Ray Booysen wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008 1:56 PM, Lambertus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Jeremy Adams wrote: > > Do they really offer 1.5TB of storage and 15TB of transfer a > month for > > $6.95? > > > Aparently so. There are other companies in the US providing similar > services. I guess they rely on the fact that most users will never > really use so much space and bandwidth. > > Then there is also the 'catchall' clause where you are only allowed to > use an hour (or so) CPU time a day. Your site is move to another server > when you go over the limit and will be closely monitored. If that > happens often you can/will be removed from their hosting. > > Hey Jeremey > > Do you have a link for this clause? > Well, I looked it up for the one such hoster I've been looking at before: Dreamhost. They used to have a 'hard' CPU policy but have changed that since.
Hoster: http://www.dreamhost.com Blog about CPU restrictions: http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/06/01/cpu-minute-restrictions-removed/ So I was a bit too harsh in my last paragraph, but it appears from the comments that having a popular WordPress blog is enough to classify you as a heavy user... The first paragraph remains though, hosters like Dreamhost oversell their bandwidth and diskspace. Looking at Hostmonter however gives a different picture: They seem to have a more hard CPU usage limit where they even shutdown a site sometimes: http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=361 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
