Results 1 to 25 of 26
Thread: unlimited bandwith?
-
09-01-2002, 06:34 AM #1Newbie
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Location
- TORONTO
- Posts
- 14
unlimited bandwith?
my old host?
lol .. here is my old hosts page... have a laugh
enjoy boys
http://www.homenetweb.com
this is what i paid $20 a month for hassles hassles hassles
downtime downtime no supportchris <chrismccoy@chrismccoy.com>
-
09-01-2002, 06:46 AM #2Aspiring Evangelist
- Join Date
- Aug 2002
- Location
- Louisiana
- Posts
- 396
-
09-01-2002, 06:47 AM #3Dennis Johnson
- Join Date
- Jun 2001
- Location
- Kalamazoo
- Posts
- 33,412
I think we need an "Unlimited Forum" to place all these threads in.
There is no best host. There is only the host that's best for you.
-
09-01-2002, 06:54 AM #4Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Mar 2002
- Location
- Northern Ireland
- Posts
- 272
Oh another one! haha!
An Unlimited Forum may be a bit pointless.. so what about a sub forum... Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame!! hehe
-
09-01-2002, 07:39 AM #5Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Location
- UK
- Posts
- 3,098
Yea
-
09-01-2002, 07:53 AM #6Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jan 2002
- Location
- Luxembourg
- Posts
- 1,145
I hate unlimited bandwidth
-
09-01-2002, 07:54 AM #7Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jan 2002
- Location
- Luxembourg
- Posts
- 1,145
Hmm
http://www.homenetweb.com/contact/support/
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /contact/support/ on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.22 Server at www.homenetweb.com Port 80
-
09-01-2002, 07:58 AM #8New Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2002
- Posts
- 2
I hate Unlimited Bandwidth
-
09-01-2002, 08:17 AM #9Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Offering "unlimited" isn't a bad thing. We feel that over time, our users will average out. Some will need lots of megabytes for their site, and some won't. Some will get lots of web traffic and some won't. A good example of this is Simple Network Communications (simplenet.com), who was bought out by Yahoo! a year or so ago. They had been offering "unlimited" accounts since 1997-98 if I'm not mistaken. Of course they had many complaints from customers, such as myself. But all in all, they gave me a lot more than I paid for and that's what counts.
Fris.net has been nothing but trouble for us over the past month. After the owner of the site claimed he moved only 50GB per month of data, I accepted him for hosting at $20.00 per month, with the agreement that he's paying for 100GB of monthly transfer, and *NOT* unlimited, since it was an adult site and I knew I'd be in big trouble if I promised bandwidth I couldn't deliver at that price. After the first couple of weeks, his site was leeched and moved around 300GB of data in 5 days. After trying to write up anti-leeching scripts, I figured I'd just place an .htaccess in the "bad" directories with RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}.
Almost 2 months later, we find out he is now linked to TheHun, which receives around 300,000 hits per day. His site alone was receiving several hits per second and Apache didn't have enough children specified in httpd.conf to handle the newly acquired traffic. It started to hang. Several hours later, we figure out the problem and close his account. We're not billing him for the 273GB of data he has moved since his last billing cycle and only charged him for 67GB of overture in the beginning when his site was leeched. I know, that's not unlimited, but it's more than 50% of our current resources and caused a mountain of downtime for our more mature customers. We also recently learned that our connectivity provider doesn't allow Adult websites, and we would have been forced to cancel hosting of his site on that alone.
As for the website, the last webmaster we hired who had some credibility took quite a bit of money from us and ran. In the past I've done my own webmastering, but this is the first time I've hired somebody else for help and it's also the last. Our website isn't 100% because we're still searching for the work he supposedly did. We've already recommended all current customers who require support to call our office while we battle with webby webmasters.
All in all, a lesson learned.Richard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 08:36 AM #10Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Location
- Directadmin Core
- Posts
- 770
We also recently learned that our connectivity provider doesn't allow Adult websites
How could you NOT know that when you signed up with your provider??
his site was leeched and moved around 300GB of data in 5 dayshttp://www.hostpc.com
DirectAdmin servers for hosting, resellers and your dedicated needs.
Hosting, Resellers, Dedicated Managed and Unmanaged servers
Hosting since 11/98 - Specializing in DirectAdmin since 8/03
-
09-01-2002, 08:54 AM #11Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jun 2002
- Posts
- 1,210
Re: unlimited bandwith?
Originally posted by fris
my old host?
lol .. here is my old hosts page... have a laugh
enjoy boys
http://www.homenetweb.com
this is what i paid $20 a month for hassles hassles hassles
downtime downtime no supportProfessor of crime at St Andrews university.
-
09-01-2002, 09:00 AM #12Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Nov 2001
- Location
- Singapore
- Posts
- 769
Maybe if the hosting customers were better educated, they wouldn't purposely look for unlimited bandwidth, would they? Most of the hosting directories today still have the search option for 1) unlimited space and 2) unlimited hits
Kind of funny, now that you think about it
-
09-01-2002, 09:05 AM #13Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Apr 2002
- Location
- England, UK
- Posts
- 734
Am I missing something here, you are complaining about how much monthly transfer your customer is utilising but you offer unlimited Traffic Allowance, you might want to have a look at your plans http://www.homenetweb.com/services/
Originally posted by Richard Ward
Fris.net has been nothing but trouble for us over the past month.
