Ok. We all know that the hosts promising you unlimited bandwidth, or unlimited storage space will eventually ban your account if you use up too much. But how much do they really give? Has any one had any experiences with any of the unlimited hosts, where they got their account banned, because of using up too much of something that was already supposed to be unlimited? What hosts were you using at the time? And how did they ban you? Did they just tell you that you were using up too much bandwidth and storage space, or did they make up some excuse? Thanks, Kyle P.S. This also applies for hosts that aren't unlimited, but give way more then they can afford to give. e.g. sites that give 2 TB of bandwidth for .50 cents a month.
To be entirely honest, I've never had unlimited hosting, so I'm not sure what the limit would really be. It would depend on how many people are on each server and basically how much you affect the other users hosting. As long as everyone is playing nice together, no one will say anything. The moment you start interfering with another, they'll suspend you.
I have unlimited hosting and it's just that...unlimited! in cPanel, it doesn't count your bandwidth (it tells you how much you've used but doesn't say you've used half of you're bandwidth. It is truly unlimited. They won't ban you're acct if you use too much storage space because it's "unlimited" therefore they can't because it's not against the TOS. Besides on my server there is like 600GB of storage, who honestly could use that much! If they do ban you they either wrote it into the TOS or they aren't doing it legally.
Never go for anything "unlimited", there is no such thing.. The place you get into trouble are with CPU usage, not bw. Ultimately, those offering unlimited everything typically have some hefty fine print that define the limits on unlimited. Again, there is no such thing as "unlimited".
Nothing is truly unlimited, you will get banned at some point. That is a promise, I'm glad you've been able to use 600GB, but as soon as you interfere with the use of other customers they will suspend you. About the TOS, they won't say nothing about the unlimited part, but they will have a provision about CPU usage, and they will find a reason to suspend you. The host can suspend you for any reason, even if it's not in the TOS. The difference is if you get your money back or not.
You won't be for long...even for 6 months...LOL Just bring in huge traffic to your sites or use up much space...the guys hosting you will bring in 4 boots (2 won't do ) and kick you out of the server; cause nothing in hosting is unlimited.
The hosts offering unmetered or unlimited diskspace and bandwith usually have hard disk greater than 250GB , and they must have a TOS located at their site. In that TOS, they will tell , which types of sites are allowed or which sites are not allowed like proxy,warez,adult etc. All the hosts are displaying this types of TOS on their site for the customers. And the customer should read that TOS before going to take account from them Unlimited means, the host will not limit the resource you are using. If you are 100% legal then you will not use more than 10GB per account. Others are just using it for hosting warez content or adult content. Thats why the host is removing the account once it reach the high diskspace. The host will think that the user read the TOS already and is violating the TOS . Those host who provide unlimited or unmetered should have a TOS on their site. Otherwise they will fail like shoutserv.
Hostgator have just introduced unlimited bandwidth on their swamp plan http://www.hostingdiary.com/2007/10/hostgator-upgra.html Andrew
I'm very disappointed that hostgator has to oversell now ... but then again they are much stable than all other webhosts that I've tried. They just might provide something decent.
First of all, hostgator dont oversell. I have talked to the owner before and trust me, he can handle it
Every shared web host over sells.. It's a question of how much one over sells that defines where problems begin.. Over, over selling is what you need to watch out for, not overselling.. Share hosting by definition is oversold. If it was not, you'd be paying 50 times more per month per plan!
lol, are you kidding me telling me hostgator doesn't oversell!? your gonna tell me for $13/month i can get 1 TB of space and unlimited bandwidth? i can't even get a 1tb hard drive for $13/month over one year.
As if they weren't before OK, Look at their reseller plans - see the difference between bandwidth for shared and reseller plans 3000gb bandwidth on shared for 5$ /month & 250gb bandwidth on reseller for 25$/month - Does this look logical ? If they really can handle it as you say. then why don't they offer such big bandwidth for reseller plans ? they no a single user won't be able to use such bandwidth but on a reseller account you can use whatever bandwidth since you will sell accounts until you push your limit of bandwidth. I do know what it takes of CPU and RAM to push 3000GB of bandwidth so I can assure to you you will never be able to really use even 20% of this bandwidth. They are definitely overselling and they can't afford it for real Dedicated servers providers oversell bandwidth as well - overselling is standard in hosting business but the overselling level differs.
A host can not live without overselling in hosting. The actual fact is that , the user will not use such amount of space and bandwidth if he is legal. In the case of hostgator , they are very stable than any other host.There is nothing to worry about it
I always thought of unlimited as, you probablly won't use that much and if you do, your site will crash lol.