There is a wide plethora of web hosting service providers and the overwhelming majority of them try to drum up new business and attract new customers by offering a variety of promotional offers and discounts. These can range from a concession from the services offered, to the provision of free services such as an unlimited amount of disk space, or an uncapped bandwidth rate. Sadly, it should be noted that these seemingly generous terms often come with strings attached meaning that the consumer is not actually getting quite as generous a deal as they might have first thought.

Many webmasters and industry experts have attempted to better educate the unsuspecting public as to the actual implications and meaning of these terms in an attempt to remove the confusion and ambiguity surrounding them. Web master experts have cautioned consumers that “unlimited disk space” means that whilst the user is permitted to add and expand their web site as they see fit, they will only be allowed to do this is small bursts, and in incremental dosages. Just in case you are wondering, it is the web hosting company and not the consumer who will decide when new content can be added.  Read more...

It has become popular in recent years that cheap web hosting services offer unlimited bandwidth and disk storage. Though this seems extremely appealing and provocative, in general it is not TRULY unlimited bandwidth and disk storage. This does not mean you should throw away that company as soon as possible, it merely means you should seek clarification, calculate your own potential usage, and convey this information to your web hosting provider.

You should know that your hosting company must either pay the data center or internet service provider for every little MB of data that is transmitted from the web server’s computer to your users’ or your own computer. In addition, every MB of data you have stored on a server is consuming hard drive space, similar to your own personal computer. There is no infinite hard drive known to man and this concept is almost physically impossible, even for NASA super computers and the like.  Read more...