We do not set limits on the disk space and bandwidth (data transfer) that we provide in plans that are marked “Unlimited”. We want you to have the resources available to you to build a great online presence.

Even though we want you to succeed, we need to ensure that we’re providing all of our customers with optimum service. As such we do require all of our customers to be fully compliant with our Excessive Resource User Policy/Terms of Service and utilize disk space and bandwidth related to normal operation of a personal or small business web site.

If a customer’s hosting account is found to have violated the client content, excessive resource user policy and/or is storing files for archiving purposes, the contents will be removed and while we make best effort to contact customers before hand, can occur without notice.

3. Excessive Resource User Policy:
Resources are defined as disk space, bandwidth, and/or computing resources (cpu, memory, disk i/o) utilization. **** offers a shared hosting service in which environment customers may share resources with other customers, therefore it is imperative that **** control any excessive usage by customers so that they do not disrupt the service quality of other customers using the same resources. A hosting account is considered using “Excessive amounts of resources” when it consumes 100% of 1 CPU core, and/or 1 GB Memory and/or 20 concurrent connections also known as “Computing Resources”, and/or “Resources”, and/or “Resource Usage”. There are numerous issues that could cause such problems, including but not limited to: cgi scripts, FTP, HTTP, etc. To prevent service disruption for other customers, a hosting account which exceeds the included computing resources will be slowed down automatically for as long as the resources are being overused. **** will make every reasonable effort to notify customer prior to suspension, however, **** may suspend any offending hosting account prior to notifying the customer of the account in the event that service disruption to other customers was/is caused. The customer whom is using “excessive resources” may be asked to upgrade his/her package to a more suitable hosting package, such as but not limited to a premium account, virtual private server or dedicated server. **** will be the sole and final arbitrator as to what constitutes as a violation of this policy. Customers have access to their Resource Usage within their control panel.
What do you think?
I’m already kicking myself basically, but figured to get your honest opinion.
I’d appreciate one anyways.
Maybe you should revisit the seriousness of this topic at some point.
Thanks millions!

P.s.
When examining your shared hosting web page, I noticed that your prices aren’t crazy as far as what your charging.
Perhaps that’s something else you could blog about.
Why web hosts insist on charging $100 plus ultimately for a so-called undersoled server.
Yeah, **** claims that they have an undersoled environment.
But now, I really seriously have to question this.
Thanks again.

I’m sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, there really isn’t any “unlimited” hosting offerings that are truly unlimited in shared hosting. If you need high amounts of bandwidth, your best bet is to look for a dedicated server or VPS plan.

It costs more, but gives you the flexibility to burst traffic without getting your site suspended.

I think you for the article it is enlightening. I would like to know what is the solution, what sort of hosting is good, where can I get true Unlimited pack then?

Our bandwidth allowances are set where they are for a few reasons:

1. Since we operate with high end hardware, a top tier network, and have an extensive backup process (your data is backed up on a minimum of 15 hard drives), the cost to offer large amounts of disk space and bandwidth are much higher than other budget hosts that use cheaper hardware.

3. Offering high bandwidth plans attracts websites that consume large amounts of bandwidth (not necessarily our target demographic of ecommerce and business based hosting). When this happens, we would either have to limit the number of accounts on each server to much lower levels (meaning higher prices to offset) (we already limit this drastically for peak performance), or, the servers would become slower as each server can only push so much bandwidth without encountering performance issues. Either way, you, the client, would suffer.

99%+ of our clients stay under our bandwidth and disk space allotments. Each year we re-evaluate our plans and increase these limits to adjust with our clients’ usage, all the while maintaining a balance to avoid the issues listed in this blog post.

The solution you mentioned sounds like a good plan for your business. Other clients who want to heavily use video use things like YouTube, or a video distribution service, while maintaining their main website with us.