Jorge,
I challenge you to attempt to do what he is asking on a Dream Host account. What they do is "oversell" their resources! For example their basic plan offers 500 gigs of web hosting space. This means that if this were true every client that they host have an allotted 500 gig hard drive for themselves. Which by my figures means 500 gigs x 300,000 hosted domain = 1500000000 gigs of storage. Which honestly I don't think DreamHost has that type of storage over at their facilities. They do the same thing with bandwidth, they say you have 5 TB which is 5000 gigs by the way because they know the average user WONT use more than 5-10 gigs per month.
Now go to Dream Host and attempt to host those files and have 250 people at the same time try and download a 100 meg file. I can assure you that within an hour you will have "ACCOUNT SUSPENDED- BANDWIDTH/RESOURCE ABUSE CITED". I am not putting down Dream Host because lots of other hosts do that, I am just letting everyone know how the business works ;-)
Tom C.
Believe me if you try and host anywhere near this amount of data on dream host they will cancel your account. It has happend to me. They are not the only ones though many of the shared hosting sites with promises of large amounts of bandwidth will suspend your account or force you to upgrade once you start using large amounts of bandwidth. They usually say it is because you are using too much of the processing power on the server.
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