I was looking at the ebay auctions and came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1303702953

Basically it's unlimited bandwidth, 5 gig of space, unlimited domains all for $19.95 a year.

What is up with this?

How they can offer it? Easy. They can't.

It's not 5 GB of diskspace they are offering. It's 50.000 MB of diskspace. That makes it 50 GB's of diskspace.
And all that for only $ 19.95 per year.

WOW!:rolleyes:

Hmm, besides, what serious host would sell accounts on ebay?
You calculate your hostingprice based on your cost and add a % for the profit.

You don't sell it to the highest bidder. That is a business plan that is sure to go down the drain.

It is probabley a scam. First of all there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth and second of all the cost structure doesn't work out.

Originally posted by Pilgrim
It's not 5 GB of diskspace they are offering. It's 50.000 MB of diskspace. That makes it 50 GB's of diskspace.You're right, except that down at the bottom of the page it says Storage: 5 GB web storage. The dude can't even get the amount of space straight.

My guess is that he's running the thing off his home computer and DSL line, and he's trying to make enough money to pay for the DSL line.

I found the copy describing the services in several places:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=%22UUNet%2C+MCI+Worldcom+and+Avensys+Networks%22

Sign me up.

50,000 MB of Web storage
Host can common and foreign domain extensions (i.e. .com, .net, .org)
Your Own Control Panel
Unlimited Domain Names
50.0 GB Data Transfer
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
CGI Access
PHP
SSI
MySQL Databases
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Email Fowarders
Unlimited Email Aliases
Unlimited Autoresponders
24/7 FTP Access
99.9% Uptime
FrontPage 2000 Extensions
Site-Usage Reporting
Site Statistics
File Manager
Password Protected Directories
Daily Backups
Submit to Major Search Engines


There is no way to offer 50 GB of BW and 50 GB of DS for 19.95 monthly let alone yearly

I think we should email one of the 4 people bidding and tell them about unlimited bandwidth see what they say

That was a great idea to look on Google.

It's amazing what people will go for ...

This is the best http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1304065652

1,000 MB of Web storage
Unlimited Domain Names
5,000 MB Monthly Data Transfer
$1 (one) per YEAR

I bid on a better one last week, $1, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, for 1 year.

Was gonna point my raqbackup.sh script at it and see how long till I got booted from the server :) If I didn't get booted in a week or so, was gonna setup a script that ran while I was asleep DOWNLOADING IT to my home computer until I woke back up and turned it off.

But, I didn't do it, there is a VERY long story about all of this. It's... funny, and sad, no not really sad, just funny, the more compassionate among you might feel a bit sad, who knows, but it is definitely funny.

And it shows what a small world we live in.

oh and here you go:

Domain: Gotos.com

NAMESERVERS:
195.10.228.174
193.130.95.174


Domain Name: DONHOST.CO.UK

Domain servers listed in order:

NS1.DONHOST.CO.UK 193.130.95.100
NS2.DONHOST.CO.UK 195.10.228.132

Why is it everytime I see something like this it's Donhost's resellers?

Originally posted by Dixiesys
Why is it everytime I see something like this it's Donhost's resellers?

Well that or fasthosts, but yes I tend to agree. I got bitched out for saying DonHost weren't any good once so I just don't do it anymore... but there they are again. :)

Greg Moore

Originally posted by one_web
Just try to find 20 people willing to pay $20/mo
instead of dealing with 200 people paying $2/mo.
-Chicken
Heh, I just saw the signature :D No comment on the actual thread topic :rolleyes:

Is it 50G transfer monthly or annual?

If it is 50G Transfer total then that 50,000MB space can be downloaded once.

Also If it is a total 50G transfer we can calculate it as (50G)*($2/gig) = $100 !!!

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