There are many hosting companies around these days that are suspending many people’s subscription suddenly without warning based on the fact that traffic is too high, even the ones that charge you for bandwidth.

It’s like telling people you serve a one price eat all you can buffet and realising that these people can REALLY eat, you put a stop to their eating, claiming they’re eating too much. Worse, in this case, you are paying for every dish and they still tell you you’re eating too much.

To all these hosting companies, it goes to show that your prices are wrong and unrealistic. I sincerely hope that your own provider shut you down when you have a huge bunch of subscribers subscribing to your service.

*Touch wood* Lucky my current host isn’t like that. *Touch wood*

On a similar note, a similar incident happened to a friend of mine during my poly days. He and kakis went to this all you can eat restaurant and went haywire. They ate a lot and the manager actually came out and told them they should not eat so much.

My friend and his kakis shot back, “If we’re not wasting the food, we should be allowed to eat since you advertised it as eat all you can.”

The manager wasn’t pleased and went on to make things difficult for them by delaying how fast the food was served, cooking a huge amount for their order of fried rice etc… Needless to say the restaurant has since closed down.

Another more recent incident is the closure of a friend’s currency trading account. Usual practice by other trading firms was to charge a percentage of the amount traded but this particular firm advertised that they only charge 1 dollar per trade regardless of the amount.

My friend’s account was suddenly suspended on day without any warning except for an email stating that his volume of trade wasn’t enough to justify the company’s continual provision of service because they could not take the amount of interests they’re paying out.

So my suggestion? Take care when you see offers in the form of “one price fits all”.