"Unlimited" and The Web Hosting Industry

by Jake Brown - Date: 2006-12-11 - Word Count: 274 Share This!

A number of web hosts in recent years have started advertising "unlimited" disk space, or "unlimited" transfer. As people became more and more aware that this was effectively impossible to offer, they changed it to "unmetered", which in the majority of cases is equally bad.

A web host which offers you unlimited disk space is one you had better stay away from. When was the last time you saw a hard drive with unlimited space? You haven't. Hard drive space is cheap, but it's not cheap enough to just give it away. Hosts which are offering unlimited anything are generally lying to you.

Unlimited bandwidth, is just as dirty. There's only one pipe in to your server, therefore there's only one pipe worth of bandwidth out. Your maximum transfer is really just the speed of that pipe, times the number of seconds in a month, per month. The single exception to this "stay away from unlimited" rule is the usage of the word "unmetered" with reference to bandwidth. Unmetered bandwidth usually means you get dedicated access to a line in to your server, usually 10mbps or 100mbps. These have limits of about 3TB and 30TB per month respectively, but are not measured on a burstable basis like the metered plans would be. These plans simply mean at any point in time, you cannot transfer more than 10mb or 100mb, however, the host does not measure the total of which you transfer.

How can one avoid hosts with unlimited offerings? Simple, if the host is offering you "unlimited" of something which cannot be unlimited, or costs additional money to offer, the host is flat out lying to you.

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