SelectedHosting.com - any views?

[BongPig]

Does anybody host files with these people?
Thier rates seem almost too good to be true. There must be a catch.
( although, I hope there isnt! ;) )

[Jack Norton]

As far as I know (but I may be wrong) those unlimited offers are never really "unlimited", but since they're on shared servers they depend on:
- other sites on same server
- line speed

so if the connection for example is a 512kbit one you can download at max speed 64kb/s so it's around 400 Gb/month (that's still good). However if another one downloads comtemporary to you is 32kb/s and so on...

Also you should ask if they allow downloadable content. It may be obvious but when I tried to sign for a ISP here in Italy that has unlimited bandwidth I happened to discover that was applied only to HTML and images (JPG,GIF, etc) but NO downloadable files!!! :(

[BongPig]

Cheers Jack.
I figured that was the case. Im not very wise to this type of thing.
Ill ask them a few questions.

[Kai Backman]

An excellent source for doing research on different providers is WebHostingTalk at: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Just do a search on the forums.

[Jack Norton]

If you want a good hosting to files, I find myself very well for now at www.powweb.com
you pay 7.75$/month and have 5Gb/day limit. That's 150Gb/month, isn't bad, and they guarantee that traffic and have fast lines.

For now is enough, but maybe my games are smaller than yours :o