hello ,

are unlimited bandwidth servers good?

do they work on all sites and stuff? are they fast?

thanks

Hi,

Whenever a web host's site states that they offer unlimited bandwith, make
sure to read the AUP/TOS to get an idea of how their unlimited bandwith plan
works. Webmasters everywhere usually have had troubles with unlimited
bandwith hosts when it comes to heavy bandwith usage.

silvermoon

Why do you think someone will provide unlimited bandwidht. Those who claim they do it usually put some restcritions on bandwidth so don't have unlimited connections.

Unlimited bandwidth is not possible but unmetered is possible bcoz bandwidth is a commodity that someone needs to pay for eventually. The term unlimited is truly a marketing scam and the companies offering unlimited bandwidth do not last for a long time in the market. So, don't prefer such companies and nothing in the world is unlimited.

I agree with James-A's statement, unlimited bandwidth is just a scam to bring in more business. There is no way anyone can accually offer a unlimited amount of bandwidth. The connection is capped somewhere so only a certain amount is physically possible.

The legit "unlimited" hosts sell their service by connection speed. For eg, unlimited 1Mbps or 10Mbps connections will sell at a premium and they are still limited by the size of the pipe. So doing some rough math, a 1Mbps connection should limit you to ~320GB of b/w per month.

People/hosts may say they offer unlimited bandwidth, and that's a mistake believing that there is such thing, there's really only "unlimited" bandwidth on dedicated servers, even then it's not unlimited, a better word would be unmetered, and usually you can only get as much bandwidth as the port speed allows, - e.g a 100Mbps port will be able to handle more bandwidth than a 10Mbps port, so if you need lots of bandwidth, the 100Mbps port is a better idea.

There is also the often misconception of people thinking unmeted/unlimited means you get 1TB bandwidth - this is not true on shared/reseller accounts, it's heavy overselling.

Many people would recommend this - stay away from unlimited/unmetered offers on shared/reseller plans.

No, they aren't. They shut down after a couple of month

also look at restrictions as in max file size and file formats allowed. Unlimited can also mean unlimited bandwidth for files smaller dan 5 MB not having mp3 , wma , wav , rar , zip , tar , tar.gz etc extention. when they claim to have it all unlimited there can just be things like that added to the Terms Of Service / rules.