UNIXIELHOST Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 For several years, many web host has been offering unlimited storage space and bandwidth but do you actually think it will do the trick? Be honest, I hate hosts offering unlimited because they will put 500-1000 domains on one machine and will cause server CPU spike high and crash the machine which will lead to server maintenance more often. I wish all hosts should be more honest with the words unlimited because most of them will slash you with overage charges if you use it too much. I strongly suggest that host companies who offer unlimited features such as storage space/bandwidth should be aware. I hate and am against "Unlimited". Nothing is unlimited 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlinpa1969 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I tested an unlimited account once, unlimited space and bandwidth........ we put up a feature length streaming movie..... over 120 Minutes and had on average 20 people on the site at all times they canceled the account within 2 days..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIXIELHOST Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 I tested an unlimited account once, unlimited space and bandwidth........ we put up a feature length streaming movie..... over 120 Minutes and had on average 20 people on the site at all times they canceled the account within 2 days..... See what I mean? Nothing is unlimited. Don't fall for their games. These host who offers these are dishonest! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keliix06 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I tested an unlimited account once, unlimited space and bandwidth........ we put up a feature length streaming movie..... over 120 Minutes and had on average 20 people on the site at all times they canceled the account within 2 days..... Did you own the copyright to said movie, or were you breaking the law? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlinpa1969 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I own the copyright, it was 2 hrs of watching ducks.... really boring stuff that was recorded JUST for this purpose.. you notice I said Feature Length meaning over 90 minutes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 A better way to word it would be FREE. eg Free traffic - This does not imply limits. It simply means that traffic is never invoiced. Cheers, Paul 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickendippers Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I'm against unlimited space/bandwidth. But there's nothing wrong with unlimited email address and domains; I can't see anyone abusing those 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 it was 2 hrs of watching ducks. had on average 20 people on the site at all times How did you get 20 people at a time to watch that movie? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redsign Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 How did you get 20 people at a time to watch that movie? They must have been quackers... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickendippers Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Taxi for Redsign 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNIXIELHOST Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 I'm against unlimited space/bandwidth. But there's nothing wrong with unlimited email address and domains; I can't see anyone abusing those I agree ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e[X]treme[Z] Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I tested an unlimited account once, unlimited space and bandwidth........ we put up a feature length streaming movie..... over 120 Minutes and had on average 20 people on the site at all times they canceled the account within 2 days..... Wow.. that's a good way of testing... did u actually watch it.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Well no matter what hosting you take you SHOULD ALWAYS read their terms of services and AUP. even with unlimited space/bandwidth they will still have a fair usage clause somewhere in the TOS/AUP. All Unlimited Space means that you can use as much as the server space as you want without further charge (not many people can use the full server space). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlinpa1969 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 How did you get 20 people at a time to watch that movie? GOOD friends.... LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannes Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 a pro for unlimited traffic: my datacenter give me 2tb per month with my serverplan, after i get more free, but reduced to 100gbit bandwidth - with option to pay a lump sum to get another tb with full bandwidth. a pro for offering unlimited space: include amazon s3, sell first, let your customers pay the plan first, and pay self only what and if they use it (i´m not hosting 1000 domains on a server ..) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 With one unlimited space, bandwidth and add-on domain shared hosting account I could host the entire WWW if it were truly 'unlimited" but they never are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I guess sites should try to reinvent the way that they would like to attract potential users so that they would get negative feedbacks eventually. I never offer unlimited space/bandwidth as this means you could be paying $100 a month for your server and you offer unlimited account for only $20 a month, so in effect this client for $20 could fill the whole server, so you are losing $80 a month. i offer unmetered and in whm set the space/ bandwidth high and if a client reached this and their is available server space i will increase his space etc. this way everyone is happy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I never offer unlimited space/bandwidth... i offer unmetered and in whm set the space/ bandwidth high and if a client reached this and their is available server space i will increase his space etc. I fail to see the difference, except you hear about it before they use it all. Unlimited/unmetered is a semantics game. To claim you can't have unlimited but can have unmetered without limits amounts to the same thing: no limits. We don't offer either. It attracts abusers as well as customers that would leave you just as soon as someone offers the same thing for $0.50 less per month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I fail to see the difference, except you hear about it before they use it all. Unlimited/unmetered is a semantics game. To claim you can't have unlimited but can have unmetered without limits amounts to the same thing: no limits. We don't offer either. It attracts abusers as well as customers that would leave you just as soon as someone offers the same thing for $0.50 less per month. unmetered, we have control, the user is given a set amount of space/bandwidth, which is usually amble, if the user reaches this full amount then if their is any spare space on the server we will increase this, if their is no space available we will tell the user, this was we are not telling them that we are giving them unlimited space/bandwidth. in 10 years we have never had to increase any users resources. the max we give is master reseller 125GB Space and 600GB Bandwidth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcraedesigns Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) I stopped that garbage a while back, you get what you pay for. My clients pay for service and reliability, not a million gigabytes of storage, nuff said. Also I noticed you said 10 years, under another domain/business name? easyasabc-hosting.com was created on 11-27-2006, thats a few years, but not ten. Edited July 1, 2009 by mcraedesigns 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I fail to see the difference, ... Unlimited/unmetered is a semantics game. Unlimited is unachievable but unmetered is just unmetered. No one counts the bandwidth used. It does imply that the limit is maxing out the pipe but one unlimited account could host the whole internet if the account had unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disc space and unlimited add-on domains. But no one has all that, so there is no such than as an unlimited account/plan. That type of advertising is false. Cheers, Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 No one counts the bandwidth used. Order one, and try pushing a lot through it. From sharing the pipe, to limiting CPU cycles, to throttling...there are limits imposed on every one I've ever come across. It's a suckers bet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austdata Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 but unmetered is just unmetered. No one counts the bandwidth used. I can get unmetered bandwidth that I can max out 24/7 but that's me, or any other host. I wasn't talking about what customers can get with that. It is limited by what I can get out of it over a month. Therefore selling it to clients as "unlimited" is lying and fortunately forbidden in this country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minadreapta Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 let's pretend unlimited bandwidth and disk space really exist. this is pure ignorance: people thinking their website(s) are needing only bandwidth and disk space, and once they get this they think they can host the entire internet on that space, right? as if a computer or a server was relying only on these 2 things to work... a server needs a processor (or more) and some RAM in order to run, not speaking of software and processes... they'll never get this unlimited because it's physically impossible. so now: how unlimited would that be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannes Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 ask this amazon and sun and google. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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