I'm just curious about something. If you are a customer purchasing a virtual hosting account, and you are promised 20gb per month of bandwidth, would you rather choose:

A) A host that uses a datacenter that has a few DS3'S that is packed with servers, has 200 accounts per server, and plays the numbers game (hopes that customers don't use all their bandwidth) to make money.

or

B) A host that places their servers at a commercial datacenter (UUnet, Sprint, etc.) so that their server sits right on a major backbone, true 24/7 server monitoring, No numbers game playing (if you are promised 20gb/month, you get it) and has about 150 accounts per server BUT charges 40% more than the host in choice A

Which would you choose?

Matt

I would choose host B

I would pay for better services. It's never a good route to go cheaper and get bad service.

Agree with Overskilled. Host B seems more reliable.

B

You always get what you pay for..... it is always best to stay away for the cheap route.....

Most people here will tell you "host b", but reality is different :)

I suspect that most people on this forum will say Host B. But this forum is not a representative sample of the marketplace for hosting customers.

Most prospective customers will lean towards the cheaper solution, not knowing the actual cost of the cheaper solution.

Look at ***** as an example of a cheap solution getting (but possibly not retaining) a lot of customers.

Well being in the industry I would go with Host B, because its a better solution.

A newbie would go with host a

And actually ***** has many many happy customers. Its funny how everyone mentions how bad they are, and I do agree they piss off many, but Its hard to please everyone when you have 100k customers and mistakes are going to happen

Joe

cool, thanks for your response guys. I'm more concerned about the quality of hte hosting that i provide rather than trying to amount tons of customers. Thanks for the input.

Matt

I agree with Jbiz on this one, I can't even begin to imagine the PR Hell it is to have 100k customers. I guarantee that ***** has 20X the number of happy customers that most of the hosts that get recommended over them have.... Im not saying they're good, I have no experience with them, but no host would have 100k customers that was nearly as bad as *****'s rep is. in certain places like these forums.

-Brendan