Host Wars! The Battle of Space (disk space)
Just recently, I received an email from one of the twenty
hosting companies that I'm affiliated with and before I even
opened it I knew what it was going to say. Pretty much the same
thing that the last five emails from other hosting companies
have said. "Dear Affiliate, we're happy to announce that we've
included more disk space to our basic hosting plans which now
offer over 20,000 Mb (mega-bytes) of disk/storage space to your
customers." And the Hosting companies battle on!
Now don't get me wrong, from a marketing and advertising
viewpoint, offering my customer 20,000 Mb of disk space instead
of 5 or 10 thousand is something that just "sweetens the pot."
Why not have extra space? Sometimes more is better. But unless
you're the only person on an island with an internet connection
and a hosting account thats going to be used by a small third
world nation, or unless you're Ebay (TM), I don't see where the
average company, even with a website that has 100 or more pages
with many graphics, is even going to come close to using 20,000
Mb of disk/storage space per month.
My modestly small website wbwebhosts dot com has twelve pages
that get a total of around 200 page hits a day. Last time I
checked I was averaging 2 Mb of disk/storage usage per month.
Naturally, I'm sure that if everybody who was hosted with a
certain company was somehow able to use 20,000 Mb of disk each
month, the hosting company would run out of server space.
But thats OK though! Advertising all that storage space is a
"Hook" to lure people in. Nothing wrong with that. As I said
above it's better to have too much storage space then not
enough. But look for other things that the company offers they
may set them apart from other web hosting services. Is the
set-up and Domain free? Where are there servers located? C-panel
control (very easy control panel for beginners)? Price per
month? Transfer (monthly traffic allowed)?
Well the Host wars will continue! Maybe by this time next year
they'll be offering 30,000 Mb to attract new customers. To most
unsuspecting people this will seem like a great deal and will be
happy and feel lucky that they have found such a hosting
company. By offering more disk/storage space, the hosting
companies will lure more customers and affiliates, affiliates in
turn will gain more customers and the customers will be happy
with the excess of space. Oh well, as long as everybody is
happy.....