Offering “unlimited space and bandwidth” on hosting plans is not something that should be seen as seedy or misleading. The true reason for offering such plans, I believe, is offering customers peace of mind. Build and then grow your website without worries of a ticking clock or a raising meter. What is so great about shared hosting is the ability customers have to use a very powerful web server - sometimes all to themselves for short periods of time. No matter what kind of plan a shared hosting customer is on, no matter how much space or bandwidth they have, one customer can never use the server “all to themselves” for a long period of time. This is where the topic of abuse comes in. A customer does not need to attempt to use all of their space or bandwidth to cause a problem on the server with CPU or memory. This is where the misunderstanding and bad rep of “unlimited” and “overselling” come into play, unfortunately. (more…)