http://www.hostonce.com

they offer the "unlimited mess" and as we all know that's impossible. Yet I still have many friends who are "going wth them" because of what their offering. I need someone to at least prove they are not any good. Yet, I have found no information anywhere on them......amazingly

Tell your friends to try to upload about 5 terabytes of stuff and see what happens.

From their site:


Unlimited Disk Space
There is no limit on the amount of disk space on our Internet servers that your accounts may consume.

Unlimited Data Transfer
There is no limit on the amount of disk space on our Internet servers that your accounts may consume.


They're repeating themselves. :)

This right here should scare your friend away:

"UNLIMITED USE POLICY
High bandwidth usage: HostOnce.com offers an unlimited use policy by maintaining very large ratios of bandwidth per customer. In rare cases, HostOnce.com may find a customer to be using server resources to such an extent that he or she may jeopardize server performance and resources for other customers. In such instances, HostOnce.com reserves the right to impose the High Resource User Policy for the consideration of all customers."

They are basically saying that "too much is whatever we say it is". I've seen cases time and time and time again - where we will get a refugee from an "unlimited" host, because the host suddenly decided that 5, 10, 20 GB of bandwidth was "too much".

--Tina

5 tera bytes LOL

seriosuly, I've tried to point them to a site wich offers a reasonable amount of space and bandwidth, but they really don't care. I just want to hear from some clients of hostonce.com

Just tell that to your friends
To upload 2-4 GB in their account.
And then, download it through http 10 or 20 times :)

9kd.net died in that way :)
Somebody downloaded 50 GB daily from their unlimited BW account

Tina: Yes, and this interpretation may change day-to-day or month-to-month depending on what the bill from their upstream looks like.

This whole "unlimited" concept is a snare and a delusion. Why people continue to fall for it amazes me. How can we drive this point home? Let's see. . . how about your electricity provider? If electric companies advertised unlimited electricity for your home, would the average consumer forgo common sense and not turn off the lights at night and run appliances 24/7? How long would it take for the public at large to figure out that this is patently ridiculous and anyone touting "unlimited" anything is. . . well, not being straight-up.

ningaming: I'm serious. Tell your friends to try to upload 5 terabytes. If they get cut off after anything less, then they should call and complain and demand their "unlimited" disk usage. (Remember, the host put it in writing on their site in plain English.) Then come back here and tell us what the host says.

It'll be a hoot. :)

well my friends are going with them, and their site like is an anime site with like full episodes. They expect to take about 30 gigs of bandwidth a month. This should be funny.

seriously, I have never heard of them at all at WHT, how come no one ever reviewed them?

I think that the reason is that the members of WHT are to smart to sign up with them :)

Originally posted by ningaming
well my friends are going with them, and their site like is an anime site with like full episodes. They expect to take about 30 gigs of bandwidth a month. This should be funny.

seriously, I have never heard of them at all at WHT, how come no one ever reviewed them?


If you do a WHOIS on their domain, they've only had it registered since June of 2001. That's prolly why nobody has ever heard of them!

--Tina

that can't be to correct, because I actually saw them when I was thinking about getting hosting, and I started looking around in May 2001, and I noticed them then (I quickly went past them of course)
?

I just did a whois search on HOSTONCE.COM as well, and the domain was indeed only registered in June of 2001.

Please see below:

Record last updated on 05-Oct-2001.
Record expires on 08-Jun-2002.
Record created on 08-Jun-2001.

(taken from the query)

You can't really go off that though. We have one that turns up:

Record last updated on 17-Sep-2001.
Record expires on 20-Jun-2004.
Record created on 17-Sep-2001.

It was actually created 17 Sep 2000, but transferred to our name in September this year.

So it could be that the domain was only transferred to their name in June from another party.

Regards

Gary

Originally posted by Editor
You can't really go off that though. We have one that turns up:

Record last updated on 17-Sep-2001.
Record expires on 20-Jun-2004.
Record created on 17-Sep-2001.

It was actually created 17 Sep 2000, but transferred to our name in September this year.

So it could be that the domain was only transferred to their name in June from another party.

Regards

Gary

I didn't mean to imply that they hadn't been in business only since June. The question was why hadn't anyone heard of them before. They may very well have been using a different name before now.

Case in point - our official business name is White Lake Web. We've been around since 1997, but we purchased the domain name affordablehost.com in 1999.

Anyway, I hope everyone understood what I was saying when I said their domain was only just registered...that is probably why we haven't heard of "HostOnce"

--Tina

Originally posted by AffordableHost
I didn't mean to imply that they hadn't been in business only since June.

I didn't think you did. :-)

I was showing how the created date can't always be used to determine when a domain name was registered, and to clear that bit up for the original poster as to why they may have seen the domain prior to that date.

We're in a similar situation as you where our main domain (from our ISP days) goes back years...but some of the domains we run under today are as recent as another service we added this week.

Cheers

Gary