As the days are passing web hosting marketing and advertising infra-structures are changing rapidly. One of these changes includes the introduction of unlimited space and/or bandwidth. These changes are a way for hosting companies to deceive their customers, as a way to bring in more income. The sad truth is, that you do not always get what you pay for, but these companies hope that you are unaware of this type of trickery.
XeonBD provides a hosting service for more than 5 years and always believes in transparency. That is why this article shows the truth about the so-called advertising nowadays you are facing offering unlimited disk space and bandwidth by many hosting companies at a little price. But they have their TOS (Terms of Services) behind them. If you read thoroughly the terms you can know the nasty truth behind this advertising.
So what exactly are the dangers of overselling Unlimited Space & Bandwidth?
Overselling is a term used in the web hosting industry to describe a situation in which a company provides hosting plans that are unsustainable if every one of its customers uses the full extent of services advertised. The term is usually referred to the web space and bandwidth transfer allowance ( source).
That basically means a web hosting company will sell you a service that it really cannot offer. This can be called false advertising, however, not one person has been able to prove a web host wrong because of three main factors:
- The first reason why no one has successfully revealed a web host wrong that offers unlimited disk space is that the web host will suspend that individuals account as soon as it appears to be using more than the allocated space (usually 1GB) that the web host may have set that you as a customer do not know about.
- Secondly, all web hosts that provide unlimited space and bandwidth will have in their terms of service many restrictions that most customers simply bypass without paying any attention to. These restrictions usually include all types of websites that use up a large amount of space such as the following:
- Backup websites (They will not allow you to take backup of your website even sometimes they won’t give backup service to you too.)
- Warez or Illegal Content websites (You are not allowed to publish these kinds of sites)
- Streaming videos or music (You are not allowed to publish these kinds of sites)
- Downloading software, movies, music, etc websites (You are not allowed to publish these kinds of sites)
- Sites that offer free resources to the public (You are not allowed to publish these kinds of sites)
- Even sometimes they will limit you in the number (inode) of files and their size under your account.
- and so many terms go on…
Truth About Unlimited Bandwidth:
When it comes to unlimited bandwidth you have to be careful about that as well. Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that website visitors can download from a website (source). Most unlimited bandwidth providers will claim they have unmetered bandwidth which can be true but the tricky part is if your website consumes too many CPU resources your account will be suspended. Most hosts give your individual web hosting account a 10% CPU resource limit, but if you go over that limit your account will be suspended. Most customers have no idea how to prevent this from happening, and lack the knowledge of rather or not their type of website is suitable for such a shared environment. As you know, you are sharing the server you are placed on with other individuals just like you. If one person uses too many CPU resources or creates a high server load at any given time, that affects your website as well, which causes downtime or slow response time to your website. Many web hosts that provide unlimited bandwidth will eventually face this horrible factor.
These are the reasons behind the unlimited hosting and transfer offer by most the hosting company which make harassment to the user after buying the service.
We XeonBD as a hosting provider recommend you to stay from this kind of site who are offering this too complex and limited service. As a friend, you can contact us to know any further detail you think you need regarding this factor.
XeonBD is always transparent in its way and will be transparent till its existence with you. Thank you for giving your time.
