07-26-2006, 12:12 PM
A lot of hosts offer "unlimited" bandwith, but cancel your account when you go over what they consider to be acceptable.
Seeing as how bandwith costs so much, and is one of the main charges to a host, unlimited bandwith seems very unrealistic. It generally indicates a more relaxed form of server managment, and these hosts will often cram as many sites as they can onto a server even if it lowers quality of service.
Unless you plan to only have a small and relatively unimportant site, I would advise you to go with a host which clearly states what their bandwith limitations are (because these are very real limitations and affect performance significantly).
Seeing as how bandwith costs so much, and is one of the main charges to a host, unlimited bandwith seems very unrealistic. It generally indicates a more relaxed form of server managment, and these hosts will often cram as many sites as they can onto a server even if it lowers quality of service.
Unless you plan to only have a small and relatively unimportant site, I would advise you to go with a host which clearly states what their bandwith limitations are (because these are very real limitations and affect performance significantly).