On 4/25/08, Steven Alligood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bluehost has a large number of customers that are getting exactly what is > advertised. Customers are never let go for using bandwidth or drive space, > although sometimes they have to be moved to other servers to accommodate > them. What customers are let go for is causing problems for other > customers, which often results from CPU pounding or constant heavy drive > I/O, and mirroring large active repos does both of those. > > Ok so I've generalized using Bluehost as an example here but there are many other hosting companies doing essentially the same thing (don't get me started on call queues, either). I don't know how many accounts they have that are using close to those limits, but it would have to be a very small percentage of their base for BH to offer those plans and still make money. I don't fully buy the cpu and disk i/o argument but since I don't know how BH runs those systems I will take your word for it.
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