After the negative responses after HostGator monetised their customers’ 404 Not Found page, you’ll be thinking that no one else is going to mock around someone else’s domain — even your customers. Wrong. After all when the money talks, who needs ethics? Over the last 6 months I have seen more and more budget hosting companies seeking to make more money from 404 pages. Lunarpages, is one of the latest web hosting companies that tried out this scheme. However it back fired, its customers revolted, and it is all documented in this WebHostingTalk.com thread.

Brent Oxley of HostGator has recently written an article explaining their hosting plan change, which gives their $9.95/month “Baby” plan 6,000GB/month data transfer and $12.95/month “Swamp” plan unlimited monthly data transfer — they are Selling Out.

How do all us shared web hosting companies sell more disk space and bandwidth for ten bucks then the dedicated server providers sell for hundreds?

Its an easy concept really. Every web host has a terms of service with CPU and memory limits. If your website consumed too much of its share of CPU or memory then most web hosts will require you to upgrade. When you purchase a dedicated server you cant get shut down for CPU or memory abuse so they have to sell you a plan based on what your site could use with less restrictions.

Interesting article written last week at Royal Pingdom — Google availability differs greatly between countries, where Pingdom, a server/web-site availability monitoring company based in Sweden, tried to measure the uptime of Google’s country-specific websites. The conclusion is —

Google Search users in the United States are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem than users in Brazil, according to this unique one-year survey from Pingdom.