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Mini-guide: Understanding overselling ratios in 'unlimited' deals

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rustyrack_grag

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Understanding overselling ratios in 'unlimited' deals

The mathematics of node density are not complex, but providers rarely disclose them. Here is what every buyer should calculate before signing any Terms of Service.

  • RAM per account = total server RAM ÷ account count
  • Burstable claims rely on statistical multiplexing: not all users peak simultaneously
  • CPU minutes are the hidden bottleneck; unlimited bandwidth does not imply unlimited compute

I obtained documentation from a former employee of a budget host operating under a different name. The figures are illustrative.

  • Server specification: 4GB RAM, 2 vCPU cores
  • Accounts provisioned: 400
  • Effective allocation per account: 10MB RAM if fully subscribed
  • Terms of Service section 14.3 permits termination for "resource abuse" without numerical threshold

The provider in question marketed "unlimited websites, unlimited databases, unlimited email." The overselling ratio exceeds 100:1 against any reasonable usage pattern.

Industry practice varies. Shared hosting typically tolerates 50:1 to 200:1. Beyond that, the model approaches lottery mechanics.

Has anyone else obtained internal figures? Documentation strengthens any subsequent complaint to regulatory authorities or class action counsel.

-RR

if it ain't broke, rust it
kasiaxus

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#2

I check this, this is 512MB RAM vps with 200 customer on node, I ask support they say "resource fair use" xd

I have friend who work for OVHcloud, he say typical is 300-400 account per 4GB, this is normal for them, they call this "density optimization" xd

B/v swap: I was very angry when I find this, I think I have good deal but I have garbage xd

POLISH SERVERS. LOUD FANS. GOOD PRICE.
ReykjavikFilch

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CDN skeptic

4 #3
rustyrack_grag said:
The overselling ratio exceeds 100:1

Whence came this plague of plenty, wherein the merchant promiseth oceans yet delivereth but a thimble, and wherefore doth the buyer, knowing full well the deceit inherent in such bargains, still flock to these digital bazaars like moths to a flame that flickereth with the false light of "unlimited," for methinks the answer lieth not in ignorance but in hope, that base and eternal hope that perhaps, perchance, this one host shall be different though all history and experience cry out against it, and ye olde server of my grandfather, which bore but a dozen sites upon its copper wires, didst perform with greater alacrity than these modern contraptions which groan beneath their four hundredfold burden?

NA

Member

#4
rustyrack_grag said:
Understanding overselling ratios in 'unlimited' deals The mathematics of node density are not complex, but providers rarely disclose them.

Mas 400 em 4GB tipo

Contabo? GreenCloudVPS?

Todos iguais

HeadRich

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128GB or nothing

#5

My home lab: 256GB DDR4, threadripper, nvme tiered storage. I run 40 VMs for fun.

400 accounts on 4GB? That is 10MB per customer. My router has more RAM. This is not hosting, this is performance art.

You want real deal? KnownHost dedicated, 64GB minimum, none of this shared noise. Budget people always pay twice: once in dollars, once in downtime.

petra

Member

#6

10MB per customer? That can't sustain a single PHP process.

Doug

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New Jersey

#7

Performance art lol

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
lucgone

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Le Baguette

#8

B/v swap made me switch hosts last year, never again

Vive la résistance... électrique

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