On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:58:04PM -0500, natecars at real-time.com wrote: > Sure looks like it's to be true - unlimited bandwidth for $25/mo?! They > must be trusting you're not going to use much! > > Also looks (according to a traceroute) like the box hosting > www.hostingminnesota.com is in Texas somewhere.. odd. > > Best bet is to try 'em out and see what happens. Oh, it's definitely too good to be true. First of all, you're paying someone who is reselling someone else's services (propagation.net), propagation.net's policies: (http://www.hostingsupport.com/manual/terms.html) ---- Abuse of Unlimited Traffic and/or Unlimited Storage Our customers are privileged to be offered unlimited traffic and/or unlimited storage for their web sites. The intention is to provide a large space to serve web documents, not an offsite storage area for electronic files. All (90%) of your web pages (html) must be 'linked' with files (.GIF, .JPEG, etc.) stored on our server. Web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the discretion of our management. Any customer who violates our Policies in abusing either space/site transfer will be notified and given 2 days to remedy the problem. If the problem is not resolved within the alloted 2 day period, the client will be billed for the overages. To maintain the integrity of our service the following limitations apply: Sites with Banners, graphics or cgi scripts running from their domain used on other domains. Sites with picture galleries (This is any site where 50% of the files transferred is graphics) Sites offering download files or archives. (This is any site where 50% or more of there monthly traffic is from file downloads) Sites using more than 30% of system resources ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ For those that do not qualify for the unlimited service, traffic will go unmonitored until you reach 8GB per month. Thereafter, normal data transfer cost of $20.00/1GB/month will be billed to your account. We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision ---- IE: 'You must bend over, you must do as we say, and you have an 8GB per month until we start ****** you for $20/GB, oh yeah, it's entirely up to us as to what qualifies you for this.' It's unlimited until you hit the limit, then they charge you more. Their pricing sucks, their policies suck, and they're most definitely not in Minnesota. > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list