Good point, but I still think it's a little on the dishonest side. Because, while you're correct in that no one could possibly GET to the unlimited point, you're actually advertising something that you have no intention of allowing.
It's the same for an all you can eat buffet. It balances out in that some people eat a LOT, and some people only eat a small amount. But you can be sure that a restaurant manager would cut someone off were they to make trip after trip. andy -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DailyRazor hosting comments? Andy, you shouldnt worry about unlimited emails. You can make such an offer, knowing full well there is no such thing as "unlimited" in reality. For example, on my hosting service I offer "unlimited emails" too. I have a finite amount of space and bandwidth, like eveyrone else. But for the vast majority of the sites on my system they dont use anywhere even CLOSE to what they're allocated. For example if you have a hundred sites on a machine, most of them are doing nothing most of the time. They're small sites, with pretty low traffic. You can allocate them 100 email accounts each to start their site off allowing them more if they need them, but they will only ever use about 3 or 4. So with the hundred sites, with 10,000 email accounts allocated, but only 300 actually in use. If one of the sites wants lots of email accounts - unless they're trying to set up in competition to gmail, they can have thousands of email accounts and still not cause problems with space and bandwidth. It's the same with disk space and bandwidth - you can offer 'Unlimited disk space" if you like (commercially thats not such a brilliant idea) and since few sites use anywhere near their allocated space now, if one or two go over their allocation it makes little impact on the system as a whole. Now if you have users that have a pattern of using all or most of their allocated resources, none of this argument applies. But for my client base, (and i suspect DailyRazor too) i can allocate 10 times the resources I actually have available and still have no performance issues at all. There is nothing special about this. The telephone companies do the same thing - they know that they dont have to have enough switches in their phone exchanges to handle simultaneous calls from every subscriber. They have enough to handle the small percentage of subscribers who'll call at any one moment, plus a margin for emergencies or special days like Christmas day or Mothers day. We all know that "unlimited email accounts " isnt technically true. But you can have an account basis where in marketing terms "unlimited email accounts" is true because if they want more you give them more - as many as they want, knowing that even if they go well over what everyone else uses, they're still going to be inside the capacity available. On my system, you could have a thousand email accounts and i wouldn't be troubled. Just so long as i didnt have to field all the "how do i set up my Microsoft Outlook?" calls. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 1/31/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hadn't read into them yet. Their pricing model seems a > little...unrealistic. > Unlimited emails, bandwidth, etc. We all know that's not possible and > it's just a little irresponsible to advertise as such. > > So anyone have comments about DailyRazor? > > > andy > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268136 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
