# How Do They Do It?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258
**Category:** random
**Created:** [June 4, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258 "2008-06-04T13:25:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@tecktalk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tecktalk)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/1 "2008-06-04T13:25:59Z")
I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like [Bluehost.com](http://Bluehost.com), [Dreamhost.com](http://Dreamhost.com) and [Hostgator.com](http://Hostgator.com) and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/2 "2008-06-04T13:41:20Z")
Money
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### Author:  [@k77](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/k77)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/3 "2008-06-04T22:38:59Z")
There really is no such thing as bandwidth. Its just a fake limitation in capitalism like the IMF portrays money
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/4 "2008-06-05T00:23:41Z")
Thumb rule of hosting providers: The always lie about the bandwidth available.
Might sound cynical, but it’s almost always true.
Storage capacity though… I mean… storage media is cheap as dirt these days.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/5 "2008-06-05T00:35:34Z")
They are betting on people not using a hundredth of what they pay for. They also usually couldn’t nearly handle every person using all their disk space.
The thing is, 99% of people don’t even get in sight of their limits on these hosts, so they can make up whatever numbers they want. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/6 "2008-06-06T12:05:54Z")
Big hosting like that is a lie, which is why I’m going to move from a (mt) GS to a Joyent Accelerator very soon.
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### Author:  [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-they-do-it/262258/7 "2008-06-06T12:21:20Z")
[QUOTE=k77;2336853]There really is no such thing as bandwidth. Its just a fake limitation in capitalism like the IMF portrays money[/QUOTE]
There’s such thing as bandwidth, however, metered bandwidth expressed in a unit for disk space is fundamentally incorrect IMHO. Just a means for dividing up services to optimize money. In reality, the bandwidth of a certain cable is what limits hosts from serving up web pages infinitely fast for an infinite number of users.
Wikipedia says a more accurate term for the hosts version of bandwidth is Monthly Data Transfer, and I’ve got to agree. It’s a real limitation, as you can’t pipe trillions of bits of transfer through one cable in a second; you can estimate bandwidth usage per hour of the day and limit accordingly with a “monthly data transfer” estimate.