To attract new customers many web hosting companies uses a word “Unlimited”. They tell that they will give unlimited hosting and unlimited bandwidth for few dollars per month. New bloggers falls in the unlimited fraud trap, lets find out the truth of unlimited hosting.
Truth about Unlimited Bandwidth
- I bought my first hosting and domain from Dreamhost at $10 per year with unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth. When I bought this hosting plan I had limited knowledge about it.
- After 9-10 months, the traffic on my blog increased and I got an email from Dreamhost to upgrade my account as my blog was crossing the CPU usage limit line.
- I asked them, from where do this CPU usage come, I was told that I”ll get unlimited space and bandwidth. They told me that my blog is using more than required CPU usage and other blogs hosted on my server may suffer due to this.
- They did not listened to me and upgraded my account without asking me. At that stage I thought I could have explored about hosting terms before buying one.
- Many web hosting companies do not tell that with unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth, they will give limited CPU quota.
- As your website/blog will start getting huge traffic, you will be asked to upgrade your account and if you don’t then your hosting will be switched off.
Truth about Unlimited Hosting
Here is a task for you to check is your hosting plan really unlimited or not.
- If you’re using Unlimited Shared Hosting plan, upload some big size files on your server.
- Do it for 2-3 days regularly and in few days you will get an email from your hosting provider that due to increase in traffic your blog is crossing CPU usage, so please upgrade your account.
So, keep in mind one thing that the word unlimited practically does not exists, never get cheated by web hosting scams.
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that was really a helpfull post …….
recommend me a hosting and a domain name provider …………………
Hi Deepak,
For hosting I am using Hostgator and for domain I am using NameCheap. Both are the best.
and what about byethost which is giving free hosting……………..
I recommend you, never ever go for free stuff. After you get this free hosting, you will face a lot of down time and difficulties. Believe me, this has happened to my friend who got 2 years free hosting from Dreamhost.
They gave 2 years free hosting to those who had an account on GeoCities, and when Yahoo decided to close Geocities, Dreamhost announced to give free hosting for 2 years along with the domain to GeoCities users, my friend also moved to Dreamhost free hosting and suffered alot
and later he moved to Hostgator 
Thanks .. I have also heard this kinda unlimited plans from dreamhost even thought of utilizing it .. This article explained the terms clearly
Thanks
CBI [creative blogging ideas ]
Which is better Dreamhost or Hostgator ?
I’ve tried both and according to me Hostgator is better. I am saying this from my own personal experience.
Agreed, hostgator gives rock solid experience for many bloggers. Including me. I recommend hostgator for anytime, anywhere access to get good traffic without fake unlimited deals and commitments.
i am totally agree with u…….
can u tell me we should go for Indian hosting or foreign hosting?????
my some tells me i should avoid Indian hosting…..
according to them they don’t provide service…
is it true?? do yu hv any such experience ???
Indian hosting is good for low traffic sites like business site.
Yes, services are very less as compared to foreign hosting.
Very frank opinion Gagan. I have heard a lot of complaint about Dreamhost. I’m really afraid of the word “Unlimited Hosting”. lOl!
Yes, but if you are growing you can move to VPS that suits many bloggers . If you have some technical knowledge , you can go for Unmanaged VPS which cost around 7$/month .
About Indian host , there are people who goes only Indian hosting and whose center is available near their locality . But the major thing I see is , they are still selling limited service(BW) with huge price and also extra charges for setting up mail exchange for their domain .
Btw , I can be sure that for bloggers , the higher risk of their hosting account is either not recurring the bill or due to high CPU usage
yes bro i am totaly agree with you
we don’t go with free hosting if we want to launch our blog for long term
thanks for wonderful post
Great detailed post Gagan. I do not knew about the problem of limited CPU quota. By now I’ve not problem with my hosting service, yet. Thanks for sharing this info.
Thanks Gagan. I think Hostgator is the best hosting service provider.
Yes even I have fooled by a Indian based Company Called Manashosting. I suggest no one to opt them as webhost. I plan I opted for Rs.25/month, 25GB data transfer and 2.5GB disk space. The first catch in this was, you have to put their adsense codes on your home page both for search and content. The second one was, the worst customer care, they took around 10-12 days for activating my account, once activated, I need to raise ticket for each and everything like PHP was disabled, FTP was disabled, No fantastico installed, for each and everything I need to raise a ticket. The customer executives at their end always give false promises, but do nothing. So PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM IT.
Currently I am using a service called Zomex hosting, which is very good. I have been using it since Feb,2010 and I can say the server was down only 1-2 times, that too maximum for 10-15 minutes. Its cheap too. But again they don’t provide unlimited things. The customer support is excellent here, I have upgraded my account 2 times till now, and the upgrade was done within 10-15 minutes, after payment.
Even many free host provide Ad free hosting
Nice post on web hosting service. I agree that all bloggers need to be aware and careful with the term Unlimited Hosting when selecting a good hosting plan.
Be careful when choosing hosting. But you will a good one someday =)
Interesting stuff, Impressed
Digging out the black side of Hosting companies 
recently i was set down by a indian hosting , becuase of high resource usage , nothing is unlimited , they have this hidden TOS working in place :X
Nice post.I think hostgator is the best hosting company.Bloggers should read terms and conditions when they go for hosting.
hostgator is good , but recently had a bad time with them, as a site in their system was troubling all including me . VPS is must for high traffic site
LOL. Where you using a cache plug-in when this CPU usage issue came up? Hosts like Hostgator are now installing cache plug-ins by default with every
new wordpress installation to reduce the load on their servers.
nice post to discuss. according to me hostgator is quite good….
Hi Gagan,
Your haven’t updated your blog for almost 2 weeks, is it intentional or you busy with something else?
Hi Pradeep, yes I was very busy and now I am back.
The word “Unlimited ” is just for luring
It was wonderful, just love you
I am gonna buy hosting soon and I am planning to take service of Hostgator. Nice post!
Pretty interesting . We need to be familiar with the tactics of these company
Thank twice and analyze before paying for service
Thanks for this post buddy .. I too want to check the same with Hostgator.. You have any idea about it ??
interesting. i recently bought shared hosting at hostgator and as you said the plan includes unlimited space and bandwidth. then i started thinking if this plan has everything., then why they are selling higher plans like VPS hosting… i just googled and founout that the bandwidth they are offering is limited to certain amount of visitors/month. now after reading this i know the ugly face.
To say precisely , Only CPU usage is considered while Account suspension .
This is absolutely correct Gagan.
Haha unlimited word never exists…….
There are not such thing as unlimited web hosting in this world. Everyone should know that. Why this package exist is because lot of people looking for this kind of hosting and search for it.
Unlimited Hosting still categorise as share hosting.
They still a limit just maybe they set a higher feature package among the share hosting only.