Comments on: Unmetered and Unlimited Space and Bandwidth

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:47:45 +0000

Yahoo offers “unlimited” space and bandwidth etc…but after about 20gb you get a “disk space error; please contact yahoo customer support” message on the ftp client. Then you contact Yahoo and their tech support says that they will increase your allotted disk space (it should be unlimited; however they flag anyone going above a certain level of usage), but nothing ever gets done. I think there is an unspoken policy at yahoo to just simply ignore anyone that goes above their unofficial limits. In summary, don’t trust Yahoo’s unlimited disk space marketing rubbish.

By: Karthick

Karthick — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:38:31 +0000

Add to this, all the spoofs! There seem to have sprung up loads of sites which pretend to offer free unlimited or high BW/space but the ‘Registration Complete’ page is actually the farthest you get!! been thru half a dozen of these already!!

By: To Nik

To Nik — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:19:48 +0000

Well, if you thought your site was big enough to require “unlimited” bandwidth, doesn’t that kind of make you a hypocrite? You should have just gone with a host that has a reasonable traffic restriction based on what your site needs. If you get more traffic than allowed, just run your own ads to pay for the bandwidth, which is basically what T35 free does (and how some free hosts can offer unlimited bandwidth).

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:18:51 +0000

I don’t say that it’s the site’s fault. I say that it’s the hosts fault that does allow such things in their policy.

By: To Nik

To Nik — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:45:11 +0000

Sorry, but I don’t necessarily see how setting up the Youtube clone on an unlimited host is abuse. If the host says unlimited that means the site can use as much resources as physically possible. If the host goes out of business, it’s the host’s own fault for being stupid.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:57:05 +0000

LOL yeah unlimited traffic = unlimited slow server!!

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:57:47 +0000

No problem Ryan. It’s just different ways of limit the same service, weather it’s by file size or space. Some people have hundreds of html pages to host and it makes sense to go with unlimited. I just find that these days almost everything is pretty much sold as *unlimited* and usually done in a bad way (like limiting cpu usage or something). Some of the most popular paid hosts around offer 500gb-10TB of space for $5/mo. They do it with a full intent to terminate you as soon as you come close to using that limit, or if you start using more then your fair share of cpu, etc..

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:54:27 +0000

Whoops, sorry if I sounded like I was bashing T35 free last post. I didn’t mention my next point: as with all things in life, the amount of disk space and bandwidth for getting any site hosted is ultimately limited by how much the webmaster is willing to pay for it. Webmasters, if you want no restrictions, you must pay the true price for what you use.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:00 +0000

Yeah, such as T35’s free hosting. Not only is the file size limited to 0.5 mb, but there’s also a rule in the fine print that you must have at least 2 HTML pages for every 1 MB of space used, so if your site has lots of binary files linked to few pages, you can forget hosting there, even if the binarys are under the file size limit and are not the result of splitting larger files. Therefore, it is not really unlimited because they limit what you can put in there.

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:35:18 +0000

And you think paid hosts like ipower truly offer 500gb of space for every customer? In fact, one of the largest paid hosts around (i won’t nane names) offers 1TB of space for $5/month. With 1TB we can almost fit our entire free web hosting business on a $5/mo account The point is that other features are limited to provide unlimited or un-metered features.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:06:16 +0000

There is no such thing as unlimited. If there was true unlimited webspace and bandwidth for only, say, $5/month, why wouldn’t sites like Yahoo! host with them?

By: Paul Host

Paul Host — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:59:08 +0000

Thats a great discussion buddy

By: Alex Melen

Alex Melen — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:44:51 +0000

Good point Nik! There definitely has to be some kind of 24/7 site monitoring and screening when you offer any kind of unlimited service. Especially when you are offering a free unlimited service! The host that you were using, did they offer unlimited or was it just a high number (like 1TB bandwidth, etc..)?

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:21 +0000

Almost all paid hosts offer now unlimited disk space and/or bandwidth. But here is a situation that happened to me before about 6 months. My sites that I had on hostingzoom (this is bad advertising) returned me “500 internal server error”.
I contacted the company through email and I didn’t get straight answer of what had happened. After a week I contacted again but again no straight answer with the problem.
So I decided to call to US and lucky me I have skype so I called without charge (have in mind that I am from Greece). Then they informed me that someone had built a youtube clone site and crashed the servers.

So IS THIS MY FAULT ? You should say that there is not unlimited bandwidth and we do not support Youtube clones or something like that ! I was very angry because 1. I had not information for about 1 month and 2. There was not a quick and dirty solution from them.
Supposing that someone had an on-line shop or something like that He could be financially ruined.