its just a scam like every other host. unlimited resources, but limited to cpu and ram usage. a website that uses more than 30gb bandwidth should use more cpu resources!!
Now why would someone think there is a catch when a hosting company promises more bandwidth and disk space than a dedicated server can handle for $5/month for a shared hosting account with a 1000 other clients all on the same server?
You are limited with the number of the Inodes, CPU Usage, and those things can be found on the Terms and conditions. make sure to read them before you buy and hosting plan.
well, the way I work is...I provide my clients with hosting. So I have taken a hosting account with bluehost and all my websites (10-12 websites) are under one account. Well, none of the sites are flashy or consume bandwidth. bUt still am curious...do you guys see any trouble in near future....
Possibly. Having 10 to 12 websites on one account can consume a fair amount of server resources if they are dynamic sites. If this happens at best your account will be throttled slowing down all of your sites. And the worst case scenario would be for Bluehost to terminate your account with no notice if your usage is excessive. If your sites are static you shouldn't have any worries.
So far I have never had any problem on storage or traffic, with my "unlimited" shared hosting plan. There are limits for sure, once the sites get slower it might be the time to move to a VPS.
You can host as many website as you wanted. Their "unlimited" is only virtually meaning. They have a limited capacity that most websites never reached. What do you think about 50 gigabytes in disk space and 50 terabytes for bandwidth. Does it sounds familiar? If your website reached those limits then it is bigger than being hosted in a shared environment. You will be forced to upgrade an account most of the time.
Personally, I wouldn't use Bluehost for hosting which depended on my reputation or business. From my first hand experience Bluehost is not a reliable web hosting company.
"Unlimited" doesn't exist. They may offer "Unlimited" disk space but your disk space is really limited by the size of the disk in the server, you can't buy unlimited space hard drives. Your host could add more hard drives or have a RAID array but it's still not true "Unlimited". However, I do believe you can offer "Unlimited" or "Unmetered" bandwidth. If you have multiple bandwidth providers with lots of bandwidth, or you buy your IP transit as 100mbits unmetered then you can offer "Unmetered" bandwidth. However, you will find that most hosts have an acceptable use policy that don't allow you to use your hosting for video hosting, high bandwidth sites. Also, you will find they have an acceptable amount of resources you can use. Some hosts have you can only use 30% of your allocated resources.
Hi, I'm the network manager at Infinity Cloud and our unlimited package mean you get unlimited space as long as there is disk space on the server, however CPU and Ram are limited to just 2.4% on average before the account is suspended. I'm unsure on how bluehost operates but i thought that bit of info may help.
We can never provide an unlimited hard drive for our servers so it would not be possible to have fully unlimited however should a server be running out of space we will shedual a hard drive upgrade for the server on our next maintenace. However we don't suggest having large sites on this package mainly due to stability large sites will use more RAM and CPU.
With SANs (Storage Area Networks) you can provide virtually unlimited amounts of diskspace - just add more SANs when required - but no host is going to give you all that space. It costs them 10's of thousands of dollars to implement these system and you aren't going to get to use all of these resources for $5 per month. Same with unlimited or unmetered bandwidth. Every GB you transfer costs the host money. They hope that the law of averages works in their favour and that the (very very) occassional site that does use a lot of bandwidth is paid for by all the other users. Unmetered bandwidth is seen to be more "honest" but it isn't really any better than unlimited. Some hosts restrict the network port speed that the server is connected to, and I've even heard of hosts who offer 1Gbps network ports on the switch but who then restrict the trunks on the switch to 10mbps or 100mbps. The result is that the client (on a dedicated server) gets a 1Gbps connection being displayed so they are happy. However, there are 23 other servers on the same switch who also have 1Gbps connections and with the trunk ports limited to 10Mbps or 100Mbps the users can't take advantage of the network port speeds offered but no law has been broken (unless you count honesty and morals as being the same thing)....the client got a 1Gbps network port connection. Some of the worse examples of dishonesty is hosts who offer "unlimited" bandwidth in all their sales gumph then say that "unlimited" is actually a 10mbps or 100mbps connection...if it's 10mbps or 100mbps, or even 1gbps it can't be unlimited. As has been said, with shared hosting there will always be some sort of restriction. Some hosts are honest about it, some try to hide it or don't define it clearly. CPU and RAM usage is something that's relatively easy to monitor and restrict for individual web sites on most operating systems or web servers. The very nature of shared hosting means that lots of sites share a server. Even where CPU and RAM usage isn't restricted, sites that would normally require high resource usage may run slowly because the operating system will share CPU resources amongst all the sites that require it. The result is that if you have a high-resource-requirements site and then put it on shared hosting you're not always going to be decent performance. When there is a maximum CPU or RAM usage restriction, different hosts treat it is different way. Sometimes the limits are just that - an absolute limit on what you can use (i.e. not matter how hard you try your site will never be able to consume more than that max limit) - while others are given more flexibility but if you start to use more than the set maximum your host is likely to close you down or insist you upgrade. With the first one (absolute limit) you're unlikely to ever be shut down for resource over-usage but your site's performance will suffer with slow-downs or dropped connections if it is very busy. The second one will give you more flexibility but with the very real possibility that your site will be suspended without warning and you will be forced to upgrade your hosting. Make sure you always know what the CPU and RAM limits are, and more importantly, check on how they are applied. Finally, as many people have said, set realistic expectations. You will only get true unlimited when you pay for it. If you pay $5 per month, expect $5 of service. Think of it like a shop. As a shop owner, if someone spent $5 with you, how much personal attention (support) would you give them and how much would you allow them to take from your shop (resource usage) before you put a stop to it. $5 isn't much, and the profit margin from that is worth around 30 seconds of a support reps time per month. If you want first-class service and performance all the time you need to pay for it.