Overselling

[fcolor]

I agree here. Its not only the hosting or internet providers, most of the services are oversold - and not because the customers are demanding more and more for less money. It's more because the technologies let you do it.

If you can have a good and expensive blade with some grid technology you will be able to oversell the world and that's it.

The point is that it is not fair and this is not what the hosting is meant to be. You are service provider and you should be able to meet your customers requirements. But that the hosts do is to put some big numbers on their sites and then, bang....please read our terms of service.

It seems to me that people resigned to receive decent service with added value and just follow the orders and restrictions of the web hosts.
So, what is happening - you are paying to get restrictions.
A service should include only the amount of resources that the money can buy - everything else would be cynical.

Other questions is that there are no regulations and penalties in the hosting world and everyone is doing what they want.

[TSO]

I hope it is Ok to post this here: http://www.hostreview.com/icontent/t...sting-industry . It is a recent blog post of mine related to the topic of overselling. I think it is generally much what fcolor is saying: overselling is happening not in response to consumer needs, but to competitive conditions.

[KryptonHosting]

I made myself a promise I would prevent oversale on my servers. I don't see why you would do that.

[RagekiJohn]

Overselling has become a common habit nowadays. I doubt it can actually be stopped as most new webhosts established nowadays start off with overselling. I too have been a victim of oversellers in the past and I think oversellers are just dishonest people trying to make an easy buck while other honest web hosts out there are struggling to compete with these oversellers.

[azoundria]

Simple solution -

Let your clients request more space.

Now you're not overselling and your clients can feel valued.

[TaoPhoenix]

Overselling has become a common habit nowadays. I doubt it can actually be stopped as most new webhosts established nowadays start off with overselling. I too have been a victim of oversellers in the past and I think oversellers are just dishonest people trying to make an easy buck while other honest web hosts out there are struggling to compete with these oversellers.

I think the good news is that unlike the ISP world, where having a choice of 2 providers is a luxury, the hosting world has a much more vigorous competition. There are services in other industries that create reference ratings so that if for example someone gets a tag of "oversell" then word would get out.

[iBoot]

no one runs without overselling

[~ServerPoint~]

no one runs without overselling

Maybe you are right. But I think that overselling to overselling is different

[Darknight]

Why must you guys keep bumping this thread.

[azoundria]

I think overselling is a touchy topic for some people. And maybe these people come in from search engines so they don't know this is an old topic.