| What is Unlimited Web Hosting?: |
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You have just started your online business today and have a website selling just a limited number of items, hence, require a small amount of disk space. Presently only a few people might download the sample video of your health course, so bandwidth usage is no issue either. But what about the future when thousands of people visit your website on a monthly basis and download one of the few sample movies (4-6MB compressed MP4) you have kept for them? What about the disk space when your website will boast of multiple graphic intensive web pages. What about the space requirements for the flash interface you have been so diligently planning? This is where the advantages of unlimited web hosting make themselves apparent.
Web hosting – this term refers to the facility of providing disk space and bandwidth to a website on a high powered server that is connected to the internet via high speed fiber optic connections. These servers are located at data centers which generally have power backup, and staff monitoring security
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The client websites are provided some disk space and bandwidth on these servers in return for a monthly fee. After signing up, a customer can upload files on the web server which are then viewable on the internet. The reason that people go for web hosting companies rather than running a data center at home is that they prove cost efficient.
Web hosting companies provide lots of plans for customers to choose from. These plans differ in terms of allocation of domain names, bandwidth, disk space etc. New customers get excited with the wide range of plans on offer and start choosing the best one from them. But in words of Dr. Schwartz, "choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied."
This statement proves to be amazingly true in today’s scenario. While choosing from a vast array of options, we often tend to make wrong choices and later lament about it. We then want to go for another option and in all this process, create problems for ourselves.
Let’s take an example. Say a customer decides to start a website and signs up for a plan that offers 20 GB space and 100 GB bandwidth for a monthly price of $15.00. After few months of paying for the website, the customer realizes that they don’t need 20 GB space or 100 GB bandwidth for a small website. Therefore, the disk space the customer opted for proves to be over sufficient and ends up costing excessive amount of money. The customer then has to change the plan and opt for another one. All this transition causes a lot of headache and still the customer is not sure if they signed up for the right package. This was only one example and there may be various reasons for a website owner to change their present web hosting plan. Is there any solution for this problem? Luckily yes!
With emerging times, competition and technology, there has been a new addition to the web hosting industry which is known as unlimited web hosting. It is a specific kind of plan on offer these days. An unlimited web hosting plan is void of lots of restrictions.
To start with, those unwanted and no-longer-existing restrictions are the number of domains. With unlimited web hosting you can have as many domains as you want and all of them covered by one plan only.
The second benefit of unlimited web hosting is the unlimited disk space. With limited web hosting plans, you may have to sometimes worry as your allocated disk space may not be enough for your data. You can resolve this problem with unlimited disk space and can upload html pages, images etc. without any worry.
But of course, you can’t do just anything of your own will. Some possible rules and regulations associated with unlimited disk space may be that unlimited disk space can be used only to store the content of website and not personal data. Saving of a large number of ZIP and RAR files is not permitted too. The main purpose of providing unlimited disc space is to free the customer from the worry of upgrading the plan in case more disk space is needed. However unlimited disk space doesn’t mean that you can upload 500 GB of photos or start a video hosting website.
Just like it provides unlimited domains and unlimited disk space, unlimited web hosting plan also provides you with unlimited bandwidth. Bandwidth is required for transferring data from the server to the client (the user’s PC) and from the client to the server with the latter being `ack' (acknowledgement) packets. Even the simple task of visiting a website requires bandwidth since the page data has to be transferred from the server to the client’s browser. The more visitors of your website, the more bandwidth it needs. With limited web hosting plan, bandwidth is also limited and it may be painful to upgrade every now and then as visitors to your website keep increasing. With unlimited bandwidth there is no limit on data transfer.
With unlimited bandwidth there is one thing you should keep in mind that high amount of data transfer from your account should not choke the network, thereby causing latency problems to other customers. In such a scenario you may be asked to go for a dedicated plan by the company.
An unlimited web hosting plan may also include unlimited databases. A database is the way of storing and retrieving information. In case of web hosting, the database should only contain information related to your website.
There are some other unlimited web hosting services as well which are not so popular, but may be important for your website. These services include providing unlimited email and FTP accounts. All of these plans can be included in one unlimited web hosting plan, or there be some service providers who provide these unlimited services separately.
Here we list some of the benefits you may get by choosing a reliable unlimited web hosting plan:
Server down time may prove disastrous for your business. Though, a 100% uptime is not guaranteed, a reliable company can promise you 99% uptime. If you are having multiple websites for your business, hosting them with a single host and unlimited web hosting plan would be a nice option as you would save a lot on down-time.
When it comes to management, managing your websites through different web server accounts may prove to be a tedious and time consuming job. With unlimited web hosting, you can host all your websites through one panel only. All you need to do is to log in as an administrator and you will be able to access all your domains.
Many people think that it is cheaper to use limited plans for hosting websites. But if you go for a reputed web hosting provider, you will be able to get a lot of cheap unlimited web hosting plans. Also, with limited plans, the cost of bandwidth over and above of that allotted may prove to be very high.
People like to visit websites that load quickly and unlimited bandwidth can provide you with high loading speed, especially if the server is running on a high speed backbone. This ensures that people will not hesitate from visiting your website again and again thus ensuring increased popularity for your website.
Unlimited web hosting plans are getting popular as they provide possibilities covering a wide range of needs and comforts and are also available at affordable prices. Going for an unlimited web hosting plan may prove very beneficial for your business.
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