That's called "over-selling" - its a pretty common model amongst any resource intensive businesses, which reminded me of a blog entry on the Dreamhost blog wher

That's called "over-selling" - its a pretty common model amongst any resource intensive businesses, which reminded me of a blog entry on the Dreamhost blog where Josh Jones makes a connection between the recent finance market debacle and over-selling: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/10/22/how-to-make-money/ http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/10/22/how-to-make-money/ Edit: the blog post is meant for light reading