[Sam]

What are your thoughts on unlimited diskspace and bandwidth packages?

[Bananaman]

There is no such thing as 'Unlimited' hosting. Unmetered yes, but Unlimited no.

[shamzblueworld]

No one actually needs it I think, unless you are a big company like google, fb etc.

[CyberFreak]

I just find these hosts to be (for lack of a better word) malicious. Unlimited means no limit. That said if your site needs 4tb of files, I am sure the host will find an excuse to kick your off. These hosts will not let you so much resources that they make a loss out of hosting you. "Unlimited" only relates to Disk space and bandwidth. There are still many other limits in place such as CPU, memory, number of files and some hosts limit the amount of php processes etc. They will have an excuse for kicking you off when they stop making money out of you and the costs of what you use is equal or more than what you pay.

These host suck people in by making them think that they sign up and never have to worry about hosting again and don't have to worry about out growing their plan but that is far from the truth.

[netsavy006]

They may call it unlimited, but there has to be some limit.

[Sam]

I just find these hosts to be (for lack of a better word) malicious. Unlimited means no limit. That said if your site needs 4tb of files, I am sure the host will find an excuse to kick your off. These hosts will not let you so much resources that they make a loss out of hosting you. "Unlimited" only relates to Disk space and bandwidth. There are still many other limits in place such as CPU, memory, number of files and some hosts limit the amount of php processes etc. They will have an excuse for kicking you off when they stop making money out of you and the costs of what you use is equal or more than what you pay.

These host suck people in by making them think that they sign up and never have to worry about hosting again and don't have to worry about out growing their plan but that is far from the truth.

I did here that HostGator has a few legitimate clients who are hosting 80Gb + on a shared package. This could just be a marketing ploy though - leaving on a couple of unprofitable clients to pretend they allow gbs of files on their shared hosting. It definitely does work at sucking people into buying though when they may only need a 500mb or 1Gb package.

On a related- interesting- point: WebHostingTalk will be allowing unlimited offers.

[shamzblueworld]

Does anyone has an idea about which site consists of the largest hosting in terms of space?

[CyberFreak]

I just find these hosts to be (for lack of a better word) malicious. Unlimited means no limit. That said if your site needs 4tb of files, I am sure the host will find an excuse to kick your off. These hosts will not let you so much resources that they make a loss out of hosting you. "Unlimited" only relates to Disk space and bandwidth. There are still many other limits in place such as CPU, memory, number of files and some hosts limit the amount of php processes etc. They will have an excuse for kicking you off when they stop making money out of you and the costs of what you use is equal or more than what you pay.

These host suck people in by making them think that they sign up and never have to worry about hosting again and don't have to worry about out growing their plan but that is far from the truth.

I did here that HostGator has a few legitimate clients who are hosting 80Gb + on a shared package. This could just be a marketing ploy though - leaving on a couple of unprofitable clients to pretend they allow gbs of files on their shared hosting. It definitely does work at sucking people into buying though when they may only need a 500mb or 1Gb package.

On a related- interesting- point: WebHostingTalk will be allowing unlimited offers.

It may also be that there are alot of large files or a large number of files but they are not really accessed, the sites have low traffic or are mainly static sites (no php or MySQL usage) meaning that while they use alot of space, the cost in terms or bandwidth, CPU and memory usage may be very low. Additionally some hosts stop backing up sites with a large amount of data and files so that could bring the cost down of hosting a large account. All in all they may not even be making a loss on an account of that size.

I wouldn't be surprised if they do also pick a few customers who are quite vocal or powerful when it comes to webmaster/webhosting communities and give them preferential treatment in the hope that they will promote their service and make it look like they are better than they are to normal customers. I am sure some hosts do this but whether Hostgator is one of them, I don't know but I usually judge hosts by my own experience or by experience of people I know. I don't really trust customer reviews on hosting feedback sites as you never know if they are real customers or not.

[TimeRider]

There is no such thing as 'Unlimited' hosting. Unmetered yes, but Unlimited no.

I totally agree with Dennis. Everything has a limit. Unlimited Hosting are something which are extended because the Hosting company have large Disk of space. I don't think a normal website would consume so much of space unless it's a video site like Youtube.

[Mr.Panos]

There is always a limit that if you have a higher amount of GB, the host will possibly try to remove you or they will tell you to pay more.

[Michael W. Smith Fan]

I don't think there is such a thing. No matter what plan you choose, you're bound to run out of space sooner or later. This "unlimited space package" sounds like a load of crap to me. Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

[shamzblueworld]

I don't think there is such a thing. No matter what plan you choose, you're bound to run out of space sooner or later. This "unlimited space package" sounds like a load of crap to me. Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

Its not the space actually, I dont think you can run out of space of 10GB at all, unless you are file hosting, or social network maybe. Web files such as scripts do not take much space.
It can be the bandwidth though.

[Jordan]

There is no such thing as 'Unlimited' hosting. Unmetered yes, but Unlimited no.

You do realize that unmetered is the same as saying unlimited?

I just find these hosts to be (for lack of a better word) malicious. Unlimited means no limit. That said if your site needs 4tb of files, I am sure the host will find an excuse to kick your off. These hosts will not let you so much resources that they make a loss out of hosting you. "Unlimited" only relates to Disk space and bandwidth. There are still many other limits in place such as CPU, memory, number of files and some hosts limit the amount of php processes etc. They will have an excuse for kicking you off when they stop making money out of you and the costs of what you use is equal or more than what you pay.

These host suck people in by making them think that they sign up and never have to worry about hosting again and don't have to worry about out growing their plan but that is far from the truth.

Exactly this! I could have not said it better myself.

[Raees]

unlimited is just useless for new sites but u might need it when it becomes like google or facebook

[Bjornar]

unlimited is just useless for new sites but u might need it when it becomes like google or facebook

Yepp! Who would pay for "Unlimited" when they just start out..??

[Rick Ace]

There is no such thing as 'Unlimited' hosting. Unmetered yes, but Unlimited no.

I used to go by that argument too, but it doesn't really matter. At the end of the day, you're offering as much space as the owner needs, but you really can't provide that. What happens if the site goes "viral" and you need several servers for one site? It doesn't happen often, but it's possible. I think it's more responsible to set a certain amount of diskspace and bandwidth. You can offer to increase the bandwidth for free if needed. It's a better approach in my opinion.

I'm also not a fan of assigning unlimited space in cPanel. It's the basis for undesirable activity on the server.

[yashrajkarthikey2]

Its just to write and attract the customers, when they see you are crossing the actual limit they charge you exceptionally high and which is never feasible. So one must opt his own hosting or higher hosting plans after a successful growth. I dont think by the point that any hosting is Unlimited it may be unmetered... So its all about Consumer satisfaction.

[Sam]

It's interesting. We used to have set diskspace and bandwidth limits but in the more-than two years I've been running holderhost, diskspace/ bandwidth hasn't proved an issue. So now we offer "unlimited". The limit, like any other host (including the ones which have caps) is on server resources (but we limit using CloudLinux for that). Diskspace and bandwidth are reasonably cheap.

My opinion has certainly changed, being on the other side. I did consider just upping the limits when we upgraded our shared platform to Cloud SSD but HostGator / EIG have done such a good job at marketing unlimited, that's what consumers expect.

[yashrajkarthikey2]

Its all about high end users, those who get so much traffic that banwidth or so much content that space becomes issue face this problem.

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