Overselling is a term that is used by the web hosting community to describe what happens whenever a web host oversells their services. This means that if the web host has 1,000 GB of bandwidth per month and the host sells 20 packages that include 1,000 GB per month of data transfer, then this totals 20,000 GB of monthly bandwidth and thus the web host has oversold itself. Of course, these web hosts are hoping that you will not use your allotted amount of bandwidth or else the web host will become unsustainable. Otherwise the host will have to pay an overage cost and if they cannot do this they go into debt, resulting in their service being suspended, your web site being offline and in then end your host may even go out of business with your one year of pre-payment.

Of course, this is something that you do not want to happen to you. Therefore, you need to understand that cheaper is not always better. Instead, the best idea is to go with a respected, high quality web host. Yet, you may still be wondering why a company would do this anyway? Simply put, this is a marketing strategy. If everyone that is on the host does not use up all of their allotted space there is going to be a lot of unused space. For this reason, a lot of web hosts decide to take the risk of overselling. This is like betting though. Herein the web host is betting that not all of the customers are going to use all of their space. Generally, most web hosts are able to get away with this without having any problems since the majority of web hosts really do not use all of their allocated space.

However, since SophiaHosting is a relative small company with a limited amount of accounts, we chose not to oversell. The full amount of disc space is yours to use, and your bandwidth is not shared by anybody.