LOL My websites were looking for a new home. They were on 2 different free hosts with paid-for upgrade options. On one free host, they looked after the paid-for customers, but treated the free users like dirt. As in letting free websites disappear (luckily I believed in backups). Well, they probably thought, it encourages people to upgrade to paid-for. It does - it encourages people to upgrade to paid-for somewhere else. On the other free host, a moderator was rude to me in the forums. He basically said, "What do you expect for free - go paid for", but he added a touch of personal rudeness. What did I expect for free? Well, courtesy costs nothing! OK. I've had 2 prompt, polite and useful replies. After discussing things with my team (purely a formality) you'll have a new customer. Of course, you won't recognise me, because my credit card doesn't say "C0ldf1re". But just look for a new sign-up who expects the earth for $4.95, and, if he doesn't get it right away, threatens to invoke your money-back guarantee!" (What do you mean, you won't recognise me at all, because they are all like that? LOL)
We look forward to having you as a valued customer. And yes, we will not recognise your signup - so that means we will have to be polite to all new customers from now on - geeeze! - lol.
Limited or unlimited really doesn't matter. Just unlimited looks/sounds better but they both usually have the same restrictions. Some have higher restrictions than others so take a look at the TOS and make the comparison there. In my experience using alot of bandwidth isn't going to get you banned. First and foremost is high usage of server resources (ie, memory, processes, etc) which causes servers to be slow. The cheaper the plan, the more accounts on the server. The more accounts on the server, the less server resources you can use. If you don't want a slow website, find a reasonable provider with reasonable plans and prices. It's really not that complicated. You get what you pay for...
You can buy unlimited and it's true there is unlimited but I'm talking dedicated servers not shared, There are many providers that offer unlimited bandwidth as much as your pipe will allow.. which isn't fraud.. Shared hosting is a different story.