HostingKing
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Whether you are a hosting provider or a hosting customer, do you believe that overselling is OK, or do you try to avoid it?
Overselling is essentially when more accounts are sold on a server than could theoretically be accounted for if all of the resources allotted to each account were provided. So, if you offer accounts of 10GB space and 100GB bandwidth, but only have an 80GB HD, overselling is if you offered any more than 8 accounts. It is common practice to offer more than this, so that accounts could not all use all of their allotted resources.
I think that moderated overselling is OK, and even a good idea to increase margins. But if done too much, then the server will be slow, and even unstable. Yet if overselling is not done at all, then prices may be prohibitively high. It is a balance.
Overselling is essentially when more accounts are sold on a server than could theoretically be accounted for if all of the resources allotted to each account were provided. So, if you offer accounts of 10GB space and 100GB bandwidth, but only have an 80GB HD, overselling is if you offered any more than 8 accounts. It is common practice to offer more than this, so that accounts could not all use all of their allotted resources.
I think that moderated overselling is OK, and even a good idea to increase margins. But if done too much, then the server will be slow, and even unstable. Yet if overselling is not done at all, then prices may be prohibitively high. It is a balance.