<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 1:56 PM, Lambertus <<a href="mailto:osm@na1400.info">osm@na1400.info</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jeremy Adams wrote:<br>> Do they really offer 1.5TB of storage and 15TB of transfer a month for<br>> $6.95?<br>><br></div>Aparently so. There are other companies in the US providing similar<br>
services. I guess they rely on the fact that most users will never<br>really use so much space and bandwidth.<br><br>Then there is also the 'catchall' clause where you are only allowed to<br>use an hour (or so) CPU time a day. Your site is move to another server
<br>when you go over the limit and will be closely monitored. If that<br>happens often you can/will be removed from their hosting.</blockquote><div>Hey Jeremey<br><br>Do you have a link for this clause?<br><br><br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>Bottom line is: They can set such generous limits because there are only<br>very few applications that can really use
1.5 TB space and 15TB<br>bandwidth without crossing the daily CPU time limit. The very few that<br>do are a selling point to the majority that don't.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________
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