Comments on: Unlimited reseller hosting means no hidden costs and no artificial limits

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:07:37 +0000

I too would like to see a VPS offering.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:16:26 +0000

Gareth

We have a number of customer who are at that level already and our profit comes from all the add-on products on top of the hosting such as Search Engine Submision, Site Builder, domain names etc. When any site becomes that big a dedicated server tends to become a must for their own site as well.

Matt

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:34:33 +0000

I would love to see VPS offered. I have a few who have asked for more control over the box for running experiments (genuine experiments not stupid proxy services etc) and so being able to get a virtual server with root or super would be ideal for them.

It would also allow me to setup a few experimental services then when it looks like I have a bite from enough users, I can then consider switching to a dedicated server.

Although, I am still curious how H/I protects themselves not from bandwidth hogs, but from massive bulk hosting. If my marketing campaign proved successful enough that I get 10,000 sing ups for 10,000 unlimited accounts, how are H/I making a profit on that?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:25:25 +0000

I personally would love heart internet to offer a cheap dynamic cloud server (allowing upgrades and downgrades as well as custom specs) ive seen other hosting companies doing this and feel that cheaper dedicated servers and dynamic clouds would give new users a head start.

just an idea

By: neil

neil — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:41:10 +0000

Thanks for the reply, and it is good to see it being discussed this time around! i raised this on a number of occasions detailing it as a good part of your terms. a logical inclusion to protect the general users of your site.
if you are hitting 25gb of traffic, then processing is so high a dedi-box would be more advisable anyway!

Now offering a power reseller would be my next request that goes missed!!! pay as you go style on bandwidth, processing, memory, etc to allow for more high-end sites with the ease of reseller… i personally would immediately get my own dedicated box if it came as managed with the reseller ease interface.
After all i am a web site designer / developer – not a hardcore *nix operator

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:38:30 +0000

Neil,

Our terms refer specifically to sites that allow downloading of video and audio and alike which can potentially have a diverse effect on other customers if we don’t monitor them. It is also worth pointing out we don’t say it is a limit across the board but rather one we reserve the right to apply and that other uses remain unlimited…

“The Hosting Services allow you ‘unlimited’ server space for normal routine “non-file-distribution” web usage. For websites that allow downloading of video, audio or other files we reserve the right to impose a bandwidth limit of twenty-five (25) gigabytes (26,843,545,600 bytes) per calendar month. Non-file-distribution usage will remain unaffected by any limit imposed on downloading of video, audio or other files.”

Cheers

Matt

By: neil

neil — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:30:59 +0000

so once again another reseller post without mentioning your terms and conditions statement of 25gb???