What's your opinion on "unlimited" hosting?

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by doni49

My ISP (Comcast) provides 70 MB and 7 POP3 accounts--but doesn't even track the bandwidth usage. If THEY can do it, why can't the hosting companies?

I've been with Comcast for about 4 years now.

It's only been recently that I've been looking for a hosting company--and only because I want to use SQL, PHP and/or CGI.

I bet they would soon cut off the site if it started to use loads of bandwidth, however normally the type of websites that are hosted on isp's don't have fairly high bandwidth levels.

Anyone with a serious business will always go for professional hosting and it's normally these type of sites which use a large amount of bandwidth.

[Adam_F]

Well now days hosts offer like 50 GB bandwidth (for example iPowerWeb, PowWeb etc...). For me this is no different than unlimited bandwidth.

Adam.
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[ashish]

its like telling a customer in a car show room that they can get a brand new ferrari for $1000

[indeks]

It's very rare that an 'unlimited' host will last long. I would steer clear