Unlimited cPanel hosting, MySQL hosting, Drupal and PHP web hosting?
Perhaps most of the world wide web enthusiasts have already heard about unlimited web hosting, or any words with its equivalent meaning. For most of the people taking advantage of web hosting services, this might be good news, but is this so-called unlimited web hosting service true?
The truth is, there's no such thing as unlimited web hosting. Although companies say so, the term unlimited does not necessarily refer to unlimited bandwidth or disk space. So, what is really the context of unlimited in these services?
In some web hosting companies, clients are given unlimited disk space, but is subject to the web host's approval. Some hosts allow their clients to add as much content as they wish, but not all at once. In other words, although companies say it's unlimited, clients still cannot make use all of those space they could have in just a matter of time. The usual picture would be like, the client uses a certain amount of space at first, and then add more later. But it depends on the host how much space the clients are able to use every time they add new data. Web hosts really need to set restrictions because if not, the company also has to render an unlimited amount of money to buy an unlimited number of hard disks and bandwidth to cope for those clients.
Some web hosting companies allow their clients to have unlimited or near-unlimited disk space, however, those companies might usually state in their TOS, or Terms of Service agreement that the clients cannot use the disk space for just any purpose, also file storage may be limited to file type such as HTML only. In other words, utilizing a huge amount of disk space would depend on the client's purpose, and is subject to the host's rules.
Thus, unlimited is not truly unlimited. If it is, the performance of the sites will be affected, and it would be very unpractical for the company as well. Imagine if unlimited web hosting becomes true. For sure, a lot of people will get hooked to it and take advantage of the unlimited services. Some of these clients might already use an enormous amount of disk space and bandwidth. Other clients then, who share the same space and bandwidth would end up being unfortunate, as the performance of their sites become affected-- running time becomes slow, and other things one could possibly imagine. It would be like sharing on the same pie, the others get the large slices and the unfortunate ones eat what is left.
Nowadays, there are web hosting plans close to unlimited, which is the usage of bandwidth and disk space in thousands of gigabytes, or terabytes. However, most of these services are still subject to hosts' approval, and clients might have, or might not have the freedom to allocate their available spaces according to how they want it to be.
The next time one considers to avail of an unlimited web hosting service, look at what the TOS says. It might actually turn out to be rather costly. Opt for flexible hosting plans and go for those services with fixed disk space and bandwidth-- restrictive in nature but realistic.
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