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Bruce

July 1st, 2001, 17:30

I always hated these stupid conversions, but could anyone help me out and tell me how many gigs 477791691 MB would be

meow

July 1st, 2001, 18:36

I feel like I'm missing something here but...477791.691.

Bruce

July 1st, 2001, 18:46

:eek: 477791.691 gigs!? I think it's tme for me to find a new host then. There ain't no way I could have used that much bandwidth in the past 2 weeks...

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hmm... at $5/gig that would cost me over $2 miilion.

As if they expect me to pay that...

keith

July 1st, 2001, 18:51

i doubt even yahoo uses 1/10th that. it's definitely inaccurate.

meow

July 1st, 2001, 18:54

:D Get them banners up fast Phrozen!

Sure it said MB and not, huh, bytes?

Bruce

July 1st, 2001, 18:59

Yeah that's what it said. I copied and pasted it directly from the my control pannel.

meow

July 1st, 2001, 19:08

Well, congratulations. Please tell us where you host it. I think you may have found the unlimited host at last. :p

Bruce

July 1st, 2001, 19:16

lol, I was with http://alterhosting.com but they're just a small, private company and there is no way they could handle even 1/4 of that bandwidth

el crapo

July 1st, 2001, 19:25

Went to an online byte converter, Don't know how accurate it is but here are the results:

477791691 bytes= 0.44498 GB
477791691 kilobytes= 455.65766 GB
477791691 megabytes=466593.44824GB

LeX

July 1st, 2001, 20:49

Your cp is screwed up or something.

red_zinc

July 2nd, 2001, 15:41

It would be not easy to controvert numbers. The fat way to make money by dishonest providers. But the ones are too mad.

martian

July 2nd, 2001, 17:22

looks like you have a very very very popular site! :D

gyrbo

July 2nd, 2001, 17:28

May we also know the URL?

atlas

July 2nd, 2001, 18:24

1 GB = 1024 MB

Perhaps your host was counting by bytes?

-mk

Bruce

July 2nd, 2001, 19:16

I at first thought it was bytes, but it actually said it was megabytes. It's not even possible to use that much bandwidth though.

My host has taken my site down now because they don't know how to calculate bandwidth and they're saying that I owe them over $2 million.

Coolin

July 2nd, 2001, 19:55

I bet your host is trying to rip you off.

Bruce

July 2nd, 2001, 20:07

I know for a fact they were, but it's not like I'm just gonna go and pay them $2 million anyway so it doesn't really matter now.

meow

July 2nd, 2001, 20:07

Originally posted by Phrozen
My host has taken my site down now because they don't know how to calculate bandwidth and they're saying that I owe them over $2 million.
Uh...you're joking, right?:confused:

stu

July 2nd, 2001, 20:19

Originally posted by meow
I feel like I'm missing something here but...477791.691.

whoa.. impressive number..

how much bandwidth are you allowed per month?

Bruce

July 2nd, 2001, 20:26

Originally posted by meow

Uh...you're joking, right?:confused:

No, I'm serious.

Originally Posted by stu
how much bandwidth are you allowed per month?

5 gigs.

meow

July 2nd, 2001, 21:26

Are you using most of your 5 GIGs? Maybe you use more resources than most on that host and they don't like it and try to scare you off? I mean, they can't realistically think they will get that much from you (if you aren't a very rich guy).

Bruce

July 2nd, 2001, 21:49

Just a couple of days before I saw this, I was using less than 500 megs. What a difference two days make...

I wish I had that kind of money, but I'm just a student with a part time job.

martian

July 3rd, 2001, 12:20

Hmm strange, did you contact them already?

July 3rd, 2001, 22:06

Originally posted by martian
Hmm strange, did you contact them already?

They're the ones who contacted me about it. Then they disabled my account.

LeX

July 3rd, 2001, 22:45

Do you think it's a scam? Personally, I don't think so, because if the host is trying to rip you off (actually trying to get money from you), then they probably wouldn't try to bill you 2 million dollars... it would be more reasonable to both you and the host to charge you like 100 extra dollars or something, because it would seem more likely to happen. But 2 million?! :eek:

atlas

July 3rd, 2001, 22:49

They probably just have no idea what they are doing.... heh

July 3rd, 2001, 22:52

Well it did come out to $2 million at the cost of $5/gig.

After we had a nice little conversation about this though, they were really nice about it. They told me that there was no way all of their servers together would even be able to handle that much bandwidth so they're not going to charge me that and I'm even getting a refund of the $15 I paid for the month of hosting.

July 3rd, 2001, 22:54

Originally posted by atlas
They probably just have no idea what they are doing.... heh

It wasn't really their fault. It was that damn Plesk control pannel.

Anyway, the entire thing is all cleared up now.

LastActionHero

July 4th, 2001, 01:58

I guessed so.

I like your new name :D. Too bad you lost your right to have an avatar.

bigperm

July 4th, 2001, 02:14

so they're not going to charge me that I hope not!

July 4th, 2001, 09:38

Originally posted by lastactionhero
I like your new name :D. Too bad you lost your right to have an avatar.

I hate this whole thing. The name and especially the junior member thing.

I need my real account back.

gyrbo

July 4th, 2001, 10:08

What happend to it? Lost your password?

July 4th, 2001, 11:04

Originally posted by gyrbo
What happend to it? Lost your password?
I posted this in another thread.

I think I just realized what the problem is.

On my Phrozen account I changed my email address. I was supposed to get a vertification email which I didn't get (something wrong with the sendmail on the board?).

I was supposed to click a link to re activate that account, but since I never got the mail, I couldn't click the link, therefore vBulletin is saying I don't have permisson to post.