Surprising Truth About Unlimited Webhosting You Should Know 

These days most of the web-hosting companies market themselves with unlimited webhosting, and its working out great. Couple of years back (And even now), many webhosting companies have limited hosting. Now, when we talk about unlimited webhosting, that usually means unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. While shopping for a web-hosting, you should definitely look out for these two features, as it will save a lot of headache in near-future. Though, there are few things that you should definitely know about unlimited Web-hosting. Before we move ahead, let me explain what we meant by unlimited disk-space and bandwidth.

• Unlimited disk-space: This feature will let you host unlimited files on your server, and is very important for any dynamic website. Specially if you are running a blog, or a web-service which requires users to upload files, you will be needing a hosting company, which allow either unlimited disk-space or have a very high limit for number of files you can store on your server.
• Unlimited bandwidth : Also known as unlimited data-transfer, this feature will ensure that your website will not be affected when you are getting a very high number of visits. For example, if any of your website content went viral, and you getting millions of traffic, your server bandwidth will not become a reason for your website downtime.

What one thing no one will tell you about Unlimited Web-hosting?

Now, think about ” Is there  anything that could be truly unlimited“?. The planet we stay in, have limited resource, and only known unlimited entity is Sun, which will also die after 5 billion years from now. The fact is, none of us (You and me) will be alive to see the death of sun. Most of the web-hosting companies rely on the same manner as Sun, when they call themselves as unlimited webhosting (unlimited disk-space, unlimited bandwidth).

The value for number of files you can store on your server, and bandwidth which you can consume on your hosting is relatively so high, that it feels like unlimited. Most of the unlimited hosting company have strict TOS and rules to backup their unlimited plan, so that no-one misuses it. Majority of hosting users, never reach to that high-limit defined by these hosting companies, and it feels like we are on an unlimited hosting space.

Unlimited hosting has a very little to do with the number of traffic your website is getting, it has more to do with the resources you are using. Specially, when you are on shared hosting, your website from server management point of view is seen as, CPU or ram you are using, stress your website is putting on entire server and so on. Which can easily be controlled by optimising your website or using caching on your website. For example, any WordPress blog can take advantage of cache plugin and CDN to lower down the server load to a great level. You should also consider adding Cloudflare CDN to block bad bots, and this reducing your server usage.

For any individual who is planning to host a website, it’s important to have a hosting with unlimited bandwidth + storage, but at the same time they should know what are the fair usage policy defined by these hosting companies. In this post,  I will discus some of the popular hosting companies, and their limit for unlimited hosting usage.

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