First – What is unlimited hosting.
Nowadays most of the web hosting providers use this keyword(unlimited) in their website when promoting their hosting service.why?
The two major issues in webhosting are
- Web space
- Bandwidth
In every hosting plan there is limit for the above two features. what if a hosting provider sets no limit for the above two? Really nice hah?
NOT REALLY as you think.
Unlimited web-space plans are not really unlimited
Web-space is space in web server’s hard disk, alloted by your hosting provider to host your website(s) in that server. Hard disk is physical storage medium, its a hardware, it should have limit to store data, the limit is the capacity of the hard disk. The disk capacity may vary from GBs to TBs(Tera bytes). so the spaces are limited, not unlimited. Especially in shared webhosting you will never get unlimited web hosting space.
Unlimited Bandwidth plans are not really unlimited
Bandwidth is an amount of data transfer which is provided to transfer web pages from the web server to the browsers of visitors. Every data from Web pages to hosted graphics like flash files, pictures like jpeg,gif, media files like mp3,video file consumes bandwidth when they transfered from web server to client or browser.
Again any physical medium like copper wire, optical fibre cables are used to transfer the data. so this also must have certain limits from mbps to gbps(giga bits per second). if it is shared hosting again the bandwidth is shortened by other hosts in the hosting network.so you can’t transfer or use unlimited bandwidth.
Why Hosting Providers Use the word Unlimited Hosting then?
there are many compelling reasons to use this word ‘unlimited hosting’. The word ‘unlimited’ attracts more customers rather than any of the other. Customers thinks this way ” when we buy unlimited hosting, then we don’t worry about how much files we hosting and bandwidth metering “.Hosting services is the most competitive field, if a hosting provider wants to stay long in this field he must use this tactic.
So the facts is “NO ONE CAN PROVIDE UNLIMITED HOSTING PLANS”
Unlimited Hosting – Real Fact
How the hosting providers manage with unlimited hosting plans.
- Most of the web hosting customers never use the space and bandwidth feature above certain limit. Every body think that they need unlimited webspace or bandwidth at the start, that is when they choose the hosting plan, after the course of time not every body use the whole feature above certain limit.
- In unlimited hosting plans the limit by size, or numbers or file type. most of the hosting provider never allow you to store or transfer large files like audio files and video files. some of the hosting providers restrict the size of the file which are going to be hosted, eg. you can’t store a file which is greater than some size limit (say 50mb). some hosting providers limits by number of files regardless of size(hostgator allows to store 250,000 files in unlimited hosting.)
- In unlimited bandwidth plan the data transfer bandwidth is reduced or capped by the provider, so you can transfer limited size of data at a time. by this way your bandwidth is reduced. many of the web masters feel that their site slows down in unlimited bandwidth plan.
Is the company Dishonest?
No. Its like a big offering advertisement with small ” conditions apply ” word at the bottom.
As like the above example you can see the conditions in the TOS(terms and conditions) of the hosting providers’ page. if you look for the term ‘unlimited’ in TOS you can understand all these.So always remember to read TOS of the company before to be a part of it.
So what to do?
The other limited plans are always better than unlimited plans. A hosting provider can give unlimited e-mails,unlimited subdomain, unlimited domains,unlimited database, but they can’t actually give Unlimited space and bandwidth. The unlimited plans are not much reliable in speed and access when compared to limited plans.
DO NOT GO FOR UNLIMITED PLAN IF YOU ARE NEW TO HOSTING
Written by Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
About Author: A professional blogger, writes on blogging and other various web trends and activities that relates to blogging. His articles are more strategical than being more technical.
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