Re: phpwebhosting.com

From: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:56:11 +0000
Subject: Re: phpwebhosting.com
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"Sites hosting illegal files, porn, warez, file archives or other "download-only" sites are not accepted. " Pretty much every site I've ever done or gone to is primarily a 'download-only' site. Yahoo - I rarely upload anything to them. Google? I download tons of data from them. giga-commerce sites? Each page I go to I'm downloading 100k of graphics. I know what they mean, but they should definitely reword that. Egan wrote: > I was curious so I looked at their site. > > They shout "unlimited" as loud as they can, for every service you can > imagine. But their FAQ says: > > > Though we do not have any pre-set limits, you will not be allowed > > to and/or over five GB of bandwidth/month. > > "Yes there is NO limit. Read our lips. There is really NO limit. But > even though there is NO limit, you still can't have more than 5GB per > month for our competition killing price of $9.95" > > "Anyone should be able to understand that, right?" > > They also claim they will limit each server to a max of 125 users. So > let's do a little math ... > > 125 users at $10 per month, is a maximum revenue of $1,250 per month > per server. From that meager revenue, they are able to provide their > customers with an OC-12. I would like to meet the genius who is able > to pull that financial rabbit out of a hat! > > Egan >

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