Dedicatedslots
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Many Company Who say this they give this by purchasing best server then they offer like this.
How do they do it? Unlimited domains and bandwidth
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easyhostmedia
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their is nothing as truly unlimited hosting space or bandwidth, any host offering these will have a fair usage policy which will state limits.
SonWebHost
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It not to hard to understand most companies say that your able to have unlimited only applied to your website files. So not your backups, photos, and mp3 which are stored on the server but in different folders. That is how they do it in the terms of service.....
zxenterprises
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Yes unlimited is a marketing tag, exactly right. I have used hosts in past that said unlimited space and unmetered bandwidth and soon as I put some backup files on there got banned for using account as file host or soon as did any streaming or large downloads and actually used bandwidth got suspended for interfering with other accounts (obviously they dont have their accounts on the machines they advertise or that would never be an issue). There is aot fo false advertising these days, 99% of the hosts "oversell" using such tags figuring you wont ue it anyways but if you try they will find a way to violate you on the TOS and get rid of you, keeping your money fo course. Those things are EXACTLY why I decided to become a solutions provider again after takinga 7 year break.
Alex - A2 Hosting
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We are "one of those" unlimited hosts and for the majority it works out fine.
A limited company will limit your bandwidth and space, yes. Unlimited hosts doesn't monitor this but will have other restrictions in place such as other server resources, if they didn't then this is poorly managed unlimited hosting and the performance of your website will show on that.
Yes there are other restrictions such as what you can use (not storing backups / files not directly related to your website etc...) simply because people mistake unlimited hosting with "do what ever you want hosting" so these restrictions are set in place to help limit abuse.
A limited company will limit your bandwidth and space, yes. Unlimited hosts doesn't monitor this but will have other restrictions in place such as other server resources, if they didn't then this is poorly managed unlimited hosting and the performance of your website will show on that.
Yes there are other restrictions such as what you can use (not storing backups / files not directly related to your website etc...) simply because people mistake unlimited hosting with "do what ever you want hosting" so these restrictions are set in place to help limit abuse.
easyhostmedia
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Does that mean it "works out fine" for as long as the client only uses the service to a limit you find acceptable, but are unwilling to share that limit with them so it can be "stealthily" changed as and when it suits you?
We prefer a transparent and honest approach - that way customers know exactly what they are getting
Steve
They do indeed have limits on the disk space and bandwidth that you may actually use. But only they know what the limits are or they are buried somewhere in the TOS.
Try uploading a lot of files such as 100GB worth and you'll get kicked off.
I once tried that and got a suspension notice the next day after uploading 100GB of files.
Chad
Try uploading a lot of files such as 100GB worth and you'll get kicked off.
I once tried that and got a suspension notice the next day after uploading 100GB of files.
Chad
InertiaNetworks
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Personally I would only trust a host that showed you your limits right up front.
storminternet
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With the unlimited bandwidth you can have relaxation on use of bandwidth. However if your domain is hosted on shared server other domains can be affected with the high use of bandwidth by means of your domain.
You may enforce to upgrade your hosting package
You may enforce to upgrade your hosting package
Alex - A2 Hosting
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With a properly managed unlimited setup this won't be the case. Other resource limitations in place as well as a well thought out TOS policy would prevent the requirement for an upgrade for an average website.
Obviously at some point (As with any host in the world) a website will eventually come to the point where it is no longer suitable for the shared hosting environment.
:thumbup: I heard someone on a forum once say. If unlimited were truly real. Then why doesn't youtube just sign up for a shared hosting account for $5.00/per month and call it good instead of spending all that money on a data center?
There's no way anyone could host youtube on an unlimited shared hosting plan.
Unlimited disk space and bandwidth is just a marketing gimmick.
They will never allow you to use the whole servers resources for $4.00-$10.00 per month. If they did they would go out of business.
They're banking on the fact that you probably will use very little resources.
Chad
Alex - A2 Hosting
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Because bandwidth & disk space is not the only limiting factor in web hosting, if that is all your considering in your packages then you really need to sort your business practices out before you find your customers complaining.
You need to consider CPU, Ram among other things.
easyhostmedia
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their TOS will always show limits, but in theory if they give an unlimited disk space plan for $4 a month and they place you on a 1000GB server, you could use the full 1000GB for for $4, but their TOS would not allow this.
most clients will never use the full resources they are given in any plan
Alex - A2 Hosting
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We allow our clients to use as much disk space as they need. Though we don't allow them to store backups etc... on their shared hosting package. If there website requires that much disk space then so be it, as long as its within the other resource limitations.
Reality is we don't monitor the disk space and bandwidth, we do monitor CPU usage among other things INSTEAD.
99% of the websites we host are very happy with the service, performance etc... received.
Most of our clients barely use 1 GB of disk space and use around 4 GB of bandwidth at the most. I do have a client that uses his full disk space and I'm okay with that as it's website files.
And yes I know that disk space and bandwidth are not the only limiting factors. I had to suspend and terminate an account that had a really high traffic proxy that brought the server down.
He came close to hitting his bandwidth limit but never actually hit it.
Chad
easyhostmedia
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that maybe true, but lets say you are paying $300 a month for a server with 1000GB space and 1000GB b/w. then you get a client on a $4 a month unlimited plan and he uses all the 1000GB space on the server, would you be happy
Alex - A2 Hosting
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Then you'll understand how unlimited hosting works and how it is perfectly possible. Those who claim overselling, overselling etc... simply doesn't know business. If you are not overselling with limited or unlimited packages then you need to go back to your business plan.
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