My hosting service claims "unmetered" bandwidth and storage

Sometimes you don't post a Meta description

[jefuchs]

First, I'm leary of the term "unmetered", because they don't come out and say "unlimited"

For a very cheap price, I can upgrade to a service with "unmetered" bandwidth and "unmetered" server space.

Being suspicious, I wonder what's the difference between unmetered and unlimited.

If both are unlimited, so are my opportunities. Should I upgrade, or is this a semantics trick?

[Livenomadic]

I got fooled into unlimited/unmetered space once.

They have a line in the TOS that states that they block access to your site if your bandwidth "threatens the stability of the network".

The trick is that they run the network on complete crap servers and thus any decent amount of bandwidth quickly "threatens the stability of the network".

My site ended up being "blocked" 60% of the day after I put it up...

In hosting, you get what you pay for.

[HitsAndClicks]

I agree 100% with livenomadic. In hosting, you get what you pay for. Nothing in hosting is unlimited. What they do is play the odds and assume 99% of the people who sign up won't be able to push enough traffic to take advantage of the claim. The ones who do... well, they are the ones who get to find out the hard way that there is no such thing as "unlimited". lol