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# Unlimited Shared Hosting Accounts
- URL: https://connortumbleson.com/2011/10/12/unlimited-shared-hosting-accounts/
- Published: 2011-10-12T09:20:42.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-22T01:19:23.000Z
- Author: Connor Tumbleson

First time hosting account buyers, probably in the age range of 12-20 will see the promises of unlimited resources for a small fee of 3.95/month. It seems unbelievable and users hop right aboard that ship. [![](http://res.cloudinary.com/ibotpeaches/image/upload/v1393112404/unlimited_jmbiq6.png "unlimited")](https://connortumbleson.com/2011/10/unlimited-shared-hosting-accounts/unlimited/)For many users, they'll never need anything more. Their static HTML pages and 6 hits a day is perfect for these type of hosting plans. The company fits hundreds of clients onto the servers, in hopes for users like described above, who pay 4 bucks a month and do absolutely nothing on their servers. However, we do have clients who are purchasing a chunk of a server to host a blog or forum. Instantly, they are in danger. The company may promise unlimited, but lets examine some Terms of Service from some shared hosting websites.

> *User may not:*   *1) Use 15% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.*   *8) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes.*   *9) Run any MySQL queries longer than 15 seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.*   *10) When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use include("include.php")*

In a nutshell, say goodbye to fulltext mySQL searching for any forum with more than 10,000 posts. Real webmasters quickly realize that a VPS or dedicate server is more their avenue of research. I posted this because I asked for help hosting a mirror of a 80mb file. My server with around 200/downloads a day just couldn't handle it anymore. It was crawling quite slow. I didn't want to offset the upload to some cheap 3rd party option, so I asked for help. The amount of responses I got from shared hosting accounts was 100%. One of the responses was as follows: 

> *Hello, I have unlimited resources. I can host all your files for you.*

Granted, that you are allowed to host direct files on your plan and that your bandwidth can handle it. Most shared providers throttle the bandwidth per account so you cannot share a file at 1mbps (to prevent abuse). Users just didn't understand what shared hosting was. Shared Hosting was meant for very small personal portfolios or static HTML pages.