I mean, I’m sure I remember while back Virgin Media getting in trouble from Ofcom for claiming ‘unlimited’ usage. They said although the terms and conditions explain the limits of the ‘unlimited’ usage, that the way they were advertising it was misleading, if I remember correctly.

The funny thing is, these services not only aren’t unlimited, they also tend to have fairly strict limits!!

I did have to laugh at a AUP I read for a ‘unlimited’ disk space and bandwidth host the other day – “If we believe that your website is using more than the average personal website or more than the average of one of our customers….”. Right, well they could be hosting a load of holding pages, and so if you go over 1MB disk space and 10MB bandwidth a month you get your account suspended! ;).

Obviously that example is extreme, but it highlights that they can decide and change their minds at will at what is “reasonable”.

Your much better off with a stated limit, there is absolutely no misunderstanding or ambiguity then! 🙂

Yup, with everything there are limits. There are theoretical limits on how much data can be transferred over a USB 2.0 cable, for example. Unlimited web hosting is merely just marketing because it sounds great. I’d likely not find a web hosting provider that does not have an AUP especiallly if they offer unlimited disk space and/or bandwidth.

Pretty logical to conclude “unlimited web hosting” doesn’t exist, even if there is a lot of infrastructure available; there are still THEORETICAL LIMITS. As with everything in life.