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We have had a great uptake with our Christmas sale and just like that we are closing in on the New Year! We have had many requests for a deal on our Enterprise plan so we have worked out a limited time deal, while stock lasts! Get in quick!

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Daniel15

"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

CoastHosting

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

We do offer unmetered not unlmited. We took advice how unlimited could be misleading which is not the intention so we changed it to Unmetered, As mentioned we do not have hard limits, so of users go over the set amount as long as it is web site related then there is no problem. If LowEndTalk user prefer we put limits we can do this. It's very important to realize shared hosting is shared hosting, not file storage.

Daniel15

@davenz It is metered though, based on the wording in your ToS. Unmetered usually means the provider literally has no meter / no monitoring showing how much you've used. If you have a soft limit at 50GB then that's not really unmetered.

CoastHosting

@Daniel15 said:
@davenz It is metered though, based on the wording in your ToS. Unmetered usually means the provider literally has no meter / no monitoring showing how much you've used. If you have a soft limit at 50GB then that's not really unmetered.

We need to meter overall to grow storage when required. Individual accounts do not have a hard limit.

Really appreciate feedback though we will take it into consideration.

Daniel15

@davenz Maybe you could advertise it as something like "50GB (more space available for free on request, with justification)"? Makes it clearer that there's a soft limit but not a hard limit.

Personally I dislike when hosts advertise that they have "unlimited" or "unmetered" disk space

speedypage

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

I think this provider would be fine in terms of the ACCC, it's just the same as an ISP. They all are 'Unlimited' and then have a FUP in the TOS, even NBN itself has it.

Daniel15

@speedypage said:

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

I think this provider would be fine in terms of the ACCC, it's just the same as an ISP. They all are 'Unlimited' and then have a FUP in the TOS, even NBN itself has it.

Oooo, good point. I know that telcos got in trouble and fined for phone plans that were advertised as "unlimited" but actually slowed down once a quota was reached, but I guess that's actually a different thing since it's a hard cutoff.

IMO it's still better to explicitly advertise a soft limit than to say unlimited or unmetered but have a specific number in the ToS.

CoastHosting

@Daniel15 said:

@speedypage said:

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

I think this provider would be fine in terms of the ACCC, it's just the same as an ISP. They all are 'Unlimited' and then have a FUP in the TOS, even NBN itself has it.

Oooo, good point. I know that telcos got in trouble and fined for phone plans that were advertised as "unlimited" but actually slowed down once a quota was reached, but I guess that's actually a different thing since it's a hard cutoff.

IMO it's still better to advertise a hard limit than to say unlimited or unmetered but have a specific number in the ToS.

We find a lot of users are not aware of how much usage they need so we help them. Unmetered gives them peace of mind there web site is not going to get cut off. Majority of users are business, some e-commerce web sites. Which on average do not use a lot of space due to offloading images using S3 and CDN's but not all users are aware of how to do this so we're pretty flexible

Astro

@davenz said:

@Daniel15 said:

@speedypage said:

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

I think this provider would be fine in terms of the ACCC, it's just the same as an ISP. They all are 'Unlimited' and then have a FUP in the TOS, even NBN itself has it.

Oooo, good point. I know that telcos got in trouble and fined for phone plans that were advertised as "unlimited" but actually slowed down once a quota was reached, but I guess that's actually a different thing since it's a hard cutoff.

IMO it's still better to advertise a hard limit than to say unlimited or unmetered but have a specific number in the ToS.

We find a lot of users are not aware of how much usage they need so we help them. Unmetered gives them peace of mind there web site is not going to get cut off. Majority of users are business, some e-commerce web sites. Which on average do not use a lot of space due to offloading images using S3 and CDN's but not all users are aware of how to do this so we're pretty flexible

How would you handle say a linux distro site with two three isos for download?

CoastHosting

@BarkingIron said:

@davenz said:

@Daniel15 said:

@speedypage said:

@Daniel15 said:
"unmetered storage" is obviously misleading, as by definition it has to be metered to comply with your fair use policy so you can determine if there's more than 50GB of files:

Although we do not have a hard limit on the amount of storage, we do have a fair use policy of the average web site being 30GB-50GB per hosting account. This is an acceptable limit for a shared hosting service. As long as your the files uploaded are related to your web site we allow this. If you anticipate higher usage we recommend VPS, At this time we do not offer this product. We do not allow Download sites, Tube Sites, Adult Sites or anything we deem illegal.

Particularly since you're in Australia, you should be careful about usage of the word "unlimited" or "unmetered" given the large fines ACCC have given out in the past over misuse of these terms...

I think this provider would be fine in terms of the ACCC, it's just the same as an ISP. They all are 'Unlimited' and then have a FUP in the TOS, even NBN itself has it.

Oooo, good point. I know that telcos got in trouble and fined for phone plans that were advertised as "unlimited" but actually slowed down once a quota was reached, but I guess that's actually a different thing since it's a hard cutoff.

IMO it's still better to advertise a hard limit than to say unlimited or unmetered but have a specific number in the ToS.

We find a lot of users are not aware of how much usage they need so we help them. Unmetered gives them peace of mind there web site is not going to get cut off. Majority of users are business, some e-commerce web sites. Which on average do not use a lot of space due to offloading images using S3 and CDN's but not all users are aware of how to do this so we're pretty flexible

How would you handle say a linux distro site with two three isos for download?

No, this would clearly be a download site then which is against terms of service. And it's not specific as there are plenty of distro download hubs around the internet.

If you flick me a message i can review and might be able to work something out

CoastHosting

We sold out! Though we, We have extended to just 10 more packages at this deal get in quick!

not_dilligaf

@davenz said: We sold out! We have extended to just 10 more

Congrats Coast Hosting.... I got one and it is working very well. Great for those with Aussie sites, although Los Angeles comes close.

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cPanel ??? - Providers still buy cPanel ???

CoastHosting

@not_dilligaf said:

@davenz said: We sold out! We have extended to just 10 more

Congrats Coast Hosting.... I got one and it is working very well. Great for those with Aussie sites, although Los Angeles comes close.

That's great to hear @not_dilligaf and thanks for giving us a try, really appreciate your business!

CoastHosting

@default said:
cPanel ??? - Providers still buy cPanel ???

Yes we doo!