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I’m gunna go over the “layman’s term” definition of Overselling in todays market, and how actually, when you do think about it, it can be possible.

The current definition of overselling, as the way people these day’s see it, is a company (host) that provides entirely too much space, and other features, for an unbelievably low price. To name a few that come to mind, you have HostGator, LunarPages, and DreamHost. These are all great examples of the “overselling” industry.

They’ve taken the cheap approach really, and the way they see it is, the bigger the numbers they offer, for the lower the price = more business. To put this in math terms, you could see it as “S / P = $$$”. The only bad thing, if you could consider it that way, is that, well, it may not be overselling anymore!

Now, I bet by now, you’re wondering “What is this guy smoking?” Well..that’s for me to kno(I’m not smoking anything, I’m quite serious actually). In this day and age, the cost of technology and bandwidth has been reduced greatly. You can easily have a server at the datacenter, just one server, that has over 1TB of storage to that machine itself. These big companies like HostGator and the others have the money to invest, that they can own hundreds, if not thousands of these machines. Put that together with a nice fiber mixture into your datacenter, and you have the building grounds of a well formed overselling host.

We’re making the move from the “Hosting Industry” to the “Overselling Industry” and the thing is, we don’t even realize it anymore. It’s become a part of our life, the little guys like myself, competing against the big guys, trying to do everything we can just to get our foot in the door, to hopefully either one day own our own properly formed Company, with big corporate offices, or keeping our hopes in being bought out by one of those big guys.

Like I was saying above, before I got kinda sidetracked there, it’s becoming quite cost efficient to run one of these overselling hosts. Most hosting offers you see these days offer you the most they can, and they just put in one of those “safety clause’s” into they’re Terms of Service, saying like you can only use 50k inodes (50,000 files) on that account, or that your account can only use such percentage of the processor power. This safeguard isn’t there to harm you, it’s there to protect them.

Oversold hosts are commonly targeted by warez sites, and spammers, because of the large amount of resources that they offer. People like this think that because it’s a big company, that they aren’t going to get caught sending out 100k emails, or hosting 20gb of files. Companies like these also have the kind of support staff that they need to constantly be on top of things.

I sure have drifted off track alot in this post, haven’t I? Well, even though it’s drifted, it all relates to the same subject. Overselling. Is it the way of the future, or still a lame business tactic? You decide

Tags: definition, dreamhost, hostgator, lunarpages, overselling

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