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BadBoy
05-02-2002, 12:09 AM
Ive been looking around here and see that some of these people offer to good to belive plans for instance,500MB webspace 25GB bandwith for 9.95 a month.Ok im just curious if five people sign up and those 5 use around 20GB of bandwith thats 100GB.Im just wondering do these hosts actually stand by that offer or is it just a advertisment ? I noticed on another thread that someone said "its just to advertise,i wouldnt offer that much bandwith that cheap".

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vipe
05-02-2002, 12:17 AM
It's called "overselling" bandwith, leveraging the 'law of averages'. Joe Banana might use 20 GB bandwith, whereas Bob Apple might use 2 GB bandwith, and so on...

marksy
05-02-2002, 12:20 AM
Of course you can offer this, I can run it off my 512k wireless connection here at the house. If you read those threads you'd notice that you can't do it in any financially responsible way. No use re-hashing it here - re-read the unlimited threads or search for the hosts name you are wondering about.