Hosts Over Selling
I felt that I should do a post as this situation is one we see every day of the week and s0 many people are caught out by it.
I am speaking of the “over selling” done by 50% of web hosts.
What is it ?
Overselling is where a host offers something but you will not infact ever manage to get that or anything near that. The most common oversell is data storage or bandwidth. If you look at bandwidth oversells you will see something like “10000 GB transfer on a 10mbps network”.
This looks as though you can transfer up to 10 mb every second for up to a total of 10000 GB each month. However what they will not tell you is that the 10 mb will be shared and you will only get full access to it at off peak times.
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