The Truth About Unlimited Web Hosting

If you are a bargain hunter like me, who likes to browse the web for hours looking for great savings, then you would think that going for the unlimited web hosting plan, would be the smart choice right? In most cases, your wrong. In the web hosting world, there is no such thing as unlimited because disk space is money and bandwidth is money too. Web hosts’ only goal is to profit off the disk space/bandwidth they have, and allocate a certain amount to web masters secretively. You can say that the unlimited sign displayed on their plan, is sort of like hiding the actual amount of disk space and bandwidth they allocate to your servers because essentially, once your site passes a certain boundary when it becomes big, you are going to start to have problems regarding your web host.

Why they do it? Simply because for the most part, webmasters aren’t going to have websites that are resource hungry and consume 1GB of bandwidth everyday. This isn’t to degrade all unlimited hosting plans because HostGator offers this special package, and their web hosting is still top notch, however, this is to just put it out there, that there is no such thing as unlimited disk space and bandwidth for ANY legitimate web hosting company. Once a site reaches a certain limit to a point where it hogs all the resources on a shared server, chances are, your web host is going to contact you regarding the issue.

For the most part, whenever paying for an unlimited plan, expect a maximum of 15GB bandwidth/disk space, because you know, this is an industry where web hosting companies want to profit 120% for every web server they own; the reason why most web hosting companies oversell and stuff 500 web sites onto a single server.

Although the unlimited plan may have it’s secrets, the unlimited plan is still a great choice if you plan on starting out your first website. You can find coupons on the latest shared hosting offers here. Just be sure to do your research and best of all, read the user reviews on the top web hosts before fully committing to one web host.