Unlimmited hosting (Locally)?

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Hi Guys,

I'm seeing allot of new places offering unlimited bandwidth for their hosting packgages.

This seems like something worth exploring? Or should I rather not touch these kind of hosts?

Any suggestions as to good hosts which does unlimited bandwidth?
 
Pitbull said:
Hi Guys,

I'm seeing allot of new places offering unlimited bandwidth for their hosting packgages.

This seems like something worth exploring? Or should I rather not touch these kind of hosts?

Any suggestions as to good hosts which does unlimited bandwidth?
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Pitbull post some links please
 
Depends on your needs, may be well worth it. The problem I have found with a lot of them is they offer like 50MB - 75MB of MySQL disk space, so if you want to run just about anything CMS based or otherwise backed by a database you will quickly run out of space.

But if you don't need and never will need a big database, it's a good deal.
 
Pitbull said:
This is one I found yesterday:
http://www.hostcow.co.za/shared-hosting.php

There are quite a few, I don't want to move to something like this and get screwed in the process. I need a reliable host with unlimited bandwidth and not catches.
I'm trying to find a host someone is using offering the same kind of deal.
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I heard that host cow is selling or something as the owner wants to start a search engine in the states not sure though but a big no no

Go with host gator they not local but they good depends on what you need but should be sufficient
 
Unlimited bandwidth is subject to alot of terms with some hosting companies, read their Terms & Conditions or Acceptable Use Policy when taking out unlimited bandwidth, and see weather there are restrictions or if it truly is unlimited.

For unlimited bandwidth I quite agree with the above, HostGator wont let you down.
 
We are offering unlimited bandwidth on our local hosting accounts with unlimited databases and email accounts. We have done this to make it easy for users to start a website and not have to worry about the small things like overusage costs and paying for things like databases and email accounts. This system runs well as we are using CloudLinux on our servers to prevent abusers from slowing a server down. This way you can get the full benefits of unlimited hosting and not have to worry about your account getting suspended for using too many resources on a shared hosting system.
 
JasonH said:
We are offering unlimited bandwidth on our local hosting accounts with unlimited databases and email accounts. We have done this to make it easy for users to start a website and not have to worry about the small things like overusage costs and paying for things like databases and email accounts. This system runs well as we are using CloudLinux on our servers to prevent abusers from slowing a server down. This way you can get the full benefits of unlimited hosting and not have to worry about your account getting suspended for using too many resources on a shared hosting system.
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With unlimited databases do you mean I can have like 1000 and then what disk space ? Can each be like 1 Gig ?
 
Host Gator, Host Gator, Host Gator need I say more, no one can touch them locally

On the other hand if you want the fastest, reliable hosting definitely Afri Host (Think I am gonna go look at their website again just to appreciate how awesome they are)
 
byron_spy said:
With unlimited databases do you mean I can have like 1000 and then what disk space ? Can each be like 1 Gig ?
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If you require 1000 databases then you are not suited for shared hosting. We have no limits to make it easier for customers to get a website hosted without the normal fuss associated with the process. Any reasonable customer should never have to worry about disk space, or bandwidth. We will only advise to upgrade if the server memory and processor usage needed by the website exceeds what we can offer in a shared hosting environment.
 
JasonH said:
If you require 1000 databases then you are not suited for shared hosting. We have no limits to make it easier for customers to get a website hosted without the normal fuss associated with the process. Any reasonable customer should never have to worry about disk space, or bandwidth. We will only advise to upgrade if the server memory and processor usage needed by the website exceeds what we can offer in a shared hosting environment.
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Ok Point taken but why advertise unlimited databases ? If you know yourself that anything more than 10 databases per site is not necessary, the hosting game in SA is such a joke this is why they should force everyone to state exactly what you get

The same with adsl (You have a uncapped account but as soon as you start to download torrents they suspend you or throttle you or for that matter downloading free software on cnet/ steam etc

My comment is not aimed at elite host so don't take it personal, i just want everyone to advertise exactly what the end user is receiving, tell them uncapped adsl but if you rape your line you gonna get shaped, the same with bandwidth, unmetered but if you start a torrent site and traffic 500 Gb a month don't expect to still have a active hosting account

So the point behind all of this

http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/linux_home_hosting

What they advertise is what you get nothing less nothing more
 
JasonH said:
If you require 1000 databases then you are not suited for shared hosting. We have no limits to make it easier for customers to get a website hosted without the normal fuss associated with the process. Any reasonable customer should never have to worry about disk space, or bandwidth. We will only advise to upgrade if the server memory and processor usage needed by the website exceeds what we can offer in a shared hosting environment.
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Am i correct in saying you are using WHM for shared linux hosting ?
 
