Unlimited Hosting, Limited Advantage

There are plenty of web hosts providing numerous shared hosting plans to webmasters. Some hosts have multiple plan levels to suit even a “single page” website to small & medium size businesses with full ecommerce features. There are some web hosts that also offer Unlimited Shared Web Hosting Plans. So what is “Unlimited Web Hosting” Plan? Let’s digg deep and find out more about the plan and its advantages.

What is Unlimited Web Hosting Plan? Usually, Unlimited Web hosting plan refers to a web hosting plan that offers Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited monthly Disk Transfer or Bandwidth. With more and more web hosting companies offering Unlimited space and bandwidth, the competition has intensified and now many web hosts are offering unlimited domain hosting, unlimited sub-domain, unlimited email, unlimited mysql database, etc as a part of their Unlimited Hosting package. Literally offering every feature with no restristions. These plans are also very competitively priced. One can sign up for such plan for under per month. Such plans are very attractive and mean that the webmaster can venture out with no restrictions whatsoever. But these type of plans are surely unsustainable for any hosting company, so What’s the catch in Unlimited Hosting.

Unlimited Hosting and The Catch, If a web hosting company offers “Unlimited Hosting” plan and every one stores infinite data and attract tens of millions of visitors, then the hosting company would need have infinite number of data centers and servers to meet such usuage and demand. But do web hosts that offer unlimited plans really have such capacity? The answer is NO. It’s technically and financially unsustainable and impossible. So When they offer Unlimited Hosting plan, the host ensures that there is always a way to restrict use. How do they do it? They do it by referring to their plan’s Terms of Service (ToS) and Fair Usage Policy (FUP).

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