Hi, I would like to post some info about the unmetered bandwidth and space most of the web hosts are offering these days and how to be smart and get the perfect plan to suit your needs for a cheaper price. Assuming your web page is 50 KB in size. Hence, 1 Visitor makes 50KB of Bandwidth usage. If they visit your website again in popular browsers like Firefox, Opera etc, which store many of the images in the browser cache for the images to load, only 50% of your bandwidth is consumed. Actually 30%, but lets just assume 50%. So now, you have about 100 visitors a day giving you 200 page views. You are hosting only 1 single website which gets about 3000 visitors a month and 6000 page views. 50 Kb x 3000 = 150000 KB is your usage for visitors. 25 Kb x 6000 = 150000 KB is your usage for page views. Total usage = 300000 KB = 3000 MB = Aprox. 3 GB a month However, we're just assuming 50KB a page. Most of the pages are about 25-30 KB (with images).So you need only 3 GB Bandwidth and count +2 GB to be on he safer side of social media traffic etc. You need a plan which has 5-10 GB Bandwidth and about 100-1000 MB Space (Depending on what you store) and you end up paying $10 a month for some unmetered plan where as won't even use more than 5 GB!! You can get the 5-10GB Bandwidth plan for $3 a month, why pay $10 a month for the same thing? Unmetered plans are good for unexpected traffic from social media sites, but they are never better than the limited ones. Now you have 10GB Bandwidth given to you by the host, you can 100% use it! Regardless you get unexpected traffic from social media sites, or server load. 'Unmetered' is not only limited to 'Unmetered' or 'Unlimited' Hosting, it also means offering large diskspace and bandwidth for the price of a cheese burger! 100 GB Space and 1000 GB Bandwidth for $4.99 a month is OVER SELLING! A perfect price for 100 GB space and 1000 GB Bandwidth should be about $70-100 a month. Hence a 10 GB Space and 100 GB Bandwidth plan should cost you $8-10 and not $1/month! Be smart, don't choose unmetered! Regards, Monty http://limespace.net
It's true of what you said. Now tell me why large company like nocster offer unlimited bw.. You can always add extra few bucks for unmetered dedicated server either on 10mbps or 100mbps uplink.. Now Let see what unmetered disk space is.. I'ts true that disk space in not unlimited and it should be paid. Look at the ToS again.. Some hoster dont allowed file storage. Although you have unlimited space account would you use that much? Although there is no unlimited disk space but the hoster can always add another disk after another to support more on server... so why not? Extra disk space is quite cheap nowdays..
Unlimited is not really unlimited in fact. Unlimited storage come with a limit stated clearly under ToS! So there is always an advantage to go with limited storage plan, at least you know clearly what you are going to have. However, though I agree with Monty but nowadays unlimited storage is so cheap, a budget hosting like webhostingpad cost only $1.99/month or Lunarpages $4.95/month. So usually I will rather go for more space albeit there might be a little expensive (in the case of Lunarpages). Amount of storage and bandwidth may be confusing but it is definitely enough for "normal" use (hosting a few number of sites with a few hundred uniques/day). Just my opinion..
I think Unmetered is unwatched disk space usage, it does not guarantee that you will have a certain amount of space, once the servers hard drive is full nothing can be done, unless the host does a upgrade onto the server or move clients to another. I have actually had webhosting on a full server and it wasn't pretty. Hes probably right that you won't use as much bandwidth, but it is nice to see that you will have more then what you need incase of your websites growth. As for me I put my vps customers on a dedicated 100mbit connection after/during the third month for free.
I'm sure many web hosts offer an "upgrade" option. You can upgrade your hosting account by choosing a higher package which is just a few bucks expensive. But what's better than seeing your website grow and make money?
With regards to unmetered and unlimited bandwidth, these plans are great if you don't want to incur overusage with a regular metered plan.