pastilles
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Well, as you've just seen how long this thread can get just by explaining to users like you why the term 'unlimited' in HostGator, and bigger companies, exist.
They use the term 'unlimited' in a general field. They obviously don't literally mean 'unlimited' as in, i've got a 1TB HDD, but i'm going to let you use 200TB for your site. Unlimited to them, is Hardware Upgrade. When they notice their User Usage is about to hit the max. their Servers can handle, they upgrade their hardware, buy more bandwidth, and resources altogether. This is a simple logic which I hope you, and others lurking around would be able to accept, and understand.
Like mentioned earlier, the term 'unlimited' is only usable with Bigger Companies, eg. HostGator. Yes, you may call small-time companies that offer 'Unlimited' hosting, 'Scams', but you definitely cannot call Companies like CWahi, HostGator - 'Scams' , as they definitely know what they are doing, and offering to their Users.
I've just spent a good 45minutes reading through the whole TOS of HostGator, and putting together a little summary of what you can, and can't do on HostGator Accounts. This is in .pdf Format. If you want this, PM me for it.
Regards,
Bobby
We know it exists in their terms but in the physical sense it doesn't. Also note how I put "MOST" companies. For companies such as HostGator, dreamhost its nothing more then a marketing ploy. To reel people into the keep net. I don't need this explained to me thank you.
Hardware upgrades are limited too...
There are always technical constraints. Anyone who believes you can just stick another hard drive on a server is very misinformed. It's not all about HD space their are other constraints. CPU load is limited and so much more.. if someone decided to bring their huge website running several mysql databases and tons of queries they would cause huge spikes which would slow the server down for other users.
At the end of the day its up to customers. Quality or Quantity.