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why should I avoid unlimited hosting plans

Hosting your website for your business is one of the most important ways to promote your company. There is a variety of solutions, plans and options available so how do you choose which is right? You may have heard of those "unlimited" hosting plans but you should know that both storage and bandwidth costs money and the "unlimited" plan is either secretly limited or will be flagged once you actually try to use the "unlimited" option. Not to mention that unlimited storage is complete bogus because there isn't a system in a world that is capable of storing true unlimited amount of information. Yes it is true that you can get petabyte storage nowadays for just shy of few million dollars but do you really thing that hosting company wants to pay one million dollars for you to use it on plan that costs only a few dollars a month? Think about it.

So we already know that you have limit on your storage, what about a bandwidth? They say it is unlimited but that means that you are sharing bandwidth resources and also are limited by either of these:

• it is unlimited on paper but your network port runs on 10mbit
• it is limited by bandwidth available to hosting company
• there is hidden quota

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In today's world majority of customers are having access to high speed connection. It seldom takes more than two visitors to max bandwidth if you have, for example, a 10 mbit port. Should you receive three visitors at the same time, your website's performance is already degrading. Of course if any other website on same server receives visitors, the performance degrades even more. With quota, i have seen many websites display "account exceeded quota" even when placed on so called unlimited plans. How unlimited is that?. If you want your website to perform you'll need to pay for bandwidth if you use a lot of it. Being hosted on plan where you have certain amount included and overage is extra will ensure that the hosting company has money to pay for the extra bandwidth needed in times of traffic spike. If you host on T1 connection, your server is slower than single DSL customer but if, for example, you host with Data Crunch hosting specialist, you can stay assured that they will handle spikes generated by hundreds of thousands of visitors without any apparent slowdown. The mentioned company actually sits on three separate backbones in their primary datacenter so they can push data to your customers through multiple connections so single network failure does make your website unreachable. Of course if you talk to the guys at Data Crunch about managed server solution, your website could be hosted in multiple datacenters to increase overall bandwidth and speed even beyond the blazingly fast existing connections