Just after GoDaddy launched Quick Podcast hosting plans for podcasters, they were doubling the space and bandwidth transfer of their deluxe and premium plans in response to their competition.

There are three podcast hosting plans available for virtual hosting:

• Economy plan: 5GB space, 250GB transfer.
• Deluxe plan: 100GB space, 1,000GB transfer.
• Premium plan: 200GB space, 2,000 GB transfer.

Talking about podcast hosting and overselling…

Quick Podcast hosting packages from GoDaddy help new podcasters to start and promote their podcasts. But those features by no means hard to get.

You can always get a standard hosting package, launch a blog with all its benefits and turn it into a podcast feed generation tool. Burn the feed with FeedBurner to get additional stats. Indeed, this set of tools promise the greatest benefits for a podcast publishing platform.

Basically, podcasters could easily turn to deluxe or premium hosting for podcasting. Why pay more if you can get more with less money — from the same company/ hosting provider? Unless they have a better selling proposition to guarantee response time or bandwith quality, for example.

The second issue is overselling. With such amount of space and bandwidth, a server could at best handle two to three accounts to their maximum capacity.

In real life, only a fraction of 1 percent of hosting accounts will ever use all the resources, so overselling actually is a valid business model for hosting. Otherwise, disk arrays would sit 98% empty and network pipes 1% full.

Cool.

Now the issue shifts to after-sales customer and technical support. Are they reliable and responsive? Will they relocate your account to another server in case of serve overload? I have heard again and again that hosting provider simply shutdown accounts even if you reach only 75 percent of the promised capacity.

Overselling itself is not bad. How the provider response to this issue is.

If getting a semi-dedicated or dedicated hosting is not an option, if virtual hosting is the only suitable thing for your budget right now, please do your own due diligence before proceeding. My favorite place is web forum.

Try them out before deciding which one you will use. Use money back guarantee time limit to test features, performance, reliability, uptime and others. Fire technical support questions to see how reponsive they are.

Finally, if you want my recommendation, Dreamhost (aff) has earned great reputation with comparable features and benefits. More than 200,000 domains can’t be wrong.

Link: GoDaddy (no aff).

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