The medium-end webhosts offer (or appear to offer):

+ GB's of traffic. More than the average person will use.
+ GB's of webspace. See above.
+ Unlimited this and that.

If space, hosting costs and bandwidth costs are so cheap in the US, why do so many regular hosts prohibit legal adult hosting.

I realise that there may be hardware issues in relation to hacking / password sharing / extra firewall needs.

However, I can't see why so many hosts offering so many resources that alot of customers won't ever use have a no-adult policy.

This is unless, of course, that alot of hosts lie about the resources available to customers and only quote very-high figures which will never be achieved.

If a customer has 2gig space, 200pop3 accounts and 10gig of transfer a month and anybody every managed to use that up, what would the result be?

There seems to be a consipracy against those who want to host adult and / or contentious websites and everything becomes a pain in the a*s.

Donhost offers unlimited domains and transfer. No adult hosting allowed.

Fasthosts offer unlimited domains and transfer. No adult hosting allowed.

***** are pretty much the same.

Comments appreciated.

Dave
Confused

A quick answer would be to minimize the cost and maximize the profit:)

Generally you would not expect an average person to used up all the web space and bandwidth they sign up for. But it is a different story with adult hosting. Therefore you would expect to pay more for it.

Even if the contents of the sites are non-adult, all the 3 hosts you have stated do not offer unlimited bandwidth.

Donhost - 50 GB
Fasthosts - 10 GB
***** - 20 GB.

The amount is taken from their reseller package respectively. I am not sure of the amount for individual hosting package but definitely very much lower than the reseller account limit.

I read in an online article recently that some search engines won't list you if your host allows adult sites. I'm sure others will penalize you. There may even be some hosts who have morality issues with "adult" sites.