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Unmetered and unlimited bandwidth hosting revisited

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The latest trend is to provide unmetered and unlimited bandwidth by the hosting servers. It has the advantage of not being deceptive for the customers. The market is always customers not the buyers the customer will decide what it has to buy, the seller is not able to decide the market.

The concept going on today is that bandwidth limits are no longer meaningful, but the usage of CPU and memory is more meaningful. As per the description of unmetered bandwidth the ultimate thing that limits bandwidth consumption is the amount of server resources used. The decision to gamble by offering unmetered bandwidth is based on mathematical reasoning and it’s a calculated risk.

It has been said that unlimited hosting cannot be taken at the face value but has to be taken at par with bandwidth or space. It general terms it can be said that unlimited means the regular or any standard website may need. Unmetered bandwidth on shared account means that a single user can use the complete bandwidth allotted to the server. It has been observed that it’s possible only for the dedicated servers. So all in all it’s not a very honest approach and is deceptive.

The main point in all this is that bandwidth costs money and the higher the bandwidth the hosting company provides you, lower will be its profit. So how does unlimited or unmetered bandwidth. It is just the question of doing calculations. The web sites use only a fraction of the bandwidth which is given by their web hosting companies. If the number of websites for any web hosting company is large then they can easily calculate how much bandwidth is actually used. It then gives them an average of the large traffic spikes in a given period of time and still be, then they can safely offer unlimited bandwidth and remain profitable

The marketing claims of web hosting companies having unlimited and unmetered bandwidth cannot at one go be called false. If you use unmetered bandwidth and are continuously using excess bandwidth it will not be surprising to hear from the sales people of the company that you have used extra bandwidth.

Unmetered bandwidth does work well for the web hosting companies as they try to sell more bandwidth. These unmetered bandwidth leads to having more companies in their business net, though with lesser profit. More business with less more profit will add to more profit on an average.

Unlimited bandwidth lets you have the facility of having unlimited traffic to you website. It will be better if while buying unlimited bandwidth you check the unlimited bandwidth description area of the hosting contract. It will make sure that you are not cheated and unlimited bandwidth web hosting should remain a feature so long as you host your website with an unlimited bandwidth web host company.

Unlimited bandwidth is very popular and gets lots of publicity but while going for it will be better to check as the real danger lies in the practice of overselling bandwidth. Unmetered bandwidth is not misleading advertising to a potential client. Unlimited is not possible but unmetered is possible as it is a common fact that bandwidth is a service that someone needs to pay for eventually.

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  1. Web Hosting » Web Hosting June 23, 2007 9:24 am on June 23rd, 2007 1:32 pm

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