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01-16-2006, 09:15 PM #76Disabled
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01-16-2006, 09:17 PM #77Newbie
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The cell phone companies do the same thing.
If you go over your minutes, they will NEVER send you a reminder, they will let you go over the minutes at 40 cents per minute, then send you the bill. You can log in to your cell phone account and track your minutes though, just like hosting companies.
Now if you are past due on paying your cell phone bill, they will send you text messages once a day for 5 days alerting you to pay your bill or your account will be suspended. I like this!
How come they also do not send you an alert that you are reaching your monthly minutes useage? They do it for a reason, to make $$$$ and stick it to you!
If you are uploading such huge files and using such high bandwidth, this is really a hard lesson to learn and would make some people cry - especially when you purchase the $4 web hosting plan. The cheapest plan on planet earth! This kind of plan is for a 1-5 page website or less.Robert W Hendrix - Creative Vision Studio, LLC.
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01-16-2006, 09:18 PM #78Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally Posted by f9-AlexAll My Data » From small shared web hosting accounts to powerful dedicated servers.
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01-16-2006, 09:20 PM #79Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by Yahooer0
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01-16-2006, 09:22 PM #80Disabled
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Originally Posted by creative_vision
But it's more diffcult to know how many people are downloding or hotlinking your files on the server. Especially Godaddy's Stats system is weak enough compare to Awstats or Webalizer.0
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01-16-2006, 09:23 PM #81New Member
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That is unfortunate...I have always had success with GoDaddy. If that is there TOS you may be SOL.
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01-16-2006, 09:24 PM #82Newbie
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When it comes to suing a company or taking them to court, good luck!
You will never win suing a company for $800. Even if you win, it will cost you more money to sue a company than what you can win. And if you do win, how are you going to collect the money? You will then have to sue to collect the money.
It costs $250 just to get an attorney to send a letter and get started. If you choose to go to court, be prepared to pay $2000-4000 just to pay their retainer fees.
SO, GOING TO COURT IS NOT AN OPTION FOR THE LITTLE GUY. If you are a company as big as godaddy .com who has $1 million to waste on a Super Bowl Ad of a babe showing her breasts, then they have all the money and resources to beat you in court easily.Robert W Hendrix - Creative Vision Studio, LLC.
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01-16-2006, 09:31 PM #83Newbie
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Originally Posted by Yahooer
I told the cell phone company that for $30 more, they could have automatically switched me to the next cell phone plan and saved me the $500 overage. And i would have been a happy customer for life. They don't care, shut up and pay the bill.
GoDaddy could have easily changed you to their $29 plan automatically. But they will never do that as they would lose money. Now if your bill is not paid on time, GoDaddy will send you an email every day until you pay or take your site down.
Is it fair, no way.
Should they start sending out email notification stating that the customer is at risk for additional charges, yes they should.
Will they do it, they never will!
Welcome to Corporate America!
One last note. Feel lucky about paying the additional $700. Customers like you just financed Bob Parson's $1 Million super bowl ad for this year. So go buy some popcorn, and a soda, sit back, and enjoy the super bowl ad that you helped finance.Robert W Hendrix - Creative Vision Studio, LLC.
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01-16-2006, 09:32 PM #84Disabled
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Originally Posted by creative_vision0
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01-16-2006, 09:32 PM #85Vice Cheese
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Originally Posted by Yahooer
The rule-of-thumb I always follow when using a shared server is to never upload a file which is more than 1mb by itself. Because if a sudden surge of users started downloading the files constantly, it will drain your bandwidth before you even know it, just like this time.
My recommendation is that you should get a $49 10mbps unmetered from HiVelocity or something. I know its more than $3.56 you pay godaddy, but its a hell of a lot less than $690.
Trust me, if you dont learn from this and get another shared host or keep uploading huge *** files on shared servers, you will pay again, literally.0
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01-16-2006, 09:37 PM #86Vice Cheese
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01-16-2006, 09:37 PM #87Newbie
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Originally Posted by Yahooer
My response regarding lawsuits was for all the people making that suggestion and was not directed to you.
This also makes me think twice about using my credit card to pay bills using their auto pay features. Everyone should start having companies like GoDaddy and cell phone companies to send you an invoice and pay by check.
