Truth and facts about unlimited webhosting
In this article we will try to reveal the truth behind
such words as “unlimited hosting” or “unrestricted disk space” in the
web hosting industry. The main purpose will be to pin point some hidden
and unexpected facts which you might find interesting.
One of the few good web hosting companies
that we trust and who give quite generous web space is this
web hosting company
(especially tailored for beginners), we recommend you to
check them out if you are looking for a good webhosting
plan.
The word unlimited is not as unlimited as you might
expect, and the meaning of this term will change from one hosting
provider to another. First of all, it must sound very suspicious that
for a few dollars you will get unlimited space and bandwidth, but if for
example you will decide to upgrade to VPS then the price will rise
significantly.
What we can suggest is that you read the Terms of
Service (TOS) agreements. It must be specified there what kind of
possibilities you will have with this “unlimited plan”. Most likely you
will see that it is NOT allowed to use those hundreds of gigabytes for
all kind of purposes. Please take a look at the conditions and verify
that they will meet your expectations before you sign up to any
unlimited webhosting plans.
On the other hand, those web hosts that specify
exactly the amount of space they provide usually do not have any
restrictions and sometimes the will advertise "unrestricted disk space”.
One of the reasons that some hosting companies have
“unlimited” hosting plans, is that they know that in fact you will not
use as much web space and bandwidth as you thought you would. As you can
see by yourself the costs for faster internet connections and hard
drive space is in fact decreasing. These decisions to decrease service
pricing are made according to average numbers, which show that the
average user is using a thousand times less storage than he was offered
initially. The same story happens with traffic bandwidth. If your site
has less than a several thousand visitors per day then that also
decreases costs for hosting companies.
The actual problems start to appear when you try to
use “unlimited” service as much as you can, for example by backing up
your gigabytes of information or constantly uploading downloading large
files from your allocated web hosting space.
So, what happens then?
As long as a couple of hundred small websites run on
the same server everything will be fine, but as soon as your website
starts gaining traffic or you will try to upload massive files on a
daily basis then eventually you will be notified about the resources of
server, CPU and bandwidth that you are using. This might make the
hosting service provider ask you to change to another hosting plan or
upgrade your current service to a more expensive one. They do so mainly
because your website slows down both your site and other websites which
are hosted on the same server.
Another reason that might make your site run slower
are database-driven websites that are using PHP, ASP and Perl. Those
languages and several other use much more resources than pure HTML.
Most of the web hosting providers have more than
enough to offer for a new site, if you plan something big and it starts
gaining popularity then you have to be careful and read more reviews for
different web hosting plans before signing up to “unlimited web
hosting”.
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