How to Detect Overselling

[l0calh0st]

Hello, this is my way of finding out if webhosts are overselling.

Firstly overselling does not mean too many clients on one server, it means too many domains (websites) hosted on one server.

Assume that the addon websites are popular.

Info 1:
Client A orders hosting from a company that provides a cheap hosting plackage for 2 bucks, that plan has NO limit of addom domains. This means the client can add as much domains as he/she wants.
If this member adds 50 domains/websites then the server will get slow. But who cares? Its an unlimited hosting plan. This company probably dont care about the speed as long as its up lol.

Client B orders hosting from a company that provides hosting at the same price but with limited addon domains. Example: max. 3 addons domains.
This means the client can add only 3 domains, so no big deal right?

Info 2:
Check the server load, if possible. Ask for the server specifications as you don't want to be hosted on an intel p4 box
Ask for an IP to ping. Just incase.
Ask for datacenter information and do some research about the datacenter.
Ask for a demo. (Not all companies provide this, I understand them. Lot's of people abuse it.)

Info 3:
Get in touch with a client of the company, get a personal review about the server speeds and performance.

This will be improved later, this is just my theory. Hope this helps clients.

Ignore hosts that provide cheap plans with unlimited addon domains.

Over and out.

l0calh0st Reviewed by l0calh0st on 11th Dec 2010. How to Detect Overselling Hello, this is my way of finding out if webhosts are overselling. Firstly overselling does not mean too many clients on one server, it means too many domains (websites) hosted on one server. Assume that the addon websites are popular. Info 1: Client A orders hosting from a company that provides a cheap hosting plackage for 2 bucks, that plan has NO limit of addom domains. This means the client can add as much domains as he/she wants. If this member adds 50 domains/websites then the Rating: 5

[QuickSand]

thanks
first
reading nao

[Pea]

I'd say another method would be to :

http://whois.domaintools.com

WHOIS check up an website currently hosted on their web servers. See when clicking server stats, it should say how many websites are hosted on the server. Anything above 50 i'd say is pretty much overselling, so if they do claim to be semi-dedicated, you should check it up with them.

[bxflow]

or the easy way just AVOID all new hosts on KWWH that provide cheap crap

[iMage]

good helpful post @ localhost. and i have to agree with FLOW most of the people here go for the cheapest hosting,which in most cases is a nu-host that does end up overselling

[sloddl]

1 website per 1 ip. else google detects it as duplicates... if the post titles are similar.

[vpsReady]

I'd say another method would be to :

http://whois.domaintools.com

WHOIS check up an website currently hosted on their web servers. See when clicking server stats, it should say how many websites are hosted on the server. Anything above 50 i'd say is pretty much overselling, so if they do claim to be semi-dedicated, you should check it up with them.

Are you saying any "shared" host with more than 50 domain per servers is overselling or only apply to "Semi-Dedicated"?

Its really depend on machine through but 50 domain per shared servers is quite low.

[m107]

I cant agree with you, it depends on many objects. Hosts like Bluehost got decent quality with unlimited addons!

[Sandino]

this post makes no sense.
if i have 1 million domains on a server, but only 2 of them have traffic how is that overselling?
How are the other 999,998 other domains even doing anything?

Allowing "unlimited" domains, is only a factor, not a major cause of overselling.

That's why you check user's resource usage (cpu/memory/bandwidth, etc).

[Putin]

lol, i agree with Sandino