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Friday, September 26, 2008

Beware of Unlimited Bandwidth - The Catch Behind Web Hosting's Offer

By Phil Anderson

To have your website perform well under major traffic, you need a huge amount of bandwidth. Bandwidth is simply the amount of data that can be downloaded or transmitted over an internet connection. Therefore, when you are building a website or choosing a web hosting company, make sure the company provides enough bandwidth for your website.

There are many providers out there but which one provides the genuine bandwidth that will deliver performance to your website? Some companies out there even promises unlimited bandwidth if you choose their services. To be honest, if you come across these ads that claim that they provide unlimited bandwidth, you can just forget about these companies because there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. These companies are just trying to attract you and lure you into signing up with their hosting plans. The so-called unlimited bandwidth is only a trick. After you eventually sign up with these companies, they will inform you that you will have to pay additional fees when you exceed your limit. This is the so-called unlimited bandwidth. You pay for whatever extra bandwidth you use.

So, if your pocket has unlimited cash, you really can enjoy unlimited bandwidth.

The only way to have unlimited bandwidth is to have you own broadband company. If not, there is no way a web hosting company provides unlimited bandwidth. Among the experienced that we have with customers that sign up with an unlimited bandwidth, customers finds that their website is not running after they sign up with the companies. When they ask for a refund, the company would just turn to 'legal mean'.

When they do that, customers will have no choice but to accept the fact in the terms of service, the one detail where customers always fail to study properly. In the end, the company does not have any reason to refund the customers.

In any case that you may encounter a company that provides unlimited bandwidth, make sure that you read the terms of service properly. Better safe than sorry. The better solution is to determine how much bandwidth that you will need for your website. To do that, you need to estimate the amount of visitors that you expect will visit your website daily, the amount of pages that you visitors will browse through and the size of the codes on your website. Once you have that figured out, you will roughly know how much bandwidth that you need. So, you won't actually have to go for an unlimited bandwidth after all.


If you are looking for an affordable web hosting service that offer unlimited bandwidth, perhaps you should check out Hostmonster hosting. At the time of writing, they are offering "unlimited bandwidth and disk storage space" with just about $6 per month.

Wonder if their offer is for real?

Well then you have to review Hostmonster service and compare Hostmonster hosting packages with other web host.

Article by Phil Anderson.

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