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Why don't we offer "unlimited" service?
This is an approach often used by new providers, who have a lot of unused
equipment and need to establish a customer base in a hurry! You may be able to
find a genuine good deal out there, but you should be aware that:
- This provider may go out of business with little/no notice (with a bad
impact on your established web site visitors!).
- If your site really is a "hog" -- you may find yourself with
higher rates or disconnected, based on some "fine print" in a
contract.
- In a few months, after a customer base develops, the provider will
establish "limits" OR move "busy" sites to one server
and let them suffer poor performance.
While "all you can eat" may be a good model for some businesses
(including dial-up service) -- it can be devastating to web servers. Based on our
experiences since 1995, and hundreds of sites hosted -- less
than ONE percent of our sites exceed the Business Service limit of EIGHT Gigabytes
of data transfer! Average data transfers are very low.
However, a busy site will exceed these averages by a factor of ONE
HUNDRED! This is one reason we no longer host "adult" sites, ONE site
would use ONE Gigabyte/DAY! Those types of large differences between high &
low, force us to limit bandwidth so that we can provide ALL subscribers with
excellent and reliable service. Again, you may be able to find a genuine good
deal out there, but remember the old adage, you get what
you pay for!.
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