Overselling isn't evil, lying about it is

112 days, but this still gets me.

That's the thing though. I don't think "it's in the ToS" counts as transparency. Hostinger at least puts numbers in the product description, which is more than most. But the average person isn't going to parse "up to 80 accounts per core" into "my site will crawl during Black Friday."

This is the broken part. 847MB and 100% is just a monitoring bug, but it shows how little these dashboards mean. I had a KnownHost VPS once that reported 0% CPU for six hours while a runaway backup was pinning the core. The abstraction layer becomes the lie.

I still think readerkrakw's density metric idea is the only honest path. Let me see "this node: 400/512 accounts" like a server queue. Then I can decide if three quid a month is worth rolling those dice.

Did anyone ever actually try publishing live density? Even a beta?

115 days, but this still stings

I used to work support at a place that did the opposite — buried the density in a PDF linked from a TOS sub-page. We tracked it. Zero clicks in six months for a node running 120:1

The 847MB thing is worse though. That's not even a disclosure problem, it's the monitoring layer lying to itself. If your balloon driver or whatever reports "100% available" while the kernel is already chewing through swap, your automation thinks the node is healthy

Has anyone actually seen a provider publish live density numbers? Not "up to X", but "this node: 47 tenants, 23GB committed, 64GB physical"

126 days but this one still stings

This is the real trick though

They put it in 6pt grey on page 9 of the terms and call it transparency

Meanwhile the banner still screams DEDICATED RESOURCES in green

At least RackNerd's oom-killer is honest in its own way

847MB tells you everything their panel won't

155 days but this still gets me

There's the rub isn't it. Hostinger at least puts the weasel words in the open. Most bury them in a 14kb TOS or just lie outright.

I had a Vultr "guaranteed 2GB" plan that couldn't even boot a stock Debian installer without swapping. Their density metric? "Enterprise-grade hardware." That's not transparency that's just noise

The 847MB thing is grim though. That's not even creative overselling it's just... wrong