Suggested bandwidth?

[dcorwin]

Just wondering what people are using for their customers' alotted allowed bandwidth these days? It fills up pretty quick since it physically takes up the amount you set in your packages. As in, if you alot 1gig a month and the customer's only using 1.5MB a month, that 1gig is still gone from your account, right?

Would be nice if that extra bandwidth could be dynamically distributed. Dont' some companies offer this?

[GatorBrent]

At the very least we say to give 1,000mb a month.

[bbrx]

I think dcorwin's question relates to "overselling" bandwidth.

As in, if you alot 1gig a month and the customer's only using 1.5MB a month, that 1gig is still gone from your account, right?

Say his customers are only using (on average) 150MB of bandwidth per month each, and he has allocated them 1 GB bandwidth each per month.

He wants to know if he can "oversell" his reseller account. For example, sell 200 accounts with 1GB bandwidth each from a reseller account having a 50GB bandwidth limit.

[dcorwin]

Well, you're both right. I just wanted to open up the topic to learn and discuss what others are doing in the business.

I can see that overselling could be a problem if everyone's sites suddenly become popular on the same day. Rare I'm sure, but possible...

[toddmedia]

Originally Posted by dcorwin

Well, you're both right.

Are they? My question is in creating accounts ....

If your hostgator account has 100 gigs of bandwidth allowed (for example), and you create 100 domains, allocating 1 gig each. Will cPanel not let you create another domain ... even though actual bandwith "used" is only 2 gigs, for example ?

Edward

[angeleyz]

The answer is -- No, you cannot oversell.

The reason?

Cpanel limits you to the space and bandwidth you are assigned. If you have 50gb of bandwidth, you can create 50 accounts w/ 1gb bandwidth -- but no more, regardless of what your clients are actually using. You can set up different packages using different alotments of space and bandwidth, but you can never sell more than what you are paying for.