09-11-2003, 07:12 PM
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Unlimited Hosting Provider! NickRac, where are you?
Just spotted these guys advertising those "unlimited hard drives" again... this time for just $4.95 a month!!!!!!!!1 
Here's their usage agreement. It says "If customer abuses the unmetered disk space allowance by using disk space for other purposes not associated directly with the web site, HotSpot, at it's [sic] sole discretion, may assess additional charges, discontinue service, terminate this agreement, or delete the web hosting customer's content."
Interesting, eh? They have the right to delete your content if you use too much of that "unlimited" disk space?
Anyway, I thought NickRac or someone might want to check these guys out... I know how you all love these unlimited hosts... 
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09-11-2003, 07:21 PM
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Sounds like someone is asking for 67gb of important documents. 
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09-11-2003, 07:55 PM
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lol..
Prehaps their unlimited Hard Disk is bigger then the last 
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09-11-2003, 07:56 PM
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$4.95 is a larger investment than the $.99 last time. We might need a group effort.
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09-11-2003, 07:57 PM
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OK.. everyone pays 5 cents(Group account) and we all have space for all the important documents
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09-11-2003, 07:59 PM
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If customer abuses the unmetered bandwidth allowance by using bandwidth for other purposes not associated directly with the web site, HotSpot, at it's sole discretion, may asses additional charges of $20 per 1GB a month,
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Wow.. thats a little high 
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09-11-2003, 08:09 PM
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Heh, #wht to the rescue...let's roll, boys!
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09-11-2003, 08:17 PM
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This site's TOS is much more extreme. I do'nt think we could pull it.
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09-11-2003, 09:15 PM
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haha, I am here! We need to get Matt in on this too
edited for matt - he does keyword searches every like 5 seconds so he will surely get to this post now
Last edited by NickRac; 09-12-2003 at 02:40 PM.
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09-11-2003, 10:05 PM
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Oh man, please remove my company name from that post - you scared my keyword search 
I will help if you edit the above 
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09-11-2003, 10:09 PM
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09-12-2003, 12:09 AM
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How do we make the 67GB Important documents again? 
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09-12-2003, 12:46 AM
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Hm... I got some 'important private documents'... We surely need a group effort here LOL
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09-12-2003, 12:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by xie
This site's TOS is much more extreme. I do'nt think we could pull it.
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There's absolutely no legal binding for the charges. Since they offer "Unlimited" then limit it in the TOS, by all accounts that's false advertising which is illegal in the US...
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09-12-2003, 01:00 AM
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Hm... they said if we store some unrelated files than the account will be closed/we will be charged for more space. So If it's correlated with the site, It's OK.
Why don't we make the second WHT there with no pruning LOL
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