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Unlimited web hosting with unlimited bandwidth - good or bad ?! (by song) updated on September 23 2007
Unlimited web hosting - Introduction
Some hosting companies provide unlimited web hosting features such as "unlimited web hosting with unlimited disk space , "unlimited email accounts hosting" , "unlimited domains hosting" and so on. Someone in the industry argues that there are no such thing as bandwidth unlimited web hosting and unlimited hard disk space hosting and basically they are plans to trick users! Well, is it true? Let's find out in this article.
Unlimited web hosting with unlimited bandwidth- there is no such thing?
We often heard: "Unlimited hosting with unlimited Bandwidth? there is no such thing!" Our answer: it depends. Why? It depends on what kind of bandwidth you are talking about. With today technology, such as Gigabit Ethernet, wireless technology supports transfer rate up to 14.4 Mbps (source HSPDA at Wikipeida.org ), I truly believe that unlimited bandwidth hosting will hold eventually. why? first of all, bandwidth is just like hard disk, it's getting cheaper and cheaper. Let's took an example on broadband Internet. 10 years ago, the fastest internet services that we could get was 56 kbps modem dial up. Now, we have 6 Mbps broadband internet, 10Mbps Ethernet internet or if you are in Hong Kong, there is a provider offering 200Mbps symmetric Internet services already and it doesn't cost much. It's about US$32 per month, or HK$400. By comparing to 10 years ago, while 56 kbps dial up services cost was about HK$100 or US$12.5 per month and now with extra US$8, I can get a broadband with 10Mbps download and upload speed. Therefore, bandwidth is definitely getting cheaper. It's the same case with hard disk space, (we will talk about it in the "unlimited disk space hosting" section below.) and I don't see any reasons on why hosting companies cannot offer unlimited bandwidth in their plans!
At this point, people may say, "It is just impossible to offer unlimited disk space hosting or unlimited bandwidth hosting plans based on the fact that we all know both hard disk and bandwidth are getting cheaper and cheaper." "why?" I asked.
"It is because people are often greedy and they may end up using all of your bandwidth and hard disk space!" well, no. I don't agree, first of all not always people are greedy. Myself is an example being a non greedy person. Secondly, you can look this unlimited hard disk hosting and unlimited bandwidth hosting on a different way, for example it does not limit a company or individual to grow in their business field. For example,Internet marketing companies, Internet marketers or Internet business persons. Most of them do not have only one website, they have many. Some example is Joseph Murray,an internet marketer from Canada. He has a website called http://7dollarbooks.com mainly selling products in low prices, http://newbiewarriorforum.com for new internet marketers, a website called http://freelancepostwriter.com for helping other internet marketers to do their business and many more, just to name a few. By offering unlimited bandwidth hosting, those Internet marketer do not have to worry how much bandwidth they have left with their plans and they can concentrate on their business rather than worrying about hosting bandwidth or other features etc.
Unlimited bandwidth hosting - Terms and conditions
I basically show you unlimited web hosting with unlimited bandwidth feasible but it is time for you to make up your mind if you are going to sign up with these plans. By reading the hosting providers TOS or Terms of service, you basically understand what type of restrictions they have for this "unlimited hosting plans". Most tricks they play are on CPU and memory consumption from your account.
When talking unlimited web hosting plans, something customers have to be aware of. What kind of terms and conditions, Terms of Service (TOS) does the web hosting company have. Do they restrict on CPU times, memory consumption, file size, file type or any other features?If yes, make sure you read and understand those terms before signing up with them.
With so much competition in the web hosting industries these days,the provider try the best to get as many as customers as possible including controversial unlimited hosting - unlimited bandwidth plans!
Right or Wrong? Unlimited Web Hosting with Unlimited hard disk space
"How much is a 100GB ATA hard disk now?" Does anyone know? Is it, US$100, $50 or $10? If you do a quick search on ebay, you probably find the market price for a decent model of 100GB IDE hard drive (Western Digital, Seagate) is about US$40 - $50. That means 1GB of hard drive worth about $0.40 -$0.50 cents! Well, with today hard drive being so cheap, there is nothing wrong that a web hosting company offers unlimited disk hosting plan to its customers. The people saying no to this unlimited web hosting plan are probably don't want to "invent" some new ideas that benefits consumers? Wait, you are saying "unlimited disk space hosting" benefits the consumers? Yes you heard me right, pal! Why? the consumers can store as much information as they want in their hosting account. Of course those information of computer files have to be all related to their websites. The customers can't use the hosting act as another file storage beside their home computers. "Are you saying you are tricking the customers?" Certainly not! It's because there are Terms and Services around. The customers themselves should read the TOS very carefully and understand every single aspect before making a decision of signing up. It's true these days people (sometimes I did too, but please don't)often skip these pieces of important information before they jump in and sing up for a hosting, apply a personal loan or even credit cards. Thus, be a smart consumer like you are reading this page now, please make sure you read every single words in the unlimited hosting plan agreement before you jump into it.
Unlimited disk space hosting, unlimited bandwidth hosting, are they feasible in conclusion.
I think they are all right with me as long as I stick into the rules and do not abuse the web hosting provider network and server. The only problems are sometimes may be users are asking too much of this unlimited plans and think they can do everything including store a large amount of data in the hosting account and so on.
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