Originally Posted by Artashes

While on the hunt for an entry VPS solution for one of the external projects, I came across a very interesting observation that was shared with me today: VPS is apparently being oversold.

That struck me as surprising. While I can understand how and why some would oversell shared reseller packages, but how can a company oversell VPS? In other words, if there is a total of 1000 GB bandwidth on a dedicated box, having even 5 VPS customers with 250 GB limitation on that box (just 1 client more) - that can come up to a quite an error margin... 25%.

Isn't that a little more edgy to take a risk with?