Oversell, or not to Oversell?

[Captain Tycoon]

There are so many hosting companies around now that oversell, so is it a good idea or not?

[mountlaurel]

its not..
for me...

this will take or lessen your reliability, being a reseller you must know your resell limitation yet many people do overselling.

[Captain Tycoon]

I'm not talking about a reseller package, I'm talking about a dedicated server, its quite different to reseller package.

[domainer50]

Its never a good idea. It sounds great to the buyer, and makes great money for the seller. But when the server overloads its bad for everyone. I wouldnt do it.

[andrew2008]

Dont be a overseller. You earn more respect not to be. I would much rather pay alittle more for a host thats not a overseller, than have to be with a overseller.

[abiji]

Well i would also suggest not to oversell. Your company reputation is on stake if u oversell and server load increases and there is a downtime.

[sweetnatie]

Controlled overselling might be a sound idea, but overselling should also be controlled, I read that for each gygabyte of disk space three gygabytes could only be resold.

[Captain Tycoon]

Is it a good idea to limit your overselling? Such as to oversell with only 5 packages?

[htnho]

Is it a good idea to limit your overselling? Such as to oversell with only 5 packages?

I think it will never happen. Because we only have oversell or not. When they enabled oversell that's means they will oversell.

[puffin]

Is it a good idea to limit your overselling? Such as to oversell with only 5 packages?

I don't think there is such a thing as limited overselling. If someone start over sell wouldn't stop till clients start pissed off.

[UH-Bobby]

Yeah, I agree, I would stay far far away from overselling, but there's another thing you have to consider. It takes a lot more work to get a customer in a non-overselling business model. You won't make as much money, but like another said, you'll earn more respect. It's hard to convince the consumer that non-oversold is better. They just see numbers, 500 is bigger than 5.

[arnis164]

it's not a good idea. you will earn more if u will not be overseler

[sharkee]

Overselling is a sales strategy that works. Many experienced people will not trust a host that sells. However, most people who are not that experienced will think that they are getting a good deal so they are more likely to want to host their site with you.

My advice is this: don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. We all know that 'unlimited' really means unmetered, i.e. as long as your not crashing the servers. If you feel your servers can take the pressure and you can offer quality service then why not use the sales tactics of offering "unlimited features"? Technically, you will be overselling, but as long as you keep your customers happy it won't kill your rep.

[james0131]

Its never a good idea. It sounds great to the buyer, and makes great money for the seller. But when the server overloads its bad for everyone. I wouldnt do it.

I agree with you oversell create overloads issue which create bad impression on clients

[sstechnomed]

Too old Discussion but one can find valuable and unknown stuffs.