Over selling hosting?

[DanielEZPZ]

They do, and their answer would be yes.

However, they'd cancel your account before you reach anywhere near that limit. Probably for "CPU Usage" which they probably don't have defined in their terms.

Besides, from their terms...

HostGator reserves the right to cancel the account at any time with or without notice.

So if they think you're using too much resources, they'll just cancel you.

Another thing I hate about Hostgator is that they don't do any sort of backups... We backup all of our servers every hour.

[ardit217]

lol, i back up my sites daily.

But can't any company do that?
Close your account that is.

[DanielEZPZ]

Yeah they can. Some do it more often than others though.

i.e the biggest account that my company offers comes with 30GB of webspace. We have clients using their full quota and have no objection to them doing so.
We priced our packages based on the resources we offer and stick to them. On the flipside we have heard of Hostgator, Dreamhost etc, closing accounts due to resource usage.. without warning!

IMO offering 350GB of drivespace and 3,000GB of bandwidth every month for $4.95 is crazy.