Have lunarpages increased their bandwidth from 100GB to 400GB in shuttle plan? if yes then great

yup, I was so glad when I got the e-mail. they also upgraded their space to 3gb from 1gb

With their direct competitors (such as ipowerweb, powweb etc.) having similar offers, it was only a matter of time before this would happen. I just hope they'll maintain the higher levels of quality, and in turn maintain their good reputation.

I think it's funny that people get excited about things like this. Has anyone even used the 1Gb of space and 100Gb of bandwidth they were offering before?

This is nothing more then a marketing ploy. I can almost guaruntee that 95% of their users never even came close to the old space and bandwidth limits.

This type of marketing is just a way of getting around the 'unlimited' plans hosts used to offer, now that users are being trained that 'unlimited' is bad.

your right, but you can hold them to the 3/400 deal, the unlimited has catches

your right, but you can hold them to the 3/400 deal

Unfortunately in shared hosting you can't really hold the host to the data transfer deal. They always have the server resources abuse policy on their side. Once you go over a certain limit, it is the CPU and memory usage abuse threshold that effectively limits the data transfer that you can use.

Originally Posted by ldcdc

Unfortunately in shared hosting you can't really hold the host to the data transfer deal. They always have the server resources abuse policy on their side. Once you go over a certain limit, it is the CPU and memory usage abuse threshold that effectively limits the data transfer that you can use.

This is true, 90%+ of hosts oversell on their servers

Server Load 0.78 (4 cpus)
Memory Used 13.4 %
Swap Used 0.19 %
Disk sda2 (/) 36 %
Disk sda1 (/boot) 11 %
Disk sda8 (/home) 13 %
Disk sda7 (/tmp) 4 %
Disk sda6 (/usr) 75 %
Disk sda5 (/var) 43 %

thats my server stats, doesnt look too bad to me

Originally Posted by Anacrusis

I think it's funny that people get excited about things like this. Has anyone even used the 1Gb of space and 100Gb of bandwidth they were offering before?

This is nothing more then a marketing ploy. I can almost guaruntee that 95% of their users never even came close to the old space and bandwidth limits.

This type of marketing is just a way of getting around the 'unlimited' plans hosts used to offer, now that users are being trained that 'unlimited' is bad.

i know what you mean, but who knows, some clients might be getting 2,000,000 hits monthly.....

Originally Posted by herbal_ali

i know what you mean, but who knows, some clients might be getting 2,000,000 hits monthly.....

Only 5% of the websites on the internet have more 2,000,000 hits. So again it doesn't matter much for a webhost if 5 out 100 accounts get that kind of traffic.

Originally Posted by Anacrusis

I think it's funny that people get excited about things like this. Has anyone even used the 1Gb of space and 100Gb of bandwidth they were offering before?

This is nothing more then a marketing ploy. I can almost guaruntee that 95% of their users never even came close to the old space and bandwidth limits.

This type of marketing is just a way of getting around the 'unlimited' plans hosts used to offer, now that users are being trained that 'unlimited' is bad.

It's true that most users don't use more than 50% of their allocation. However, it will be great news for me as I usually use up to 80-90% of my allocation. That's why I am always looking around budget basement reseller packages since my usage is high. Furthermore, hits and unique visitors are two completely different statistics to look at. Hits doesn't always mean a lot of visitors.

well a lot of companies are moving towards offering more bandwidth... i was actually amazed when a customer emailed me to say that netfirms is offering 1.5 TB of bandwidth and 40 Gb of space for less than $15 and asked why dont we do that as well...
I find it really diffcult to believe that a average customers will ever use that much of B/W and space.

I find it really diffcult to believe that a average customers will ever use that much of B/W and space.

Not even close to it.. We all know how hard it is to obtain website traffic anyway.

1one1 has also done such upgrade recently, 10GB space & 500GB bandwidth $4.95

Originally Posted by Duport

1one1 has also done such upgrade recently, 10GB space & 500GB bandwidth $4.95

Yes, these allotments seem to become the norm in the budget hosting are of the market. Really sad if you ask me.