It has been fun the past few days watching the debate on the Web Hosting Show about fxts.net and a segment I did talking about their “promise” to give their clients 10 terabyes of disk space. Well, I give Daniel - the guy in charge over there a lot of credit because he has defended himself and his action.
Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting) had held the fire to his feet though without going over the line. Here are just a few examples of the discussion that has been had.
Daniel (from fxts.net)
Actually, fxts.net is not a fraud. We had contracted with JaguarPC to offer our service, which was a big mistake. JaguarPC was not a good partner with which to try to do something like this.
Today, we just relaunched our $1 hosting service, with much smaller specs. We plan to increase the specs back to 10 Terabytes each of bandwidth and disk space once we finish building our server cluster. We have moved to HostGator, having already purchased one server with them.
What started on a reseller account at JaguarPC grew too fast for JaguarPC to want to handle (we tried numerous times to upgrade to a clustered server solution at JaguarPC, and they basically told us to go screw ourselves as they were too lazy to help us upgrade). This, combined with a major DDoS attack, forced our service down for about five days. We spent this time moving to our new server at HostGator and reconfiguring the service. We have already begun to transfer old user accounts, and have already refunded most of the users who had accounts on the old server.
Again, after our cluster is fully up and running, the 10 Terabyte plan will be back.
Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting)
That’s pretty amusing to say the least… Per the comment from Daniel, somehow HostGator is going to allow you to offer such a plan under a reseller account? I’m not trying to be rude, but I don’t know any hosting company that is going to allow you to host 10TB worth of anything for $1. The cheapest I’ve seen a provider go on even 1TB is around $150/mo and that was because they are actually setup in a cluster for Backup space with approx. 200TB.
However, I’m really glad someone is going out there and trying to take full advantage of the “promised” resources provided under their oversold hosting accounts. Maybe this will inspire the majority of hosting companies out there *NOT* to oversell, or at least make it impossible to do what fxts.net is doing with their reseller plans. While I feel bad for JaguarPC and HostGator having to deal with your “requirements”, I don’t believe in overselling hosting and wish them the best of luck dealing with you as a customer.
Check out the entire conversation here.
