HostPC 6th Anniversary Promo - Double quotas for new accounts!

[iahk]

I haven't posted any hot deals for awhile now. But I just stumbled across something that is scandalously hot. I just signed up with HostPC. If I may digress a bit, they're super fast. My account was setup pretty much after I hit the place order button.

But the email I got from them was quite pleasant. They haven't started advertising it yet, but their 6th Anniversary promotion has started.

"Your account includes DOUBLE quotas from the packages listed on our home page - double bandwidth, double disk space and double the number of domains you can host.

...

We'll continue doubling accounts THROUGH November 28, 2004 - but because you've chosen HostPC - your quotas will stay the SAME for as long as you have your account - we never change them - as long as your account remains in good standing."

HostPC

 

[screw3d]

I'm also hosted at HostPC.. but sometimes I wonder if they are overselling themselves because it's so cheap..

 

[timswim78]

This plan will be smoking if the quotas get doubled. I have been putting my photos online, and the 200MB space quota that I have at ripplehost is quickly getten eaten up.

Budget Hosting

300MB disk space
3000MB data transfer/month
25 POP3/IMAP Mail Accounts
3 Add On Domains

$25 per Year

 

[AndyD2k]

So you have to sign up to get a notice about the quotas? See no mention on site.

 

[iamWolverine]

anyway to get in on this for current customers?

 

[iahk]

Originally posted by: AndyD2k
So you have to sign up to get a notice about the quotas? See no mention on site.

Yeah, the promotion has already started but they haven't started the advertising yet.

 

[McDealer]

Originally posted by: screw3d
I'm also hosted at HostPC.. but sometimes I wonder if they are overselling themselves because it's so cheap..

Anytime you're concerned about that, all you need to do is ask. I don't hide our server stats, including the number of domains on each server.

Each server is proportionately loaded so no more than 30% of the drive is allocated (most are around 11-15%) - no more bandwidth is sold than we have available on each server - and no more than 250 SHARED hosting accounts per server. Keep in mind, that 250 includes our fall frenzy accouns, $25 accounts, etc - so relatively small sites are included in that number. Our reseller servers are even lighter, to assure that after each reseller is loaded up, the server will still be under our quotas. We effectively manage servers so that each individual server makes a profit each and every month. We've remained in the black for the past 5 years.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: timswim78
This plan will be smoking if the quotas get doubled. I have been putting my photos online, and the 200MB space quota that I have at ripplehost is quickly getten eaten up.

Budget Hosting

300MB disk space
3000MB data transfer/month
25 POP3/IMAP Mail Accounts
3 Add On Domains

$25 per Year

so how many mysql databases?

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: zerocool1

Originally posted by: timswim78
This plan will be smoking if the quotas get doubled. I have been putting my photos online, and the 200MB space quota that I have at ripplehost is quickly getten eaten up.

Budget Hosting

300MB disk space
3000MB data transfer/month
25 POP3/IMAP Mail Accounts
3 Add On Domains

$25 per Year

so how many mysql databases?

according to their website all accounts have unlimited mySQL databases. What I want to know is there a chance to have more than 50 email accounts when doubled?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: McDealer

Originally posted by: screw3d
I'm also hosted at HostPC.. but sometimes I wonder if they are overselling themselves because it's so cheap..

Anytime you're concerned about that, all you need to do is ask. I don't hide our server stats, including the number of domains on each server.

Each server is proportionately loaded so no more than 30% of the drive is allocated (most are around 11-15%) - no more bandwidth is sold than we have available on each server - and no more than 250 SHARED hosting accounts per server. Keep in mind, that 250 includes our fall frenzy accouns, $25 accounts, etc - so relatively small sites are included in that number. Our reseller servers are even lighter, to assure that after each reseller is loaded up, the server will still be under our quotas. We effectively manage servers so that each individual server makes a profit each and every month. We've remained in the black for the past 5 years.

What you said still allows for overselling, many people will use less than 30% of their space, so basically you keep adding accounts till 30% of the space is used up and then start adding accounts on another server. This way you don't waste too many resources and there is plenty of room for people to use more space.

While it may sound like I'm going against you, I'm agreeing with what you do. Overselling is something that just about EVERY webhost will do for shared/reseller accounts.

Let's say you have 10GB of space and offer 1Gb accounts. You can sell 10. Let's say you sell all 10 and notice that only 1GB of space has been used. That's 10% :Q Now, you sell 10-20 more bringing it to 3GB, which is 30% of the space. You've just sold 30 accounts on one server. Unless these are old and very cheap servers, which they aren't, most people won't notice a difference at all. It's likely that it may not even take any longer to load the pages either.

All I wanted to say was that overselling almost ALWAYS occurs pretty much no matter who you go with because it's what makes sense. Now, if you want to pay 5 times the cost to be on a server without overselling, let any webhost know and if you're willing to pay that much, they'll arrange something for you

 

[ttown]

Just my $0.02 for people considering hostpc: I've been a happy customer for the last month and a half.

 

[McDealer]

I agree with you on overselling - 100%.

But, please allow me to paste a report from a server picked at random:

This server is a (new, Dell) P4, 2.4 with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB drive primary - notice the current usage - v - allocated amounts:

Setting Current Usage Allocated
Bandwidth (meg) 10026 908000
Disk Space (meg) 15988 48450 <-- only allocated 48GB off a 160 GB drive - using 15GB, this one's a bit higher than norm I guess.
# of Domains 181 274
Load Average 0.14, 0.17, 0.17

As you can see, on this server, we're not even overselling bandwidth (allocation is 120gb/mo)

This server is not even a current server - this is www15.hostpc.com - we're currently on www24. This one hasn't had a new site on it in months.This is just an indication of our server capabilities. Without looking, I'm sure there are a couple servers that bandwidth is oversold on - but there's plenty of that available at our datacenter (redundant Verio backbone connections).

