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[pcq133]

I'm not trying to knock TCH as I was referred here by a friend. If I start out with a small plan and want to expand my site in the future, why do I get less value for my dollar the higher up the plan chart I go? I could get more out of four Silver Plans than I could a Platinum Plan for almost $6 less a month. I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation, and again I'm not trying to put anyone on the spot, but it's a question I must know.

[KevinW]

My .02 worth --

 

1. If you go with 4 Silver plans, there's no guarantee that all 4 plans would be placed on the same physical server. Also understand that you would have four separate web server spoace, you could not combine them into one site.

 

2. If you have a single web site that needs the sizing offered by the Platinum package, you undoubtedly are needing the larger bandwidth requirements offered by the Platinum package.

 

Given 1 & 2, going with the Platinum package means you are putting more demand on the server plan, and as well, there will be less room to put other users on that particular server.

 

I use that as an justification, because some other web providers will cram as many users on a single server as possible - without regard to how it may impact existing users.

 

TCH, on the other hand, has actually stopped taking orders for a 24 hour period once or twice until they had a new server online - because they did not want to simply cram more users on an existing server.

 

Again, just my take -- not an official response!

-kw

[TCH-Sales]

Kevin has it right on the money!

[pcq133]

That's not really the answer I was looking for. kwelbacher, I don't see how one Platinum package would put anymore demand on a server than four seperate customers with Silver packages. For example if you normally placed 12 Silver Accounts on a server, with 1 Platinum account obviously you would have to place 8 Silver Accounts on it for an even balance. I don't see why you have to charge 5x the price when 4x the price balances out to 4 Silver packages. And plus, wouldn't it be easier on TCH's end to manage one large account instead of four smaller ones? That's three less customers TCH has to service and bill.

 

Until now I've never found a webhost that didn't give at least the same value for a larger package.