We advertise unlimited databases so users do not have to worry about paying extra if they need more than 1 database, or paying per MB etc. That is the problem with some local hosting companies at the moment - every little add-on is charged and this makes it difficult for the client, since they think they are getting web hosting for RXX/month but then in order to add more than 1 email account or database they have to pay extra.

You said "Host Gator, Host Gator, Host Gator need I say more, no one can touch them locally " in another post and our packages are very similar to theirs (unlimited email, databases etc) with the same resource policy. If a site is suited for shared hosting then it will be fine, but as soon as the processing power and memory exceed what shared hosting can offer then we do give the clients an option to upgrade.

We are using cPanel/WHM with CloudLinux, this means that a website can use their allocated resources and view this usage in cPanel. Real time stats regarding cpu time, memory usage and processes open are available for clients to view. This technology allows us to isolate each customer into its own “virtual segment”, a website will not be disabled if resource usage is too high, the website will simply run slower as their allocated processing time and memory has been used up. The idea here is to maintain an environment that will allow clients to have bursts in traffic without affecting everyone else. That’s our goal.

We're trying to get South Africa's hosting offerings and service levels on par with international levels and I think we're doing a pretty good job so far :)
 
Anyone who offers unlimited bandwidth in SA is over selling. This is a pretty common practice though.
 
ghoti said:
Anyone who offers unlimited bandwidth in SA is over selling. This is a pretty common practice though.
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We're getting unlimited bandwidth to our servers, this is on a 100Mb port - The same port speed we get on unlimited bandwidth servers internationally, this why we are able to host a certain number of websites per server and still offer a 100% stable and reliable service. Yes this is overselling, but any international host offering unlimited packages would also be overselling. This same model works perfectly overseas so we have brought the same offering to South Africa and our current clients are more than happy with our service.
 
JasonH said:
We advertise unlimited databases so users do not have to worry about paying extra if they need more than 1 database, or paying per MB etc. That is the problem with some local hosting companies at the moment - every little add-on is charged and this makes it difficult for the client, since they think they are getting web hosting for RXX/month but then in order to add more than 1 email account or database they have to pay extra.

You said "Host Gator, Host Gator, Host Gator need I say more, no one can touch them locally " in another post and our packages are very similar to theirs (unlimited email, databases etc) with the same resource policy. If a site is suited for shared hosting then it will be fine, but as soon as the processing power and memory exceed what shared hosting can offer then we do give the clients an option to upgrade.

We are using cPanel/WHM with CloudLinux, this means that a website can use their allocated resources and view this usage in cPanel. Real time stats regarding cpu time, memory usage and processes open are available for clients to view. This technology allows us to isolate each customer into its own “virtual segment”, a website will not be disabled if resource usage is too high, the website will simply run slower as their allocated processing time and memory has been used up. The idea here is to maintain an environment that will allow clients to have bursts in traffic without affecting everyone else. That’s our goal.

We're trying to get South Africa's hosting offerings and service levels on par with international levels and I think we're doing a pretty good job so far :)
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To be fair host gator i personally do not think that you can compare yourself to a company that has over 3000 employees just on live chat

My personal opinion though it looks like you are definitely opening the South African Market, and what I do like about your company is that you are actively involved on My BB which is cool so thumbs up to that and also for standing up for Elite Host as so many hosting companies are easily pulled down I have noticed as soon as one "takes" them on they immediately back down

I quite like your reseller hosting packages will perhaps sign up for one :) Out of interest what is your Hosting Up time Percentage ?
 
JasonH said:
We're getting unlimited bandwidth to our servers, this is on a 100Mb port - The same port speed we get on unlimited bandwidth servers internationally, this why we are able to host a certain number of websites per server and still offer a 100% stable and reliable service. Yes this is overselling, but any international host offering unlimited packages would also be overselling. This same model works perfectly overseas so we have brought the same offering to South Africa and our current clients are more than happy with our service.
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How much does a 100mb unlimited pipe cost? :eek:
 
byron_spy said:
To be fair host gator i personally do not think that you can compare yourself to a company that has over 3000 employees just on live chat
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I can assure you that HostGator do not have 3000 employees, never mind that number just for Live Support. They are reaching close to their first thousand employees now.
 
RSkeens said:
I can assure you that HostGator do not have 3000 employees, never mind that number just for Live Support. They are reaching close to their first thousand employees now.
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Someone told me this

300 Employees on 4 hours shifts a day = 1500

Working 5 days a week so you will have additional ones etc working the other 2 days

But anyways the point is there
 
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