You wont find any of our servers that HD space is oversold on - I don't believe in that - peoples sites WILL grow - and God knows I dont want to have to ask anyone to move if they dont have to. (Thats why we tested DirectAdmin and were comfortable knowing that it could handle what we put on it - we moved clients from Ensim to DirectAdmin - sure it was an unpopular decision - nobody likes to move, but we KNEW it was in their best interest. I don't think one of our customers regrets moving to this control panel. )

I would dare any other hosting company to post stats like that. I routinely have customers tell me that they're coming off servers that have MANY hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of sites on them from other companies. One popular host that a lot of people are moving from (previously a hot deal here at AT) I know for a fact have 800-1000 sites per server - THATS overselling.

Make an informed decision - get the facts, and if you're unsure about something, ask your prosepective hosting company. If they diddle around the truth, or they won't give you the facts, keep looking.

Joe

 

[alm99]

When does this sale go into effect for non hostpc customers?

 

[McDealer]

Go for it when you're ready... the quotas are already doubled and will be reflected when you get your welcome email. The heck with the "dates" ... lets start it now!

 

[drewstylz]

Originally posted by: timswim78
This plan will be smoking if the quotas get doubled. I have been putting my photos online, and the 200MB space quota that I have at ripplehost is quickly getten eaten up.

Budget Hosting

300MB disk space
3000MB data transfer/month
25 POP3/IMAP Mail Accounts
3 Add On Domains

$25 per Year

so just to be absolutely sure, we get:

600MB disk space
6000MB data transfer/month
50 POP3/IMAP Mail Accounts
6 Add On Domains

??

I've been with ripplehost and luckily for me, I haven't had any problems that I've read about so frequently but I sure could use extra space too

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: McDealer

Originally posted by: screw3d
I'm also hosted at HostPC.. but sometimes I wonder if they are overselling themselves because it's so cheap..

Anytime you're concerned about that, all you need to do is ask. I don't hide our server stats, including the number of domains on each server.

Each server is proportionately loaded so no more than 30% of the drive is allocated (most are around 11-15%) - no more bandwidth is sold than we have available on each server - and no more than 250 SHARED hosting accounts per server. Keep in mind, that 250 includes our fall frenzy accouns, $25 accounts, etc - so relatively small sites are included in that number. Our reseller servers are even lighter, to assure that after each reseller is loaded up, the server will still be under our quotas. We effectively manage servers so that each individual server makes a profit each and every month. We've remained in the black for the past 5 years.

Cool to know that Thanks for clearing that up. I'm one of your customers who hardly uses the allocated space or bandwidth

 

[garkman]

Best $25 I've ever spent...found one of the few hosting co's that actually know what they're doing!! Amazing...really.

 

[McDealer]

Thanks for the kind words!

 

[n3st0r]

i guess imma switch to hostpc very soon

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: garkman
Best $25 I've ever spent...found one of the few hosting co's that actually know what they're doing!! Amazing...really.

same

 

[anandfan]

I've been using HostPC for over a year. No complaints. Have helpful user forums.

 

[cyrax78]

Yup, another happy customer here. Excellent speed and exceptional customer service.

 

[PicPop]

:thumbsup:

 

[DavemanUT]

Hmmm.

I'm currently using another company for my (VERY SMALL) hosting. The only thing I use my webspace for is hosting pictures in my eBay auctions, but I'm constantly hitting the email server.

So here's my question, which is directed at McDealer, as it seems that you are an employee....

Since I switched to my current host, I've been missing some emails. I didn't know why until today, when the tech guy figured out the problem. I sell a lot of items on eBay, and accept PayPal as payment. When people go to the "ask seller a question" page in my auctions, or send me a payment via PayPal, the emails do not show up. The reason for this is that they are coming from ebay/PayPal, but they are setup so that a reply will go to the sender, not back to eBay/PayPal. My hosts email filter is detecting this as spam, and the messages are getting returned to the sender. From what I understand, there is nothing they can do about this. So, it looks like I'm going to be in the market for new hosting. Can you assure me 100% that I wouldn't have this problem with you? If so, we may be doing business.

Thanks!

D.C.

 

[OZEE]

hehe -- McDealer isn't an employee -- he's the owner!

Daveman, regarding your paypal/ebay question: HostPC has SpamAssassin available on the accounts. You can configure it however you want it per domain (not per user in the domain, though). I'm not familiar with how those emails are addressed, but if they're always from the same address (which I think the ebay ones are), you can simply "white-list" that address, so it never gets filtered whatever it contains. Also, worst case, you can custom-set your filter "trigger level" so high that it will be impossible for anything to ever get tagged as spam.

Finally, there are three settings for how you want SA to handle the detected spam: First, deliver it; Second, send it to a separate folder on the server for later review; Third, delete it. If you want it delivered, there are another set of three options for how to deliver it: First, send it exactly as received; Second, send it as an attachment; Third, send it as a text-only attachment. And you can also choose to have it tagged as spam (if you have it delivered) so you can write your own filtering in your email client.

I've been very happy with SA - so far it's 100% on my accounts. Well, some of my users might disagree because it's tagging as spam some of those stupid, stupid email chain-letters, but IMO those are spam anyway! I'm just tagging them and delivering them as text-only, so they still see all of their emails and can choose how to handle them on their own. (Delivering them as text-only neuters alot of the hijackers and viruses emails!!)

(p.s. --another very satisfied customer. 3 sites for over 2 years. And mine are hosted on www15 - the "example" he listed above!)