A lot of users won't use a majority of their permitted bandwidth, disk quotas, e-mail accounts, etc. Also, a good amount of these users wouldn't know how to tell if they are really getting their paid for rates anyway. I'm not in the web-hosting industry, but I would assume there are numbers they commonly use to say what percentage of what resources are used, on average, by their customers.

It applies to ISP's as well... It is usually not a bad idea to ask about their subscriber ratio. Compare them and use it as a metric in your deciding factor.

-Russ

On 6/19/06, hanasaki hanasaki@hanaden.com wrote:

webhosting companies vs colo and bandwidth/transfer volume

After looking at the high cost of bandwidth and monthly transfer volume I have got to know... How do the hosting providers provide so much monthly transfer (400gig+ / month) for accounts that are under $10/mo?

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