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Originally Posted by Tyrik Trent
They are not saying unlimited space, unlimited bandwith and for free, then how can you say they are overselling and so bad.
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Tyrik
Things dont have to be "unlimited" or "Free" to be oversold. Server hard drive space is not too different from the same hard drive space you have inside your home computer in terms of how space is calculated and provided.
So if you compare what is available in the hard drive market today, then work out how many hard drives it would take to provide 1 customer, then multiply that by the number of customers per-server, you will see that its just not possible in "typical rack mount servers"
It is possible if using Network attached storage, but again the same principle applies, how many disk's are required to store all the info against what the company are charging for it, even just for 1 customer paying $10 a month for the equivalent of 4x500GB hard drives, how long would it take before they made any profit? They dont because its being over sold.
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Originally Posted by samducker
yes they are overselling it is not possible to offer 2000 GB Space, 9000 GB Bandwidth for $10 a month of real space and hd space.
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Sam, dont you just love seeing the extreme end of the overselling market? Almost make me laugh when I see some companies blatantly trying to take customers for a ride on the assumption the customer wont have a clue what they are buying.
Its quite shameful actually, but funny none-the-less.