Can I Disable My Page When I Near Bandwidth Quotas

[erikjones]

I recall reading that some hosts allow you to setup your account so that it is dissabled for the month, if you excede your bandwidth rather than your account being charged. The reason I am asking is that my present account exceeds my needs vastly, but I am a bit paranoid in general and would like to know if I can take some sort of premptive measure.

My general thinking is that I would rather suffer downtime for a day and upgrade my plan than suffer a large number of fees due to exceeding allowed use.

My page only hosts text and very small images so even the $25 a year plan is more than I can use. If I do ever upgrade it will most likely be to the personal plan, but that is at least a year off as far as I can tell because presently no one reads my page.

If some sort of setting as I described is not available I suppose I could always just rip down my site and/or put up a "temporarily unavailable" page, if I ever approach my bandwidth limits, that should leave little to suck up server resources.

[thevillageinn]

your site can likely be configured to suspend if you hit your quota (you'd need a help desk ticket for this), but with the cost of extra bandwidth (http://www.hostpc.com/extras.html) it's probably not even worth it to bother.

[Nick]

i think all packages are setup to suspend at limit whether it is bandwidth or disk usage
most customers don't want to pay the overages so that is why they are setup like that .. however you can always ask for it to be turned ... just know that a bill will come at the end of the month should be over
if your concerned about it .. put in a helpdesk ticket to be sure that it is turned on