Is Unlimited Hosting Really Unlimited?

Unlimited hosting might be a utopian vision for the internet geeks but yes, it does not exist in the real world for now. What idea do you get when somebody offers you unlimited hosting at a reasonable price? Wow! Unlimited? Now I can store a ten of thousands of movies in HD, legions of high graphics games, high-quality photos and what not! But BEWARE! As I told you there is no such thing as unlimited hosting and storage. The hoax definition of unlimited hosting is that a web hosting company facilitates unlimited disk storage, unlimited data transfer with an addition to domain name capacity.

Why is Unlimited Hosting not Unlimited?

• Unlimited until Over-use
This does not make sense. Right? Unlimited means what is NOT limited but what Unlimited hosting’s companies do is that they apply restrictions when the user starts touching the limits that they have not told you openly (as they might include anything in Terms & Conditions) before buying the unlimited plan.

In terms of a layman, suppose your hosting company agrees to provide you unlimited storage but as soon as you reach their red level (of course, they have not told about this before buying plans), which depends on the company, they will try to choke the CPU of your laptop to slow it down. Some companies even shut down their users on touching the lower limit of their red mark.

So, this is how actually it works!

• A marketing gimmick!
So the companies who claim that they provide unlimited hosting are surely imposters: they pretend to be superior to all the companies who are truthful towards their customer about their limited data storage but in reality, such companies are tricksters. They need money and that is why they have come across using words like “unlimited” to lure the innocent customers. They have continued the practice even after objections have been made by other limited hosting companies in the online market.

Such unlimited hosting sites such as HostGator plays a marketing gimmick to pay you more than what they won’t deliver as promised. “Unlimited” now has been associated with limited hosting sites as well so that more customers are lured into buying the hosting plans. These companies could trick you by tagging their plans as “unlimited” to make the money out of your hard earned money.

Moreover, there are other downsides of unlimited hosting sites as well. It shares the server with no dedicated source at all. It is not as secure as what you assume: it can never be as secure as your own server. There are many companies who once made the trend claiming that they are as secure as your personal server but fortunately such practices are now checked in the earnest.

The future of Hosting

The online market is dumped with rubbish but simultaneously you can find a space online where everything is clean and trustworthy. The future of Unlimited hosting relies on the acceptance that what “unlimited” they claim is actually not unlimited in the real sense. It could be a necessary step to uplift the trust of the customers towards the web hosting and web hosting services in the future.