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The Fact Behind Unlimited Space & Unlimited Bandwidth

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Have you ever seen hosting providers offering unlimited space or unlimited bandwidth in their hosting package? We bet you have seen it. Some hosting providers use those two terms as marketing traps to attract their customers. We use the term “traps” because the term unlimited for space & bandwidth surely don’t exist.

How do we prove it?
Simple, have you ever heard about harddisk with unlimited capacity? :p

No such thing ever existed. Never! So how can the hosting providers claim that they can host your website with unlimited disk space quota?

So how about unlimited bandwidth?
Every hosting providers have their own contract with ISP that provide their internet connections. ISPs have the price for internet connections based on bandwidth. The higher the bandwidth, the higher the price would be. However, no ISP has ever offered a package for unlimited bandwidth.

ISPs offer only unlimited access with limited bandwidth, not unlimited bandwidth. So, how can hosting providers can have hosting packages with unlimited bandwidth while they have limited bandwidth from their ISP?

What if there is really a hosting provider that can provide hosting package with unlimited space or unlimited bandwidth?

If you really insist trying their service then go ahead. To prove their claim of unlimited space, you can simply upload a lot of big files such as linux iso files or even your personal dvd movies. Make sure all those files are legal so you will not break their TOS.

To prove the unlimited bandwidth thing, simply ask your friends to download those files. That, will definitely consume a lot of bandwidth :)

Soon enough, the hosting provider will suspend your hosting account or ask you to get your own dedicated server as your website has taken too much resources from their server.

Now what? What would you do?
You did not break their TOS. You just wanted to use the unlimited space & bandwidth as what they offer in their hosting package but you could not.

What does it for having unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth but in fact it has limit?

After reading this, we hope that customers / webmasters will be able to choose their hosting providers wisely based on their own requirements of disk space and bandwidth and not because fallen in such unlimited space & bandwidth traps.

10 Comments »

Comment by C design Subscribed to comments via email
2008-01-19 16:37:38

Benar – benar mencerahkan, kalau dapat dari orang yang tidak berkepentingan dengan bisnis hosting sih ngga begitu luar biasa, yang menjadi luar bisa pengetahuan ini keluar dari orang yang berkepentingan dengan bisnis hosting.

Cool, memang kejujuran yang utam

 
Comment by dennie Subscribed to comments via email
2008-05-13 22:45:12

Thanks for infonya Bro..keep Posting :)

 
Comment by Hari Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-24 14:32:22

LOL i knew this ages before..

The best thing i could do is that begin my own dedicated server.. Grab a domain name and done.. Never easy, but not too tough either..

When you look for such a site, look for a site with Unmetered bandwidth and space.. The best thing is that look for some big bandwidth and space like 100TB bandwidth and 10 TB space etc. etc.

 
Comment by fendi Subscribed to comments via email
2009-04-01 21:42:57

yep I see Man…

 
2009-04-17 15:34:47

how do you think about unlimited service from [NO SPAM PLEASE], in their web declared if its mean that they provide 10tb space and 100tb bandwith, i just use it for about 3 months on my online radio [NO SPAM PLEASE]

Comment by Cyber Coral
2009-04-17 15:48:05

how much space and bandwidth have you used so far? can you really get as much as they advertised? ;))

2009-04-17 16:58:23

just about 35gb of bandwidth for this April, i hope there is no problem while my sites is going hit listed.

Comment by Cyber Coral
2009-04-18 11:41:00

35GB is still “nothing”. come back here when you reach 100GB ;)

2009-04-18 12:56:07

ehm,,, ok. there is still 12 days to reach 100 gb. may be you want to join my server test ? help us spreading url [NO SPAM PLEASE]
thanks Sir.

 
 
 
 
 
2009-04-27 08:33:01

Huy Guys, nice to meet you again. would you like to take a review on my web stats screen shot in

[NO SPAM PLEASE]

Regards

Ardian.

 
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