Hosting Suggestion

[FGN]

I think it would be to the benefit of Host Rocket to start an 'Unlimited' plan. This plan would basically be an Economy Plan but with Unlimited Storage Space and Bandwidth. I could see paying about $110/year for this plan.

[Justin]

That would be less money than our current lowest price plan. Also, there is no such thing as unlimited BW and storage w/ any webhosting company. It is just a scam :(

[FGN]

'unlimited' and it could be a yearly fee, not monthly. Which would, in most cases, be better for the hosting company.

Oh, and, what is the usual bandwidth limit for 'unlimited' plans?

[FGN]

I also think it would be cool to have a hosting plan with bandwidth metered by hour, rather then month. I know this is probably impossible due to server software, but it would still be cool.

I used the below equation to convert monthly bandwidth to hourly.

b/4.3/7/24=h (bandwidth amount per month in megabytes ÷ weeks in a month ÷ days in a week ÷ hours in a day = bandwidth amount per hour in megabytes)

Here is the economy plan in this formula:

15000/4.3/7/24=20.76

So the economy plan would have 20.76mb/hour bandwidth.
I would take advantage of this if I found a host offering it.

[petesmc]

The usual for unlimited bandwidth sites are between 2 and 4 GB. So, they are completely lying, but check out their TOS's and you'll find them saying they'll cancel accounts over certain bandwidths. Not Very good.

-Peter

[geeknik]

My question is why? I currently get 15GB monthly transfer. The most I have used since I have been a customer(Jan01) is 3.3GB. Plenty to go around.

[the_demigod]

I would add my voice/vote to the argument for added bandwidth offerings.
I don't seen the necessity for connecting server HDD space with bandwidth in a package.

The recent Hostrocket "Semi-dedicated" account is a step in a good direction but it should AT LEAST equal the Economy plan in terms of bandwidth. How/why???
for the $65 a month charged for semi-Ded [with its 30Gig transfer] I can buy 6 economy accounts with a total of 90 Gig.

Now, having [and working on] multiple sites [each on a different&independent domain]... guess which solution I would go for????????

BTW: I must congratulate Hostrocket for their cheap 'added' bandwidth. your prices ARE competitive.:D :D :D

[geeknik]

Actually, you could buy 4 of the economy accounts, unless you plan on paying 2 years up front for each of the 6 economy accounts. :)

[run2thesun]

Originally posted by geeknik
Actually, you could buy 4 of the economy accounts, unless you plan on paying 2 years up front for each of the 6 economy accounts. :)

Lol, that would come to around $1600!
I don't think my credit card even allows that much money to be spent at once :p

Mel.

[looby]

Hey, there is no such bird as "unlimited"!!!!

E-mail other hosts which tell that they are offering unlimited plan, and you'll see I am right!
Most of your e-mails won't be even replied, and those which get replied, you will be told that you have limits of about 1 GB /in most of the cases/. Also, most of the host that offer "unlimited" plan, forbid to put things for download...such as .zips.

I think you can hardly achieve 350MB HDD and 15GB Traffic...
My site is running 2 months now /with HR!!! :-))/ and I get about 700 visitors a day. My site is one of the biggest C++ related sites on the net /not famous yet... just too young/. The site has A LOT OF tutorials /over 130/ and a lot of other infomation on it... and so, I use 26MB and make about 3 GB traffic a month...

So, you see it's difficult to achive the limit...
If you are willing to put a lot of downloads though, then this might not be enough for you... but I guarantee that you will never see a real unlimied plan... as there is no such one!

Ilia Yordanov,
www.cpp-home.com
loobian@cpp-home.com

[sanjiv]

well the thing is, bandwidth is the most expensive of them all :)

So i really doubt that all those 'unlimited' stuff could fit into a 110/year deal :)

[M. James]

Originally posted by FGN
I think it would be to the benefit of Host Rocket to start an 'Unlimited' plan. This plan would basically be an Economy Plan but with Unlimited Storage Space and Bandwidth. I could see paying about $110/year for this plan.
There is NO such thing as "unlimited." That is one of the biggest lies in hosting, and on the Internet, period. Unlimited implies you can have as much bandwidth as you want. If that were true, you could store every MP3 out there on your HR server; there's no question the host wouldn't allow that, because it wouldn't be possible!

[FGN]

I think you can hardly achieve 350MB HDD and 15GB Traffic...

I had a site, hosted by HR, that was using 1 GB Bandwidth/day

I had to close it :(

It WAS http://www.diablounlimited.com/

Some times too much success equals failure :(

[EricHQ2]

If you take a look at any host that offers unlimited bandwithe, you will see that in their TOS that they have

a right to take down a website if it is causeing server performance to slow down

So just with that, that means they can pull down your site when ever they feel like it, since on shared hosting, sites always slow down the servers. Most of the time its unnoticiceable, other times t is.

And you dont really need unlimited space. My hdd is 60gb, i have about 5gb used, and 1 mroe gb of dedidcated swap memory if you wanna count that. I use this comp mainly for playing games.. i doubt i could fill it up anytiem soon. 1GB is enough for simple webserving.

[Kei]

I agree; unlimited space is a bit much (aside from the fact that there are all those restrictions: no .zip, no .sit, no .mp3, not .avi, etc.).

Even UNLIMITED bandwidth is asking too much; but I have the 350mb/15gb plan and I actually ran out of bandwidth this month (and am counting the days until next month begins -_-).

(Actually, off topic: does anyone know when the bandwidth resets? I think I'm going through withdrawal. o.O)

As for the hourly plan.... I'd prefer a daily plan. Because for hourly.... in the middle of the night, you don't get many hits or anything, and during the day I get about 10 times more than at night. Which means I'd probably overflow every hour during the day, but at night I'd be wasting what I could've used during the day.

If HR had a daily plan, or even a weekly plan, I'd grab at it. ^_^

[greensh]

hi wahts the news script you are using to update teh news from diablo unlimited.com? i like it

Originally posted by FGN


I had a site, hosted by HR, that was using 1 GB Bandwidth/day

I had to close it :(

It WAS http://www.diablounlimited.com/

Some times too much success equals failure :(

[Zac]

That's newspro. (Coranto [newspro v4] is better :o))

[Mr. Popularity]

In my younger days, I've fallen for that scam to run my old time mp3 servers way back in the day. However, I did realize the sad truth about the 'unlimited bandwidth' scams. If this were so true, then big companies like Yahoo! and MSN would sign up with them and save themselves thousands of dollars per month in bandwidth costs. Nothing is free, you pay for it somewhere or another, but I'm happy with what HR provides me. You can't beat it for the price. :P