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Originally Posted by whym
You can get unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited email accounts, unlimited databases etc. etc. but you will rarely see unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space simply doesn't exist (as I said).
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Unlimited email/databases etc. don't exist either - just a lot more hosts get away with this as it's rare to get burnt by it. As a sensible provider, it still isn't a good idea to be offering it though...
Put it this way, if you're offering AV and anti-spam filtering on your mailboxes, then email accounts are a significant enough resource for you to worry about. Unlimited databases are also a potential problem, and ultimately clients will notice the difference between 50 databases and 5000 databases all on the same database server; why open yourself up to problems like this?
I understand that people may be concerned about what they may use/need, but once you've got your site running somewhere you can easily see the kind of usage that you actually need (in every single resource) - unfortunately customers see resource limits as restrictions, but the reality is that often the hosts offering more limitations (less unlimited or very high limits) are the ones offering a decent service.
It's the "restrictions" that help maintain quality service over a long-term sustained period, rather than just the day they bring an empty server to the party.
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Last edited by damien_ls : 07-31-2007 at 06:44 AM.
Reason: corrected typo + added last sentence
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