Hi,

I found that the cheapest over-the-limit bandwith host is Multipleimage ($2 for each Gig)

Are there any other hosts with less than $4 for each Gig?

Thanks.

Dedicated hosting?
or Shared?

Originally posted by padangrm
Are there any other hosts with less than $4 for each Gig?


www.rackshack.net
www.acsdatanet.com
www.internetexpress.com

What about efreeservers.com?

Jim

Originally posted by jimb
What about efreeservers.com?

Jim

3 outages in the past week I believe.

I think they are down right now.

Jim

How about www.tera-byte.com or www.liquidweb.com ?

tera-byte is 4$ for a gig.

Most shared server plans I've seen, usually average about $3 to $4 per GIG. Of course, as someone asked, it depends if it's shared or dedicated/collocation, because you can get some pretty good deals with certain data centers. Of course, you can also often get good deals even on shared hosting. $4/GIG is not too bad, but I'd personally not look at too many that are over $3/GIG. Of course, a dedicated solution will be cheaper still.

If you use two separate accounts , for example 2 accounts at tera-byte, THEORITICALLY BANDWIDTH BECOMES CHEAPER if they ( tera-byte) provide what they claim

$99 - 20 GB

another $99 - another 20 GB

so at $ 16 or something like that per month you have 40 GB

likewise with 4 accounts

$32 or so per month - you can have 80 GB ( and 800 MB space !!!)

Thats cool ;)

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Yes but I believe almost no one is gonna use the full 20GB bandwidth (But I could use some more bandwidth, exceeded 30GB bandwidth last month). Once in a blue moon, a few people use 20GB or close (or even more), so I think tera still makes profit.

Originally posted by safu
If you use two separate accounts , for example 2 accounts at tera-byte, THEORITICALLY BANDWIDTH BECOMES CHEAPER if they ( tera-byte) provide what they claim

$99 - 20 GB

another $99 - another 20 GB

so at $ 16 or something like that per month you have 40 GB

likewise with 4 accounts

$32 or so per month - you can have 80 GB ( and 800 MB space !!!)

Thats cool ;)

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Originally posted by safu
If you use two separate accounts , for example 2 accounts at tera-byte...

Most host won't knowingly allow you to sign up for two plans to escape overage charges.

Originally posted by Chicken


Most host won't knowingly allow you to sign up for two plans to escape overage charges.


may be unknowingly then :D

or may be one account for me, another for my gf - he! he !

or one account at tera-byte - 20 GB - $99
another at aletia - 10 GB - $99
another at discount-hosting - 5 GB - $10 ( all per year charges)

am I not good at maths ;)

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Originally posted by Tim_Greer
I'd personally not look at too many that are over $3/GIG.

Do you say this because your employer charges exactly $3/Gig?
:D

Originally posted by Walter


Do you say this because your employer charges exactly $3/Gig?
:D

No, I don't. I say this, based on the fact that I searched for near a full year for a quality host that also had good bandwidth prices at the same time -- which is very difficult to find. Myself and another individual were also (at the time) looking to start up a web host, as he had about 20 or so dedicated servers he was doing hosting with and we were looking for a better data center -- and he was using like 6 different one's, all of which had problems. We looked for other hosts that could meet a certain price range, yet have better connections and service. We found some okay one's with good prices and lines, but their service was bad. It was always something, so I just gave up after looking for many months and he moved on to continue his hosting as he was. I looked at some prices to just even hook up a T-1 to my house, I was desperate. I just wanted to do some hosting for some decent clients and give them a good service, but in a range that I could still make money from, yet not have to pay a massive amount to host. I then was offered to partner up with some various companies that didn't host huge sites and were using T-1 lines.

A T-1 is about the lowest you're going to get away with if you host the right people, and the bandwidth for a T-1, was $3/GIG. Most hosts are in (or claim or be in) decent data centers/NOC's and say they are hooked up to multiple OC3+ lines. The price of bandwidth, of course, goes down with the larger lines you get. In other words, if a host says they have dual Oc48 lines (and some do) and they say they can't go below $3 or $4 per GIG for bandwidth overage (and most of those type do!), than they are either lying or there's something else wrong -- since they are likely paying around $1/GIG. I don't think in light of that, seeing that most people are doing to have a DS3 or OC3 +, that it's unreasonable to say, "well, I'd like to not have to pay much more than I would if I had my own T-1 line".

That is why I say "much over $3 a GIG", because a lot of hosts out there average about $3 or $4 and you can still get very good connections at $3/GIG and not have the quality suffer, and it's not an unreasonable or unusual price for hosts to ask now-a-days (and because that's just my opinion -- but I know of plenty of hosts that have a good service that charge up to $5+ per GIG for overage). The fact that my employer charges $3/GIG has nothing to do with it, and in fact, a few months ago I posted the same thing to someone else's question about this, and I actually thought about it and thought to myself "uh oh, I better check what we charge per GIG before I look like an idiot", because I was new here and didn't have all the prices. Nicely enough, it turned out that we did charge that, which saved me from looking like a fool and embarrass the company I work for. I hope that explains it and how, no, it's not because of that. This is one of many things I tell my employer about how great the service here is (no, this is not self promotion), because I spent so long looking and I immediately notice the majority of things that make us stand out -- but only in my opinion that I formed while searching and that I'd have likely ended up hosting on this company if I found them before I was hired on. I'm serious about that. And, in addition, I actually have found a couple of other's that I might have ended up with eventually as well, but you get the point. Of course, that hosting idea was out the window before I was hired on and now it's a definite out the window. :-)

Yes, many hosts claim to "have" an OC3+ or such - in reality, most hosts are small hosts and they don't "have" it, they are located in a NOC which "has" an OC3. You know, I know, but some hosts seem to rely on this marketing technique.
Second, you have to make money, and most smaller hosts don't pay <$2 per GB, they pay anywhere from $2 to $5 themself (if they are resellers). Many of them provide a good service to their customers, why shouldn't they charge an aditional 1$ per GB?
BTW, my compliments to your employer, when I was a reseller I was with them for a short while and their service was good.

Thanks for that and for the insight. This is indeed true what you said. It really all depends. Some hosts can afford the loweer fees and some can't. Some can afford to provide good, reliable service for lower fee's and some simply can't. To some people, it's worth paying whatever they can afford or is reasonable to them, even if it's more than someone else would be willing to pay, to know they are in good hands. I suppose I should have been clear about that, because that's what it usually comes down to and sometimes the service can be even better with a smaller host/reseller that can pay special attention to their client's needs, whereas a larger host maybe can't -- even if the stability and uptime are good as well as the bandwidth prices. Good points, thanks for sharing them.