Does unlimited bandwidth web hosting exist?

What does actually bandwidth mean? It is the a term typically used to describe the amount of information (or data) that your web site sends to your visitors over a spesific amount of time, usually a month. Every time a vistor comes to your site, the web server sends the front page, with all the images and text, to the browser of the visitor. If you have two images that are each 0.05 mb, just there you have used 0.10 mb of bandwidth for that page view. Add up all the page views and you will have your bandwidth usage.

Unlimited, endless, unrestricted, bandwidth?
For starters, there is no such thing as “unlimited” bandwidth, strictly speaking. If there was, all web sites in the world could be run through the same internet backbone connection. Unlimited, in the most formal use of the word, means unlimited, endless, unrestricted, bandwidth.

Secondly, at what point does your bandwidth usage result in the server you are on being over loaded? Long before “unlimited”, that’s for sure. Think about it, if Google were to sign up for a $7.99 web hosting account, with unlimited bandwidth and storage, the web hosting company would have to shut down business the second Google went online on their server (if such a server were to exist).

Tips for choosing an “unlimited” web host
When choosing a web hosting company that offers anything “unlimited” you should carefully read their terms of use. The terms of use document usually describes the restrictions to their “unlimited” offer, and spell out the real expectations you can have. You should also read reviews from customers of the web host that actually have high traffic sites, and see how they are treated. Have they been shut down by the web host, or does the web host facilitate growth?

A good web host will not hide behind a disclaimer when your site grows, and will go to great lengths to ensure that the customer is able to receive the cost saving benifits of shared web hosting accounts.

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