I've been looking at Verio's VPS Standard Package for $150 per month with unlimited bandwidth (http://home.verio.net/products/hosting/web/vps/compare.cfm)

How are they able to do this when everywhere else I read says that bandwidth costs so much money? Is this just a fraud? Has anyone dealt with this company.

Thanks for everyones help

Michael

BTW, How much data transfer/mo do you really use?

cheers,
:beer:

I'm not really sure, but I know it is considerable. I have a lot of cgi scripts that I use that are quite cpu intensive. Unfortunately as my site became more popular, my host shut me down and never told me just how much bandwidth I was using. However, I did view the logs to see that I was getting 10,000 hits a day and growing.

Unfortunately as my site became more popular, my host shut me down and never told me just how much bandwidth I was using.

Aha... that's exactly how they are able to offer unlimited bandwith/transfer. Many host who offer this type of promise will eventually shut your site down with a reason that your site has consumed too much of their server's resources. Well, let's assume bandwith price is about $4/GB, that means $130 will buy you only 42.5 GB of data transfer per month. There is no host that will be able to afford unlimited bandwith... They will say they can, but with a catch that once your site consumes too much bandwith, they are justified to shut your site down (look at their TOS).


However, I did view the logs to see that I was getting 10,000 hits a day and growing.

Say your .html size is about 50kb in average, 10000 hits per day is about 500MB of data transfer per day... so about 15GB/mo worth of data trasnfer... Not very much... I would not pay $130/mo for this... too expensive for a site needing only 15GB-30GB of transfer per month...

In fact, you may consider getting your own dedicated server.... In fact you can get your own dedicated server for around the same price you are paying right now. Although the data transfer per month might be smaller with such a price, you own the whole server. Why would you share a server with hundreds or thousands of other people?

At any rate, unlimited data transfer is a no-no... Don't even go with a host offering unlimited data transfer, especialy with that price.

cheers,
:beer:

Michael, see
http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=6783

I've been looking at Verio's VPS Standard Package for $150 per month with unlimited bandwidth (http://home.verio.net/products/hosting/web/vps/compare.cfm)

How are they able to do this when everywhere else I read says that bandwidth costs so much money? Is this just a fraud? Has anyone dealt with this company.



We have hosted one of our sites with Iserver.net which is a sister company of Verio. They use the same data centers and provide the same services.

I think they try to keep bandwidth within limits by limiting your cpu and memory usage. Your webserver will slow down after a certain number of concurrent sessions.

Also they charge very much for additional services like disk space ($50 for 100megs)

but in general they are very reliable and their customer support is excellent

regards,
marton

Ok...

I do feel that this VPS thingy from Verio differs from reseller to reseller. I know of someone who is very happy with his hosting. The reseller involved is www.servercentral.net. The pricing is also much cheaper than Verio.

VPS do offers unlimited bandwidth BUT they limit you on the Apache process you could have. The way the unlimited bandwidth virtual servers work is the servers are process limited. For the 400MB account, you get 20 apache processes and 64 total processes. For the 800MB, i forgot.

One hosted site with servercentral is www.animewallpapers.com who utilises 200GB a month ( the last time i heard ). You could check the speed and ping from your side.

They also have that 800MB package but it is not listed on the site. It is something like $235.

I was considering the package and talked to a sales guy. I said "How much is unlimited really?" He said "10 Gigs" and I said "No thanks."

Pretty much every place to says unlimited will tell you the real limit if you ask. It's not unlimited but rather - if you use more than 10 gigs we won't charge you extra but we will tell you to upgrade or you'll be kicked off.