, who knows. But generally speaking, ultra-cheap and "too good to be true" offers are "stay-away" situations.