I do know that “everyone” oversells, and it’s how you manage it that counts. Just like airlines and any industry that has a lot of no-shows. I was mainly just trying to get the word out to people who don’t know. My missives are aimed at non-technicians. The guru programmers and developers already know they’re smarter than I am, or at least think they are, so there’s little point in my trying to school them.

That aside, who knows, someone might hire me sometime who uses your hosting, so I may see it again that way, too. Despite the problems I had, I can say with near certainty that your site admin stuff was not nearly as lame as Godummy’s, so you can rest assured of that.

And elsewhere the idea of cloud computing is intriguing and hot nowadays, although we’ve seen enough incidents to know that it’s promising but not a panacea.

First off, every web hosting company oversells, that is how shared hosting works. It is the same as a phone company or cell company, do you think that if everyone talked on their phone at the same time the network would stay up? It would not, but they know that will never happen. It is the same thing with hosting companies, we know what our clients on average use and we build systems that will work for our clients at a cost effective price.

That said that doesn’t mean all hosts do it right, every host has a balance between performance and profit. With Site5 our aim is performance, and the main reason is that most of our customers are willing to pay a little more for that performance and dependability. Plus 80% of our clients are programmers, designers, ruby on rails advocates, and exp webmasters who have more sites and usage than most.

If you need dedicated resources so that you are not sharing a system with other people you need a VPS or a dedicated server.

I’d be happy to answer any questions you have too, I’ve been in the industry for a long time and I know a lot of people get really upset about overselling and there are a lot of misunderstandings floating around,
Thanks, Ben
Site5 CEO

PS, I’m sorry to hear you had problems with us Dave, feel free too shoot me an email at Ben@Site5.com, I’d be happy to give you a free six months so you can see the difference. I’m one of the new owners who took over last year. I can’t imagine anyone ignoring a problem like that, but I wasn’t around back then.

For $22, IMHO there’s almost no way that this plan includes actual hosting, unless it’s hosting with their ads visible, which is obviously not desirable. You also don’t say whether it’s $22 per year, or per month, or ??? If it’s $22 per year, it’s almost certain that this is just a parked domain, not anything that’s useful for building a good site.

To paraphrase above, the cheapest route will not always get you what you want!

Check with Godaddy tech support to confirm this.