Otherwise, they will charge your card for whatever amount without notice.Robert W Hendrix - Creative Vision Studio, LLC.
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01-16-2006, 09:39 PM #88Junior Guru
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Originally Posted by creative_vision0
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01-16-2006, 09:40 PM #89Newbie
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Originally Posted by Anantha Jambu
This will result in happy customers for life. Instead, their billing policies, although they may be right, and do take advantage of ignorant customers, do nothing but piss everyone off and fill all the online forums with anti-Godaddy posts that result in alot of bad publicity and lost sales.Robert W Hendrix - Creative Vision Studio, LLC.
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01-16-2006, 09:47 PM #90Disabled
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This topic bacame meanless to me. Cos I have to pay this fee soon or later, they will bill me automaticlly by the system. There is nothing I can't do to stop this payment.
The only thing I am expecting is get a part of refund from GoDaddy.
I am calm down now, thanks everybody again.
Today I am a hosting newbie, tomorrow I will be a knowledgeble man in hosting industry.0
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01-16-2006, 09:48 PM #91Norwegian polar bear hunter
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Originally Posted by Yahooer
But I’m live in Norway, and yes I have over $3000/mo as a student going to school, so I can not complain.
But of course, a $600 bill is some money to me also. So I understand that you are frustrated, but as many other WHT users say, when you upload so large files, you have to expect that you can overuse your BW.
That’s simple math, 10 downloads of a 300 MB file = 3 GB. 10 people are not much on a website per month. So since you are a student, I think you can do the math, and see that you are on thin ice claming that you was suppraised to see that you had used more then 250GB/mo
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01-16-2006, 10:20 PM #92Vice Cheese
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Originally Posted by Yahooer
I mean, godaddy sends me emails for as small as changing nameservers in my domain or any other small activity.
I do not see their bandwidth overage fees ANYWHERE on the website.
*And the obvious one is why arent they practicing their own policy and redirecting their customer until additional bandwidth is purchased.
The last point with the asterisk is what you have the most chances of getting all your money back. The very fact that godaddy did not redirect you until you bought the bandwidth.
Just out of curiosity, is there anyone else who has access to your account other than you?Email: info ///at/// honelive.com0
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01-16-2006, 10:51 PM #93Disabled
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Originally Posted by myhken
But this site is unimportant to me at all, otherwise I wouldn't go with this cheap host. If they did inform me, give me an alert, I can switch off this site in any minute, then I won't face this problem. Unfortunately, they didn't. I think they are laughing to have a woodenhead customer such like me. It means more woodenheads more US dollar to GoDaddy.0
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01-16-2006, 10:56 PM #94Web Hosting Evangelist
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Unfortunately, this is how it works ussually..
They expect the customer to monitor or excercise caution when using their site, so that they don't go over..
When they do, its big bucks for them.. thats how they make a profit, I suppose.
Its sad, but its how most companies work. Such as, when I applied to get a Dell Computer with the monthly payments, with my mother's information, who has great credit, they calculated something like 28% interest.. which was absurd.
I didn't go with Dell, but the moral of the story is..
Companies want money. Unfortunately, in alot of cases, if your not careful, they'll take alot from you.0
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01-17-2006, 12:22 PM #95Newbie
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It's unfortunate that such companies are in the nasty surprise business. The only upside is that unlike ten years ago, they now can't do it with the same kind of anonymity. But once you have the budget for that $1 million ad, word-of-mouth maybe isn't as important as getting as many new and unsuspecting customers as you can as fast as you can.
A company that grows beyond a human scale becomes this kind of indifferent machine.
And apropos of what I think of this, there is an exceedingly distracting "smiley" vomiting to my right as I try to write this. I think I should like to that smiley, before I, too, want to .
Enough is enough in both cases. Find a host who gives you more respect than this, even if you did really use all that bandwidth.
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01-17-2006, 01:22 PM #96Vice Cheese
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This is the problem we face these days. Once a company becomes BIG, they lose sight of the current customer and aim at prospective customers.
So sad...Email: info ///at/// honelive.com0
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01-17-2006, 02:34 PM #97Retired Moderator
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Seems the thread has run it's course.
Thread Closed.0