Frequently Asked Questions

Beware of plans that promise a certain (large) amount of data transfer for a certain fixed monthly price. Often, such plans include huge amounts of disk space as well. But you pay that price regardless of what you actually use.

If your hosting plan offers 10,000GB for $10/mo, that sounds like $0.001/GB. We must be crazy; our prices aren't anywhere close to that! But what if your site only transfers 8GB one month? ($1.25/GB.) Or 5GB? ($2.00/GB.) Or 1GB? ($10.00/GB.) Suddenly our prices seem like the good kind of crazy! Big bundle hosts make big money off of people who are paying for a lot of capacity that they didn't really use.

When you use one of these services, if you use too little, you wind up paying a lot for it. It's true, if you use too much you might get away with it. But you might get hit with overage charges, or you might find yourself terminated for violating some obscure resource limit well before you use up the bandwidth or disk space they promised you.

Big bundles represent a bet: you're betting you'll use a lot of service, the hosting company is betting you won't. As with casinos, the bundles are packaged to look as favorable and attractive as possible, so it seems like a sure thing.

First off, ask yourself if you want a hosting company that is betting against the success of your site. Isn't that fundamentally wrong?

Second, when you take that bet, you're doing it based on a few hours of one-time research. The hosting companies you're betting against take those bets for a living, all day every day. They have all the info, they hold all the cards, and they make a lot of money.

It is possible to beat the odds and get a great deal. Like a casino, they can afford to let a few people "win" because so many people only think they do. But it's a lot of work to beat the system, and it's a new game every month.

We encourage you to think about the price you want to pay in terms of what you really use, not in terms of what you might have used, but didn't, or what you may use someday. If you're in the category where you're paying a lot for stuff you aren't using, give our service a try. If you're in the category where you're costing your host a lot more money than you pay, then our service might not be the one for you. :-)

Our service is pretty barebones, and it is priced accordingly. Whether your site is big or small, our usage-based pricing ensures that you pay a price that's fair to you and fair to us; not one penny more, not one penny less. If your site becomes successful and uses more resources, we'll make more money. That gives us a vested interest in ensuring that your site runs as well as possible, all the time.

So... if you think someone else is offering you a better deal, remember to ask yourself... wanna bet?