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coyouth
post Jan 31 2007, 02:51 PM

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QUOTE(Xanaris @ Jan 30 2007, 09:43 PM)
Huh?lol..
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Wonder whats his problem...
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Which company does this person represent? shakehead.gif
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post Jan 31 2007, 09:12 PM

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QUOTE(Xanaris @ Jan 31 2007, 07:04 PM)
Quoting from coyouth

His own I guess. He advertised his "services" here,just look back at the posts,his was cheap at rm25. I was interested.

He said he'd let me use a test account for 2 days. I'd have no control or ftp, only that I can download a file or something to test its speed/bandwidth.
Yea so okay, I waited,and waited and waited...he went offline. So like the next week,he came back on, I asked him if remembers anything? He said something like "I dont deal with you". So okay, I ignored him after that lol...
Then yesterday came this msg xD So here we are.
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Hmm... Interesting... LOL. Anyway, his offer was RM25 per month or per year?
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post Feb 25 2007, 05:51 PM

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QUOTE(pcbase @ Feb 24 2007, 10:47 PM)
my mom said dont buy domain AND hosting from same company.
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Why does your mom say that?
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post May 13 2007, 06:59 PM

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QUOTE(curlyfries @ May 13 2007, 10:08 AM)
What do you guys think of Lunarpages.com?
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Extreme overselling. Never choose a company that oversells to that extent.
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post Jun 22 2007, 11:55 AM

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QUOTE(inotqiqi @ Jun 21 2007, 10:48 PM)
I want webhosting because the current one is s*ckz.. always SERVER DOWN / DATABASE ERROR.. I've registered domain with them and now I need a transfer.. Below RM60 is it possible to get?
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For your information, there's even a webhost giving RM2 per month(but they're out of business now), but if you're prepared to pay that amount or any amount whatsoever, be prepared to expect the same service given according to how much you pay. So, if you're looking for one below RM60, you'll definitely be able to get it... nod.gif
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post Jul 12 2007, 09:59 AM

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QUOTE(MNet @ Jul 12 2007, 12:19 AM)
In the current hosting industry, new webhosts come and go every day- and this creates a lot of competition among those hosting companies. In order to stay competitive, many hosts have come to believe that overselling their server resources seems like a good solution to providing the lowest prices possible without loosing their profit margin.
Overselling is pretty much what its name implies, a web host or bandwidth provider sells more resources than they actually have available to provide. This is done with the assumption that the clients will not actually end up using all the resources they have been promised.
To explain this further, imagine this scenario:

Our un-named new host starts out by purchasing a server from a datacenter for $500/month (choosing an easy, round number). This server has two 500GB mirrored hard drives (so only 500GB is available, the other hard drive is a backup in case of hardware failure) and is provided with 1000GB of bandwidth per month.

The host decides that he wants to offer plans that provide 50gb of HDD space, and 100GB of bandwidth to their customers. Doing the math, he can fit ten accounts on to the server if he allocates the space (500gb/50gb = 10, 1000gb/100gb = 10). To clear cost, he needs to price these packages at $50/month ($500 server cost / 10 = $50). However, he forgot to factor in licenses for billing software, a help desk (plus wages for the technicians), control panels to control the server (example, cPanel/WHM), and the extras he wants (such as Fantastico). He is now looking at a cost of about $1000/month to run the server (again, an easy, round number). The host wants to clear at least 15% profit, so now he has to raise his prices again. This leads to $1000 + 15% = $1150, and $1150 / 10 accounts = $115 per plan.

After one month, the host has sold his 10 accounts, and is making $150 profit every month on the server. Checking the server logs, he realized that the server only uses about 25% of its capacity. Their clients are only using 125GB of the server's 500gb, and his bandwidth use averages at 250GB per month.

Here is where overselling comes in. With the idea that most of his clients will not use their resources, he decides to sell another ten similar accounts. The server is now only at 50% of its capacity. This gives our host another $1150 in profits! Great! - Until their clients' sites start to grow.

In short, typically hosts that oversell their servers will start out great: the server is fast and reliable and downtime is a minimum. However, eventually performance gradually declines as the users of the server use more and more resources. This leads to very unhappy customers, their renew rate starts to drop, the host's reputation is damaged, and the company eventually goes out of business.

On top of all this, there are many other things to consider when a server is oversold: CPU time and memory are never an infinite resource on a server and typically max out much sooner than the server's hard drives and bandwidth. This is usually what leads performance issues on the server as the CPU and RAM are 'full'.

Overselling is a common practice among hosts that offer the $4.99/month plans for huge amounts of resources (eg, 50GB space, 1000GB bandwidth/month). If their cost per server is $1000/month, that means you are sharing that server with 200 other accounts, so they should have 10TB of HDD space available, and 200,000GB of bandwidth per month. Not only are the server specs quite unrealistic (actually impossible), the server will be very unreliable!
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Well, most of the major webhosting companies in Malaysia oversell and people still go for them. hmm.gif

This post has been edited by coyouth: Jul 12 2007, 10:01 AM
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post Jul 26 2007, 08:06 PM

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QUOTE(MNet @ Jul 26 2007, 06:00 PM)
Yahoo ! sell domain only USD 1.99
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There's a catch to it. The last I read, it was only for the first year or something like that.
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post Aug 11 2007, 10:53 AM

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QUOTE(clixerz @ Aug 11 2007, 01:04 AM)

But if you're looking for more (US Server), please consider this:

- 300GB Hosting
- 3000GB Monthly Transfer
- Host Unlimited Domains  drool.gif
- Unlimited Addon / Parked Domains
- FREE Domain Name
- FREE Yahoo & Google Ad Credits USD$80
- Best International Support

Annual Fee: USD95.40 =e RM335.00 or get more savings if u pay for 2 years
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Extreme overselling. Never choose a webhost package that has such extravagant features while only paying for a meager sum.

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post Sep 9 2007, 06:37 PM

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