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Going Downhill?

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Does anyone else think it's going downhill here? I've seen people offering TB's of space, honestly. It got worse when there cousin started sying they were 12 years old etc. People offering 500GB B/W? Go to spry.com, look at the VPS's do they all come with 50000GB of bandwidth? Nope.

There's overselling and then theres false advertising. I wonder what would happen if everyone set up a class action law suit against hostgator for sying they offer 100GB space 1000GB b/w for $10 monthly.

It seems the free hosting section is awash with new schemes, with new hosts. It seems like a minefield of explosive free hosts to me.

I also saw a thread stating that 'we dont host warez, we just index it' here. Lol, fools

What does everyone else think?
 
Yeah, It's pretty crazy what some hosts are offering, and even crazier what some hostees are requesting for free.
 
Yeah, no adds, no forum posting, instant activation, mysql, php, frontpage extentions, email accounts, fantastico, sub domains, huge web space, and unbelievable bandwidth. I'm suprised they don't want us too cook them dinner to clinch the deal ..haha , or maybe take out their trash? :lol:
 
It's not false advertisement, because you can't prove they don't actually have what they're quoting. I'm not saying it's right, and it's definately not ethical.
 
It is gone completely crazy. And the most upsetting factor, is there are "host providers" there that will reply to such rediculous requests as porn with no ads etc and unbelievable amounts of resources for free and say "I can give you that and more. Sign up here. Instant activation"

Then, and this is the real kick in the head for both silly parties, within a month, that same requester will be back saying, "I need a new free stable host who can offer me the sun, moon and stars because my last host was unreliable and has somehow gone down for whatever reason".

Let's be honest folks.
 
CNLucas said:
It's not false advertisement, because you can't prove they don't actually have what they're quoting. I'm not saying it's right, and it's definately not ethical.
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I can, I could ask for proof that they have it! I could also report them to US trading standards and they would look into it. I'm pretty sure they'd have to show the US government that they actually had what they we're offering.
 
v0dka said:
I can, I could ask for proof that they have it! I could also report them to US trading standards and they would look into it. I'm pretty sure they'd have to show the US government that they actually had what they we're offering.
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It wouldn't be their job to prove anything. It would be your job to prove they were false advertising, being you made the claim.
 
It is gone completely crazy. And the most upsetting factor, is there are "host providers" there that will reply to such rediculous requests as porn with no ads etc and unbelievable amounts of resources for free and say "I can give you that and more. Sign up here. Instant activation"
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It's making hosts who can really stand by their offers of big accounts look bad.
 
Flaunt said:
It's making hosts who can really stand by their offers of big accounts look bad.
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Nah, it doesn't make us look bad. It'll actually make us look better when the other free hosts that are lying to the hostees about the ridiculous amounts of space they offer suddenly crashes and burns. Everyone just needs to crack down and stop wiping these baby a$$es everytime they cry for 5gb space, 100gb bandwidth, PHP, CGI, MYSQL and all the other goodies. Thats certainly worth $10 to me. Hell I've spent $10 a month on a VPS with the same specs just to tinker around with.

About the kid that was claiming to be able to give away 50TB accounts, I was LMAO so hard on that one. Too funny!!
 
Super early April Fool's joke eh? :)

It'll actually make us look better when the other free hosts that are lying to the hostees about the ridiculous amounts of space they offer suddenly crashes and burns.
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Happens too often for comfort!
 
yeah i mean, the largest amount of space i think i could buy for one server is 640gb, so this guy was offering like 80 highend servers per person for free

that could be like $4-50,000 + per month, it must have been a typo, but 50gb is still stupid
 
Yes, I think shared hosting is heading for a big downfall. Fortunately, it won't affect me too much, though I am a little worried for some folks I know who run their own Web hosts. The next couple of years should really be interesting.
 
The Stealthy One said:
Yes, I think shared hosting is heading for a big downfall. Fortunately, it won't affect me too much, though I am a little worried for some folks I know who run their own Web hosts. The next couple of years should really be interesting.
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Shared hosting is more popular than ever! It's some of the offers on offer here that are going downhill.
 
The Stealthy One said:
Yes, I think shared hosting is heading for a big downfall. Fortunately, it won't affect me too much, though I am a little worried for some folks I know who run their own Web hosts. The next couple of years should really be interesting.
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If what you say is true the ones that will be left will be the ones who can actually provide the product and service at the promised price. The gross overseller will be go quickly.
 
^^ Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Overselling can't last - not to that extreme. At such low prices ($2/month) and such high allocations of features, there might as well be free hosting. :) Which is why free hosting is now growing so fast. :)
 
For the example of HostGator, their tactics are quite clear, ok for the shared hosting it's looking a little ridiculous but look at their reseller plans which are more realistic. Even hostgator know that it's very very dangerous to be giving out huge resellers for cheap. They know what they're doing, they are simply using the "overselling tool" on marketing their shared plans.
 
When I was making my rounds of free hosts almost 2 years back, most of the hosts were using free or unlimited resellers for $49 dollars. Maybe that's still the MO these days!
 
Quite impossible on a shared server.

Thats why our max is 300 gigs. b/w

But really, to run a huge site all you need is 100 gigs. I think people don't know how to measure bandwidth. =/
 
It's unfortunate that things have moved on and requirements are higher so requesters seem to take it for granted that hosts are silly and will pay for everything while they play. Unfortunately some hosts are!
 
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