opinions on overselling!!

ashish · (#1 (**permalink**))

Very recently a client asked us about overselling and that made me think a bit... so I just wanted to get your opinions on it….. Do you think overselling is justified? Still thinking about what to answer :(

ABBIE.ca · (#2 (**permalink**))

I don't see a problem with overselling as long as you have an honest intention to increase your service in the near future. It doesn't make good business sense to buy an additional server if you don't have the business for it.

I guess that the problem arises when you don't upgrade your services. If you have too much traffic in a single space, then you're going to run into problems, get a bad reputation and eventually, you won't have to worry about overselling :)

Trifolic · (#3 (**permalink**))

Personally I am not a big fan of people or companies that oversell. The ONLY time that I think overselling is ok is pretty much to sites that you will be managing. IE I have clients that I have made websites for, now they are local businesses, and I know for a FACT that they will never use more than 5GB of traffic or more than 100MB of space, I offer them 20GB bandwidth and 1GB of space so they feel that they are getting more for their money..

dasp · (#4 (**permalink**))

Hosts that oversell count on their customers not to use up all the resources that is promised. Risky but on average most customers do not use all their resources.

However, I do see a problem growing because of the popularity in marketing "multidomain" hosting now. That is, hosts now allow customers to point many domains to their site and host multiple sites.

So my question is, doesn't this set up a situation where a successful "reseller" customer will use up a lot of their alloted resources over time? Doesn't this mean that over time, the hosters services will be degraded the more successful their "reseller" customers become?

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