Overselling Tendency In The Hosting Market

The true story is that most people cannot use more than a couple of GB of web space. Most users actually do not need more than a 100 MB of web space. You can generate 1 GB of content by shooting a thousand high-quality photos. And you would want to upload for your friends a small fraction of those.

Still if someone manages to accumulate and publish 20 GB of web space hundreds of others that bought this webspace will not. So what happens is that those hundred others are paying for the service used by the few people that can upload so much content.

Those offers include 300 GB of data transfer. If we assume that most websites would use a half of it or 150 GB of it - then a 100 Mbs line would be able to serve about 200 of those sites. Or an average website would need use the complete capacity of half a megabit of carrier to function normally. "We have not made a detailed market survey but I am almost sure that half a megabit of backbone internet connection costs even more than $10. This means that if the service that was offered was used the hosting fees cannot even cover the bandwidth costs." says Mr. Drangajov

Again the true story - Almost none of the customers would need or use this.

Say we assume that you use all your bandwidth - 300 GB /month or 10 GB a day and an average visit downloads 0,5 MB per visit from your website. Then for the 15 hours of most active Internet traffic you will have 15 000 visits. This I can tell you is not that easy to achieve and if you have a site that is this popular you would probably not want to host it with a shared hosts. Actually you would not be able to? Why?