Truth behind Unlimited Web Hosting

By: chiragkansoda | Posted: 19th March 2010

In todays competitive market you will find hundreds of web hosting companies and dominate their competitor they provide hosting space at very cheap rate. Now the most common plan that you will find in every web hosting company is "Unlimited Web Hosting". As its name demonstrates that this plan provides unlimited disk space but still there are lots of other things that you need to check before signup. I am very much interested in unlimited web hosting term and suddenly few questions arise in my mind and to make all my doubt clear I contacted their support team.

I asked following question to their support team and take a look at the answer.

(1) Do you really offer unlimited web space or is there any limitation?

Currently all of our hosting plans offer unlimited disk space. Although the word "unlimited" means to have no restriction, the server on which the data is being hosted cannot deal with such terms and needs a numerical number in its place. That is why certain limits are set, even to unlimited features.

My View:

This is Okay.

(2) How many domain I can host on single account?

Unlimited, our all plans offer unlimited domain hosting. So, you can host unlimited domain on your single account.

My View:

This feature I like, but the problem is with IP. All your domains hosted on single account share same IP. So from SEO point of view this will affect your natural search engine ranking. This is where you need to think about.

(3) How many databases do you offer?

There is no restriction in creating database. Actually you can create as many databases as you want.

My View:

Great.

(4) Is there any limitation on database size?

Yes, different plans have different database size. Our basic plan offer 2 GB of database size. So you can create multiple databases but database size must not exceed 2 GB space.

My View:

Very bad, this is what I don't like. If they limit database size to certain amount then you can not host big database drive website. Static sites with hundreds of pages require only KB of disk space. Even if you host 20 static website with 100 of pages it will hardly use few GBs of the disk space.

So, before signup for any unlimited plans you need to take care about database size they offer, if you only want to host static site then unlimited hosting plan is best but if you want to host large Database driven website then it really matter.

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Happy Hosting! :-)
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