-
09-01-2002, 11:44 AM #14WHT Addict
- Join Date
- Aug 2002
- Posts
- 170
Interesting Quote
I find one paragraph interesting on the site.
Monitoring every site we host would take an entire team of people who'd be better giving you technical support.
--
Walter Landman
Programmer
-
09-01-2002, 12:29 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Originally posted by imitech
Am I missing something here, you are complaining about how much monthly transfer your customer is utilising but you offer unlimited Traffic Allowance, you might want to have a look at your plans http://www.homenetweb.com/services/
What an excellent way to talk about you customer, reading the customers comments you have been nothing but trouble with downtime downtime and no supportRichard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 12:32 PM #16Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2001
- Posts
- 889
lol
at first i thought it said "You don't have permission to contact support on this server. "
-
09-01-2002, 12:33 PM #17Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Originally posted by hostpc.com
How could you NOT know that when you signed up with your provider??
Yeah, I hear that happens pretty frequently with adult sites.Richard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 12:40 PM #18Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Originally posted by avium
Maybe if the hosting customers were better educated, they wouldn't purposely look for unlimited bandwidth, would they? Most of the hosting directories today still have the search option for 1) unlimited space and 2) unlimited hits
Kind of funny, now that you think about itRichard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 12:47 PM #19Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Posts
- 3,734
Originally posted by Richard Ward
Everybody, unlimited or otherwise, has something to cover their asses. Ours is common sense. Would you continue to host a site that is paying you $20.00 US Dollars per month and moves in excess of 300GB per month? That's just under 1mbps. Two sites using that much bandwidth, and generating $40.00 per month in income would take more than a T1 (1.54) in bandwidth. Last time I checked, I couldn't get a T1 for under $650.00 per month. That means I'd be losing over $7,000.00 per year and I'd be ~20% oversold.
-
09-01-2002, 12:48 PM #20Newbie
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Location
- TORONTO
- Posts
- 14
unlimited
still no such thing as unlimited bandwith i had a nice ride while it lasted
i am going to continue submitted tgp galleries from subdomain.fris.net and sending traffic to www.fris.net to your server so enjoy the hits richardchris <chrismccoy@chrismccoy.com>
-
09-01-2002, 12:53 PM #21Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Re: unlimited
Originally posted by fris
still no such thing as unlimited bandwith i had a nice ride while it lasted
i am going to continue submitted tgp galleries from subdomain.fris.net and sending traffic to www.fris.net to your server so enjoy the hits richardRichard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 12:58 PM #22Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Nov 2000
- Location
- San Diego
- Posts
- 3,407
What an excellent way to talk about you customer, reading the customers comments you have been nothing but trouble with downtime downtime and no support
Sorry if you guys feel a customer is always right, but I don't. An a**hole looking for trouble with a host has no less the right of service refusal as an a**hole coming into a restaurant or clothing store.
i am going to continue submitted tgp galleries from subdomain.fris.net and sending traffic to www.fris.net to your server so enjoy the hits richard
Looks like someone offered something they can't really offer and some idiot signed up to cause trouble. How do you fix this? Stop offering unlimited and when you get punks, boot them off quick. Don't even play games with them.
-
09-01-2002, 01:27 PM #23Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Originally posted by UmBillyCord
His unlimited offer is BS, but his complaint about some customer being punks is just as valid. When we get a**holes, we boot them. We don't want the trash. They can bad mouth all they want. It is one less headache the staff needs to worry about.
Sorry if you guys feel a customer is always right, but I don't. An a**hole looking for trouble with a host has no less the right of service refusal as an a**hole coming into a restaurant or clothing store.
Sums it up.
Looks like someone offered something they can't really offer and some idiot signed up to cause trouble. How do you fix this? Stop offering unlimited and when you get punks, boot them off quick. Don't even play games with them.Richard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.
-
09-01-2002, 01:30 PM #24Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Posts
- 3,734
But how come you had to make that 100gb deal? Are the services not unlimited? Do they not 'balance out'? I don't see why he has to be limited to 100gb, when everyone else can get more bandwidth than 100gb for $20 a month. What was the reasoning behind limiting him to 100gb? Did he pay less than the unlimited customers because you limited him?
-
09-01-2002, 02:32 PM #25Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- Sep 2002
- Location
- perl -le '$_=`man perlfaq1`;print/"(j.*)"/'
- Posts
- 280
Originally posted by lightnin
But how come you had to make that 100gb deal? Are the services not unlimited? Do they not 'balance out'? I don't see why he has to be limited to 100gb, when everyone else can get more bandwidth than 100gb for $20 a month. What was the reasoning behind limiting him to 100gb? Did he pay less than the unlimited customers because you limited him?Richard Ward
1 NET LANE, LLC.
http://www.1NL.net
The low cost data center.