Are you wondering what all the web hosting companies have to offer that separates them from each other? So am I sometimes. Unlimited bandwidth – it seems like every web host has that to offer. Unlimited disk space? Check – again it seems like that unlimited hard drives must have been delivered by the dozens to web hosting companies across the country. However, whenever I check out the local computer store, I never find hard drives with unlimited storage. And sure enough, if you would read the fine print (TOS) of many of those “unlimited” web hosts, somewhere buried deep down in there is a clause that sets things “right” when it comes to unlimited bandwidth or unlimited disk space. Thank you very much.
So, of course even many of the best web hosts out there are using the unlimited features to advertise their services and products. Are they different from all the other ones? It’s hard to tell, but you can be pretty sure that if your shared web hosting account reaches certain limits that they recommend you to get a dedicated server and right that is. The limit is usually not the bandwidth or the disk space, but the impact of your website to the CPU and the memory usage and that’s when unlimited suddenly becomes very limited.
So, how to work around that? Well, accept that unlimited does not mean unlimited. However, accept that you have certain resources you can use and that most people will never reach the limits of an unlimited web hosting account. The few that reach it, pretty much know that they should rather have a cheap dedicated server or a VPS for web hosting and that their busy website affects other websites on the same server in a very negative way.
So, now we got this out of the way, sign up for a web host that is known for good quality. I recommend the following web hosts as your web hosting providers of choice:
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