could be the end of the "Unlimited" marketing gimmick

[Collabora]

There will some troubles happened some day,when more and more clients abuse unlimited webhosting. At last,their websites would be down.

The abuse, and its result, is no different than that found with sites on quota-based hosting plans. As EasyHost mentioned, monitoring tools will catch it easily.

Can you provide a real-life example of abuse that is unique to sites on an unlimited hosting plan?

 

[easyhostmedia]

So are mine.

but you do limit clients

http://www.collabora365.com/support/client-area/knowledgebase/6/Unlimited-Hosting-FAQ.html

Is Unlimited the Same as Infinite?

Absolutley not! Although as your host we are no longer limiting you with arbitrary and artificial quotas traditionally found in Hosting Plans, hardware does have physical limits that you (and we) still need to worry about: If your site is not suitable for a shared hosting environment and is causing issues for others on your shared server (either because it’s pounding the CPU, hogging RAM, or doing tons of disk I/O), you may be asked to sign up for your own Dedicated Server or Virtual Server. (Every host out there -- limited hosts inlcluded -- has the same sort of "fair use policy;" we’re just trying to be up front about them!)

which is what me and other had stated HDD etc. all have limits all you seems to do is if a client reaches a limit is either move them for free or ask them to upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server.

 

[Collabora]

but you do limit clients

http://www.collabora365.com/support/client-area/knowledgebase/6/Unlimited-Hosting-FAQ.html



which is what me and other had stated HDD etc. all have limits all you seems to do is if a client reaches a limit is either move them for free or ask them to upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server.

Your mistake/confusion is applying the nature of the unlimited hosting plan to hardware and other resources not in the hosting plan. I don't know how many more ways to explain it -- the thing that is unlimited is the hosting resources listed in the hosting plan and created by the provider, whether it be unlimited databases, unlimited email unlimited domains or unlimited diskspace. There is nothing in the hosting plan that promises unlimited cpu, ram, i/o, etc. The unlimited plan remains in the context of shared hosting. Never have I said or promised anything else.

98% of our sites can fit in your Plan A, the rest can fit in your Plan B with room to spare. We simply don't believe there is any reason to present hosting as a telescoping series of limited hosting plans of ever increasing resources (such as disk space) and prices. So we removed the quota limits for disk space and data transfer and call them unlimited (just like we do for email, databases, etc)
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[easyhostmedia]

Your mistake/confusion is applying the nature of the unlimited hosting plan to hardware and other resources not in the hosting plan. I don't know how many more ways to explain it -- the thing that is unlimited is the hosting resources listed in the hosting plan and created by the provider, whether it be unlimited databases, unlimited email unlimited domains or unlimited diskspace. There is nothing in the hosting plan that promises unlimited cpu, ram, i/o, etc. The unlimited plan remains in the context of shared hosting. Never have I said or promised anything else.

98% of our sites can fit in your Plan A, the rest can fit in your Plan B with room to spare. We simply don't believe there is any reason to present hosting as a telescoping series of limited hosting plans of ever increasing resources (such as disk space) and prices. So we removed the quota limits for disk space and data transfer and call them unlimited (just like we do for email, databases, etc)
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so why do you state

If your site is not suitable for a shared hosting environment and is causing issues for others on your shared server (either because it’s pounding the CPU, hogging RAM, or doing tons of disk I/O), you may be asked to sign up for your own Dedicated Server or Virtual Server.

that's is because they have reached their limit ( the reason for them pounding the CPU, hogging RAM, or doing tons of disk I/O) so you upsell them a VPS or Dedicated server.
so you are imposing limits

 

[Collabora]

so why do you state

that's is because they have reached their limit ( the reason for them pounding the CPU, hogging RAM, or doing tons of disk I/O) so you upsell them a VPS or Dedicated server.
so you are imposing limits

I don't understand why this concept is so difficult for a host to understand. Disk space quota has nothing to do with cpu, ram or i/o. Doesn't matter whether you are offering a limit of 5 GB of disk space or no GB limit on the disk space. Either way what is promised in the hosting plan can be restricted further due to conditions external to the hosting plan.

Those same external resources put limits on unlimited email, databases, domains, etc. also. If customer "unlimited" email goes over an inode limit (catchall accounts are #1 contributor to inode usage) or a disk space limit, I might be upsold to get a vps and/or my own dedicated email server. Web or email -- same deal.

You are defining an unlimited hosting plan that no one offers and impossible to create in a shared hosting environment. And then by knocking that down you pretend to refute the ones that are actually being offered. You offer nothing but a straw man argument. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)

Same priniciples that apply to unlimited email applies to unlimited disk space and vice versa. Its the quota limits listed in the hosting plans that are unlimited. Those are the only things labeled as unlimited. To continuously insist that other resources external to the hosting plan must also be unlimited or the host is some sort of scammer is ludicrous. To insist while offering unlimited email, databases, domains, etc is hypocrisy
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