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priyanka
Hi guys,
Still there some people who are offering unlimited diskspace, bandwidth ? When it's impossible why do they claim this?
Griffin
Unlmited disk space is a lie....When they say Unlimited bandwith you should ask them if they mean unmetered bandwith (which some legit companies offer) otherwise this too is usually a scam to get your money...
Corey Bryant
It is a marketing gimmick. I have seen some hosting companies that offer this. And they put over 1,000 sites on a server. If any of those sites ever decided to take them up on an offer - they would be in grave trouble
redbrad0
I agree with Corey. Alot of company's will offer this but can not handle if they got a bunch of websites that took them up on it. What most of them think is playing the odds. Its really a way to get people to sign up. Alot of people think they need a ton of bandwidth and a ton of disk space but hardly use any. I have a customer that pays a arm & leg a month for unlimited bandwidth on his site and he uses under 2GB of bandwidth.
taihnd
Normal web sites only take up an average of 1GB of Bandwidth...thats my 2 cent in this
redbrad0
What do you call normal?
taihnd
just a simple web page with some flash...streaming media...
skyxliner
nothing is unlimited. especially disk space.
Website Rob
I bought an unlimited hard drive once, but it needed an unlimited cord to plug it in. Since I didn't have one the hard drive was useless and I threw it away.

That's pretty much the way to look at any Hoster offering 'unlimited' anything on a Server. No such thing so throw the Hoster off your list of potentials.
Rami
There is nothing unlimited in the world and for sure if its not exist in bussiness. well most of the big hosting company offers unlimited services
unlimited disk space, unlimited dat transfer(bandwidth) bla bla bla, lets say for example they give in reall 500 MG, they know that most people dont use
this Great disk space, so they offer unlimited diskspace knowing that whatever you do you cant get your disk full and if you did in that moment they increase your site disk space, So my advice here for people who are is to use what ever they can from the disk space for who are offering unlimited desk space isnt that a good deal
cparvin
Our Reseller provider calls it unlimited. We offer a large (100M 1gig) site as our cheapest and basic site for only $1 per month (paid annually). We then scale up to "SuperSize" with 10,000 MB, 10 Gig Bandwidth. As noted in other replys, this is probably too much for anyone. We charge $20 Per Month + $5 Setup Fee. This is our highest priced site.

We have only one client that has approached the 1 gig limit on our basic site!

I agree, most of the "unlimited" (or what ever you want to call it) sites are nothing but advertising ploys (even ours!).

Even though We have "Unlimited" from our provider, they require that we have only "zip" files for download. They suspended one of our accounts for having a pot load of e-books for download, even though it was a e-book marketer. We had them clean up and zip their wares and the provider was happy. He was worried about the bandwidth of massive downloads.
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