Comment Holy COW!!!! (And a fun story.) (Score 1) 282
This is a DIRECT quote from their Terms of Service:
"III.A.3 In the event you consume more than 30kbp/s of sustained peak traffic within any 24 hour period of time ... a fee of $1 dollar per 1kbp/s will be billed to your account."
Story Time! Gather round, Kids!
One day you find a picture of some guy opening his mail and screaming in horror. Ha ha! That's a funny picture. You get out Gimp and make his eye bulge out a little more. Ha ha! Now it's really funny!
Looks like a good day to put up a web site, so you buy an unlimited account for $40. Thanks, Page Creators, that's quite a bargain!
You don't have time to write any content, so you just put your funny picture of the man opening his bills and screaming there for now, and you go to have a beer and some pizza with a friend.
While you're away, you tell your friend about your funny picture. He dials up with his 28.8 modem and looks at it. Ha ha! That person opening his bills and screaming in horror is pretty funny! Luckily, his 28.8 modem doesn't exceed Page Creators generous bandwidth peak bandwidth limit. He sends his friend a link to your funny pictures and you go back to building him a couch using empty beer bottles and a hot glue gun.
Meanwhile his friend, who has a good 56k modem, looks at your funny picture. Ha ha! That picture sure is funny! Oopsie, but now our peak bandwidth is OVER the generous limit set by Page Creators, and they are forced to bill you $26. He emails a friend about your funny picture.
His friend has 750k DSL and she surfs through once. Poor Page Creators is forced to bill you $720 for the month. She sends an email to a friend.
Oh, no! Her friend is a bored person whose business has a T1 and they're looking at the picture on your website!! This is gonna run you $1,410 this month. Her friend sends a link to a friend.
You're still emptying beer bottles so they can be added to the couch, so you don't know that her friend is also at work, but HIS company has a T3! This costs you $44,970. It's OK, you can still sell a kidney and come out of this a few bucks ahead...
...but OH NO!! The friend has a friend who works at MCI and has a PC sitting on the same OC3 as your web provider! HE looks at the picture the instant before you're able to remove all the files from your site! Damn you, section III.A.3! You've just been nailed for $154,970!
Your site becomes wildly popular. You put a UGO banner over the funny picture of someone opening their bills and screaming, and it makes you $5000 a month due to all the hits. This amounts to about 3% of your web hosting bill.
You sell your house, your car, a kidney, a lung, both of your children, and everything you own, but you still come up short a few months down the road. You are tracked down by Page Creators' goons and killed horribly.
The end.
"III.A.3 In the event you consume more than 30kbp/s of sustained peak traffic within any 24 hour period of time
Story Time! Gather round, Kids!
One day you find a picture of some guy opening his mail and screaming in horror. Ha ha! That's a funny picture. You get out Gimp and make his eye bulge out a little more. Ha ha! Now it's really funny!
Looks like a good day to put up a web site, so you buy an unlimited account for $40. Thanks, Page Creators, that's quite a bargain!
You don't have time to write any content, so you just put your funny picture of the man opening his bills and screaming there for now, and you go to have a beer and some pizza with a friend.
While you're away, you tell your friend about your funny picture. He dials up with his 28.8 modem and looks at it. Ha ha! That person opening his bills and screaming in horror is pretty funny! Luckily, his 28.8 modem doesn't exceed Page Creators generous bandwidth peak bandwidth limit. He sends his friend a link to your funny pictures and you go back to building him a couch using empty beer bottles and a hot glue gun.
Meanwhile his friend, who has a good 56k modem, looks at your funny picture. Ha ha! That picture sure is funny! Oopsie, but now our peak bandwidth is OVER the generous limit set by Page Creators, and they are forced to bill you $26. He emails a friend about your funny picture.
His friend has 750k DSL and she surfs through once. Poor Page Creators is forced to bill you $720 for the month. She sends an email to a friend.
Oh, no! Her friend is a bored person whose business has a T1 and they're looking at the picture on your website!! This is gonna run you $1,410 this month. Her friend sends a link to a friend.
You're still emptying beer bottles so they can be added to the couch, so you don't know that her friend is also at work, but HIS company has a T3! This costs you $44,970. It's OK, you can still sell a kidney and come out of this a few bucks ahead...
...but OH NO!! The friend has a friend who works at MCI and has a PC sitting on the same OC3 as your web provider! HE looks at the picture the instant before you're able to remove all the files from your site! Damn you, section III.A.3! You've just been nailed for $154,970!
Your site becomes wildly popular. You put a UGO banner over the funny picture of someone opening their bills and screaming, and it makes you $5000 a month due to all the hits. This amounts to about 3% of your web hosting bill.
You sell your house, your car, a kidney, a lung, both of your children, and everything you own, but you still come up short a few months down the road. You are tracked down by Page Creators' goons and killed horribly.
The end.
