lol of course not, only infinity exists. Unlimited is a construct we make up to conceptualize infinity. But that info doesn't help you... Usually a unlimited host will oversell so way more people are using the service than should be. If it's actually "unlimited" the price is usually a bit higher. bandwidth costs a lot more than storage, so if you're being offered 1GB storage and unlimited bandwidth: BEWARE
There is no such things as unlimited. At some point you will get capped or slow down so much from everyone burning the BW that things will stop working.
Unlimited hosting never exist. No hosting company can provide unlimited space & unlimited bandwidth. It's just a marketing strategy.
"Unlimited" can mean "don't worry about webspace and traffic more". It can't be fully understand like "nothing limit".
Why don't you do a search for unlimited...it's been covered many times. All you're hearing here are biased opinions not proof, or the truth.
"Unlimited" is just a marketing strategy of many web hosting providers. There is no such thing as unlimited.
Lol... no it's not. But I see your company offers unlimited disk space, data transfer and databases for $2.99/month. So you are telling me I could host this site with you for $2.99/month... I would need roughly 50,000GB of transfer per month as well as approx 15TB of disk space and about 300GB of databases (doing about 5,000 queries per second). Does that still fall under your $2.99 unlimited plan? Have you approached larger companies to offer your unlimited plan to them? You could save companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc. millions per year if they went with your $2.99/month unlimited plan.
But that's a bit of a non arguement. Just because they're offering no limits to their bandwidth or diskspace (both V cheap commodities for a larger web host) they aren't offering unfettered performance. You could probably host this site easily on an "unlimited" plan in terms of diskspace and bandwidth required, but I doubt you'd get the performance you wanted/needed, and you'd likely compromize the terms related to CPU and RAM usage. I've no problems with companies offering unlimited diskspace and bandwidth because I can easily see how it could be provided, but my problem is the way it is sold and the complete lack of understanding by those that purchase it (or criticise it) of exactly what is on offer. Performance is always going to be a limitation when sharing a server, irrespective of how much diskspace or bandwidth you'd be allowed to use. These restrictions on a fair share of CPU and Bandwidth are not unique to unlimited hosts - all hosts have them - and these restriction are not directly related to how much space or bandwidth that a site uses.
A host isn't going to allow you to fill terabytes of disk space and saturate a 150Mbit connection 24/7 for $2.99/month even if it used no CPU. If that were the case you could simply use an unlimited hosting plan as a remote backup destination. Imagine if Apple decided to back up all their employee computers nightly to it as well as back up their iCloud data center nightly to it. I mean it's unlimited so transferring and storing millions of TB of data should be fine, right? Even if you needed to store a trillion TB of data for some reason, that is no where remotely close to infinity. All for $2.99/month... Quite a deal.
And how would that be possible? The CPU is needed to manage connections, make decisions about retrieving date, makes caching decisions, controls the transfer of data. You simply couldn't upload, store, or manage that amount of data without impacting on the CPU or RAM. You're mixing up a non-existant theory with reality. What wedsite have you ever hosted that takes up TB of data. Not with any hosting provider that I've ever seen. Every host who's Terms I've checked (and I've looked at a LOT) only allow their customers to store files on the server that are directly used by their web site. Many also specifically disallow things like zipped files, media files (MP3, WMV) and executable. Theory meets reality again, and it simply wouldn't be allowed on ANY host, not just an unlimited host....unless they were offering specific remote backup services. There you go again. I've never seen a web site that is a Trillion TB in size. In fact, I doubt there's even that much data stored in the whole world at this time (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/02/14/total-amount-of-data-stored-2007/1). You can make up any figures you want, but unless you take the real-world into account where things like performance, CPU, RAM, redundancy and other factors that actually exist and are an important part of any scenario, then the arguement doesn't hold water. For over 99.999% of web sites (made up figure) "unlimited" hosting is a viable proposition because the reality of how much space they take up and how much bandwidth they consume is inconsequential compared the facilities most large hosts have available. Don't misunderstand me, I'm sure that some of the "unlimited" hosts out there are not capable of providing anything like "unlimited" and it is just a scam - not "marketing" but ignorant scamming. But for larger hosts with great infrastructures of servers, SANs, and good internet connections, "unlimited" is possible to the extent that it would be impossible for any single site to consume all the resources they had available to them.
Er... how about the one you are on right now? I can't imagine any "unlimited" hosting plan that could handle even a small *part* of this site. Keyword Tracker: http://tools.digitalpoint.com/tracker It's database alone comprises over 500,000,000 records (and growing every day) and that database currently takes over 50GB. Digital Point Ads: http://advertising.digitalpoint.com/ It's database is currently over 1,200,000,000 records (and also growing), with the database taking around 120GB. I'll be an unlimited hosting plan wouldn't even have the disk space to store the logs from our web traffic (much less actually serve the traffic). Our Apache web logs average about 12GB per day (we currently delete logs after 4 days since it's not practical to store them for too long). This site takes multiple terabytes and we don't have any sort of executables, media files. zipped files or anything else like that. So no, they aren't made up numbers that have no basis in reality... We are actually looking at upgrading some equipment that would bring our disk space up to 65TB (and it would ONLY be for this site only). What has no basis in reality is an "unlimited" hosting plan of any sort (especially one for $2.99/month). Now if you want to call it, "Unlimited as long as you don't use that much"... then sure.