Oversellers

[Oracle]

How many hosts do you think oversells these days? Everyone I look at seems to in some way oversell.

Have you ever had an experience with an overseller?
Do you oversell?

All opinions are welcome and loved!

[RackSolidHost]

I had an experience with an overseller a long time ago and it was bad. Overselling isn't a bad strategy as long as you know how to handle it however if it goes out of your hands things can go real bad.

[Oracle]

What host was it? How bad was it? Did the cripple your site/forum when they did this? Just wondering because it is a scary world for websites and forums out there!

Thanks before hand!

[RackSolidHost]

Lets just say its one of the big players. By the way I worked for another very big company and they handled overselling very well. It depends on the management but to be safe go for a provider that doesn't oversell.

[transilvania]

Lets just say its one of the big players. By the way I worked for another very big company and they handled overselling very well. It depends on the management but to be safe go for a provider that doesn't oversell.

Do you know the companies which don't oversell?

[~ServerPoint~]

Are you looking to collect the names of the web hosts or what?

[RackSolidHost]

Do you know the companies which don't oversell?

There are many. I can't provide you with a list as I run a hosting company myself. Maybe other members can help you.

[RH1]

Guess the question comes to what does it matter - Honestly overselling just means that they are expecting users to not use as much as they purchase. If they hit their limits then it is their responsibility to make appropriate adjustments. Most people never use what they purchase anyways - it is a marketing ploy to make you think ohh wow I can get all this for this price - but int he end never use close to what it is they purchased.

Im not saying I oversell, but I do allow my resellers to do so. Its still within their limits

[rumsfo]

For the newbie that is very difficult to realize which web hosting service provider oversell and which not. And that is the biigest problem for nowadays...

[fcolor]

It is simple to find an overseller Just go search and find out who claims to sell "unlimited disc space"...

[LDHosting]

It is simple to find an overseller Just go search and find out who claims to sell "unlimited disc space"...

That's the best possible example. I believe a host should be true to what they offer because if they aren't, things will go wrong sooner or later. I don't think it's worth risking your reputation as a hosting provider for.

[wasp]

Every host (thousands of them!) offering unlimited accounts is overseller. I myself try to avoid dealing with such hosts.

I know several companies which do not oversell, having enough resources to -provide hoest and quality webhosting. Like serverpoint.com for example. Dealing with honest companies is much more efficient than dealing with any oversellers, including giant providers like blue(host)monster and hostgator.

[Ian Cruz]

There are a lot of hosts out there that oversell, and many of them are successful. However it all depends on how you manage the whole thing. I personally wouldn't oversell myself.

[fivebean]

A lot of the larger hosts can handle overselling as they just move users accounts from server to server depending on the usage. I've seen that happen before, like others have said some can manage it well.

[Ahmad]

Non obersold host are offering reasonable accounts afor reasonable money. When the account is too large, and/or price is too little, or it is just unlimited - 98% it is an overseller.

Reasonable accounts is alike offered by serverpoint.com or even very simple hosting called dayanahost.com.