But I live in far of my own success. What if that magic day comes when I get Slasdotted? Under my current plan, I’m sure my site would quickly go over it’s “unlimited” cap and get shut off – and there I am, watching a potentially extremely lucrative day for me go down the drain as millions of hits bounce off a 404.

I don’t want high bandwitdth caps ALL the time. i want “slashdot insurance”. I want “Digg insurance”. So i don’t use lots of bandwidth very often, but I want it when it’s needed. I don’t mind paying (within reason) if I go over limit as long as the capacity is there when I need it. i want *flexible* capacity.

I’d pay a big hosting company an extra $1 or $2 a month for that kind of insurance – “your web site won’t go down due to traffic (but we will charge you per GB over )”. Or better yet, charge you per GB over your limit, but only up to a predetermined amount – say, “If I go over my limit, keep the gates open and charge me per GB until it gets to $500, then shut it down”. like a buffer or “overdraft protection”.

There are very few companies left who actually have a limit thats actually show to the public one that comes to mind is http://www.driphost.com

Again there is not such thing as unlimited

Dreamhost offers “Unlimited + 50GB” for disk space. That’s one step better than just plainly saying “Unlimited.” That’s like the childish and immature way of saying “infinite plus one” in attempt to win an argument. Isn’t there a Latin or Greek term to describe this logical fallacy?

What also isn’t fair about this kind of competition is that all the big webhosting companies practically own the webhosting market through their dishonesty and twisting words (such as “unlimited”) and using these deceitful and dishonest methods to reel in customers.

And then the company’s that are truthful, honest, and ethical in their ways are no match to “unlimited,” and get completely skipped over to lose to a company that is lying to a customer to attain them.

This is an unethical monopoly; the market is monopolized by lying and lawyer-like crooked companies. It isn’t fair. Why should one become unethical and immoral to attain customers?

There’s no such thing as unlimited disk. If I were to upload countless files all day they will suspend the account. They aren’t going to let me put a few TB’s of data, even if there’s no copyright issue.

IMHO “unlimited” is really just a way of getting around being attacked for customer unfriendly TOS’s which allow them to suspend your account for pretty much anything.

It’s pretty unfriendly to sell an account that explicitly says “500 GB Bandwidth / month” but know that any way a customer could use that would involve suspension due to CPU or memory usage (buried in the TOS).

With “unlimited*”, that’s no longer the case. They haven’t been suspending due to bandwidth in years thanks to high allotments. They are just suspending due to CPU and memory usage.

If it weren’t the case, why wouldn’t many large sites just get 50 different shared hosting accounts and have DNS round robin distribute traffic while checking them constantly for uptime. For a small decrease in availability they would save a fortune.