Talk:Fair-share scheduling

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Fair-share scheme[edit]

Fair-share is used by some hosting companies to lure customers with cheap deals. After a few weeks the service will be disabled arbitrarily citing a unfair resource overuse and a more expensive, dedicated server might be offered. Means to limit the own unfair resource use are not made available.

It is obvious why this content keeps getting removed by certain people again and again. So I recommend locking this whole article to prevent vandalism.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.87.140 (talk • contribs) 12:09, 27 February 2014‎

I removed it as off-topic, but realise now that I misread your edit. Even so, this is unsourced - can you provide a source that clearly frames this as a "fair-share scheduling" issue? --McGeddon (talk) 12:16, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is advertised as Fair-Share by hosting companies and means that the CPU usage is shared between users as this article explains. If you think Fair-Share Scheme should have it's own article like e.g. Ponzi Scheme,etc. I'll make it so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.87.140 (talk) 12:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article would need a reliable source that both identified such schemes as being offered by modern hosting companies, and that they "lure customers with cheap deals". If this is just a conclusion drawn from your own personal experience, I'm afraid that's not sufficient. --McGeddon (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I have enough proof and material to give a new article enough substance. Thanks for your advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.87.140 (talk) 13:56, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good to hear it. Might be better as a section at virtual private server or somewhere depending on how many sources you have and the context of it. --McGeddon (talk) 15:09, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]