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In your opinion, is overselling bad? Do you do it? Why or why not?
When I learned the business, I was working for a small/local Dial-Up ISP. We had about 1 phone line for every 4 users. This was less than the industry standard of 5, and much less than the AOL standard of I think 10-20 (10 users per 1 phone line).
We technically over-sold, but we were very conscious of our users, when our peak times were, and whenever we hit a resource limit that started to impact them we upgraded our infrastructure to accommodate the growth.
I personally have no issue with "overselling" when it is used responsibly and ethicly, and as such, when I make my offerings to users I price things out accordingly and use it to the advantage of my users and my business.
Pro's for Users:
Pro's for me/business:
Note: When I setup my VPS accounts I set aside an amount of "shared" resources for memory and cpu. This is on top of the CPU and RAM that is dedicated to each client, so that they have first come/first serve best chance access to thees extra resources. While I am not overselling all the resources, some are not dedicated and oversold. I do not over-sell storage/space. Space/drives are CHEAP.
When I learned the business, I was working for a small/local Dial-Up ISP. We had about 1 phone line for every 4 users. This was less than the industry standard of 5, and much less than the AOL standard of I think 10-20 (10 users per 1 phone line).
We technically over-sold, but we were very conscious of our users, when our peak times were, and whenever we hit a resource limit that started to impact them we upgraded our infrastructure to accommodate the growth.
I personally have no issue with "overselling" when it is used responsibly and ethicly, and as such, when I make my offerings to users I price things out accordingly and use it to the advantage of my users and my business.
Pro's for Users:
- Reduced Costs
- if VPS: Access to both Dedicated and Shared Resources
Pro's for me/business:
- reduced costs
- expanded availability of offerings
Note: When I setup my VPS accounts I set aside an amount of "shared" resources for memory and cpu. This is on top of the CPU and RAM that is dedicated to each client, so that they have first come/first serve best chance access to thees extra resources. While I am not overselling all the resources, some are not dedicated and oversold. I do not over-sell storage/space. Space/drives are CHEAP.