Unlimited Web Hosting – What You Must Know
Current offers from web hosting services today abound with the statements that unlimited disk space or unlimited bandwidth are on offer. Sometimes it feels like hosts are obliged to offer this as part of their hosting plan. To put a common misconception to bed though; there is no such thing as unlimited in terms of web hosting.
Before you commit to such a plan, read the fine prints or the terms of service. Read the exerpts extracted from a web hosting company that offers unlimited bandwidth or unmetered hosting:
User may not:
Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes
All this is in reality is a marketing strategy by the wb hosting services, especially so if there are other hosting providers offering similar packages. The web hosts don’t have to pay anything for doing this either. Those customers that do find themselves reaching the limits of their resources face the very real risk of being suspended or even having their accounts terminated. First of all, pay special attention to the terms and conditions of the web hosting service. If the terms and conditions appear in any way bad, then you would be well advised to avoid that web hosting service. If you are tempted to sign up because of the marketing ploy, then remember others have as well. The upshot of this could be overloaded servers. Three, try and search out web hosting services that do not offer any unlimited resources. At the end of the day, you can ask them beforehand if there hosting plans are upgradeable.
The basic thing is to understand what kind of content you want to host. Sometimes, a “limited” hosting package does has its advantages, as the hosting provider is more likely to adhere to it… until you breach it.
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