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| Posted by Daniel_IT, 03-05-2013, 02:20 AM |
| hi guys
please let me know whats the exact meaning of OverSelling?
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| Posted by target, 03-05-2013, 03:35 AM |
| When you sell things you don't have in the hope not all clients will use what you offer.
A lot of hosters sell unlimied or 10 GB space and 100 GB traffic for a few dollars and they assume the average client will use 100 MB space and 10 GB traffic.
If all clients will use more they will suspend the clients who use to much with a TOS excuse or servers will get slow because they are overselling.
All hosters oversell, also the hosters who claim they don't. Avoid unlimited diskspace and datatraffic for 1 dollar offers and offers that are to good to be true (100 GB space and 1000 GB traffic) and you will never get in trouble.
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| Posted by BCata, 03-05-2013, 03:51 AM |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling
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| Posted by DWS2006, 03-05-2013, 09:19 AM |
| In the context of reseller hosting, if the provider is offering a package with overselling enabled, that tells you how resource usage is calculated. With overselling enabled resource usage will be calculated based on the space/bandwidth your accounts have actually used. Without overselling disk usage will be based on the space/bandwidth that has been allocated to your accounts.
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| Posted by domaincart, 03-05-2013, 01:20 PM |
| Reliable reseller hosting providers may do overselling but don't allow overselling. Or they don't overselling but allow overselling. But If they do overselling and allow overselling when this may cause problems. Note that!
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| Posted by kpmedia, 03-05-2013, 01:25 PM |
| Overselling is simple resource management. This is fine.
It's not the same as overloading. This is not fine.
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| Posted by HostUS - Alexander, 03-05-2013, 02:16 PM |
| 1 (10 character)
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| Posted by PremiumHost, 03-05-2013, 10:31 PM |
| The most important thing is choose a realistic reseller plan with reasonable disk space / bandwidth / monthly fee.
A server prices around $200/month so how much a reseller package should cost to run sustainable business.
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| Posted by SSD-Greg, 03-06-2013, 02:16 PM |
| Lets put it like this overselling is reselling resources that you do not have causing the server to be overloaded meaning it will start to lag and run very rough.
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| Posted by WebHostDog, 03-07-2013, 04:35 PM |
| It is one thing to oversell HDD space and traffic and other to oversell RAM and CPU an provide sluggish hosting service. So yes there are two terms : overselling (not bad or not that bad and overloading (bad).
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| Posted by HostXNow_Chris, 03-07-2013, 04:53 PM |
| Was about to say the same thing but kp beat me to it. +1
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| Posted by Afterburst-Jack, 03-07-2013, 06:41 PM |
| Another analogy would be banking. When a bank loans out money, they will no longer have all the money that was stored from their client's accounts.
If everyone withdrew from the bank at once, they wouldn't be able to pay everyone. Same as if everyone used 100% of their resources on an oversold system, the host would run out of resources.
Of course, the chances of both situations happening are very low: which is why overselling allows you to improve efficiency when you keep control of it; resulting in lower costs for customers.
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| Posted by bune, 03-11-2013, 05:00 PM |
| Overselling reduces quality of hosting so dont look for overselling hosting
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| Posted by techjr, 03-11-2013, 05:12 PM |
| I'd say the word you are looking for is overloading.
Overselling stops you from paying $40/m on hosting
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