A good friend of mine asked me today about the specs on our plan, and pointed out that 5GB of space wasn’t as much as some other hosting sites will promise for comparable prices. And this is true, I told her – she had done her research in terms of what plans advertised well. BUT, as Keith aptly pointed out, “those jokers will shut you down long before you use that allowance.”
The idea is this: most people don’t use more than 5GB of space, and that is precisely what some other hosting sites bank on when they advertise their specs. And I’ve heard many a horror story of people who approached their quota and were shut down because at the specs that were promised, it’s not actually worth it for the companies.
To make sure I could back this premise up, we did only a quick search and found these:
http://corlan.org/2008/10/13/my-nightmare-monday-thanks-to-godaddy/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-fendelman/why-i-dont-owe-godaddy-65_b_129276.html
The second story was picked up by consumerist and discussed here:
http://consumerist.com/5056063/perhaps-you-dont-owe-godaddy-6579
These companies hope to make money on a false sense of “value” since they sell you things they hope you won’t use.
PeachyHost is a reaction to that kind of business model, and we hope to “fight the good fight” so-to-speak, and be straight-up about what you will get for each penny you invest in your company and in your website.
If you need more space than we’ve allotted in our initial plans, then talk to us, and we will work out something fair. If you purchase an initial plan and start to find out six months down the road that you’ve grown and need more of everything – that’s fine too. We will not shut you down when your usage increases. We will simply contact you and figure out what kind of plan would now suit your bigger business.
This is the first of, I’m sure, many iterations of this ideal. But I think it’s important to get across. PeachyHost is not simply trying to provide a affordable alternative to already affordable alternatives. And you should not join up with us just because we are a smaller company that won’t have over-saturated servers.