Its so common to see shared web hosting oversell and offering unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth transfer. Usually for comfirmation, you would need to double check the TOS to confirm on the shared web hosting limitation, defination of unlimited storage, and acceptable usage of shared web hosting account.
For unlimited storage space, there is usually limited by the inodes to you can host and the cpu usage quata for your account. Commonly when unlimited storage space are being offering, the limits here should be limited by the number of files you can host, for example 50,000 inodes for your single hosting account. Hostgator does allows up to 200,000 inodes hosting for shared hosting. And up to 1 millions inodes hosting for their vps hosting plan. From this shared hosting and vps hosting comparison, you know that the inodes to be hosted are five times greater on vps hosting plan. And hence this is how the web hosting company are limiting the resource usage, by limiting the inodes instead of limiting the files size.
If you are going to host 10,000 files and each of them are 100k in size. That is 10GB of storage space required. This is allowed because you haven’t exceed the inodes limits of 50,000 files. And 10GB is not the limits, not even 100GB… as long the inodes limits are not challenged. Well, here you have it, overselled shared web hosting and their unlimited storage space limits.
If you looking for high volume of files or storage space hosting, then go for hostgator hosting… if you require more than that, hostgator vps hosting will be your right choice. Get started with hostgator shared hosting at 20% discount when you activate the monthly hostgator coupon code.
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