I wanted to get other people thoughts on umlimited hosting providers, How do you feel that thay affect the hosting industry?

also to help prove that unlimited hosting providers can't really provide UNLIMITED bandwidth I ordered unlimited hosting off of ebay for 99 Cents, here is the address to the site

http://www.blackhistoryfact.com/~stargate/

I'm going to be uploading some Big files that are legal, feel free to download any thing that you want as many times as you can, if thay say unlimited then I want to make sure that I have unlimited bandwidth

here is what I ordered off of eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5126426818&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

I think people who offer unlimted hosting take away some of the potential clients of people who are thinking about maybe starting a webhosting company.

awww, you need something bigger than a 3.5 meg bitmap, put up like the desert combat mod installer, its like 700 megs. or upload your page file from windows a few times under different filenames if you have access to a fast upload connection.

I created a FTP account for this hosting account, if you want you can uplaod LEGAL files

ftp: 67.18.180.67
user: haha@stargatetalk.info
pass: haha

Upload some linux iso's and a whole bunch of open source applications.

Upload Linux ISO's and open source files, as E_man3 said. Also put a text file explaining why they are legal, just to keep any confusion out :)

Better yet, submit it as a download mirror site for Fedora. ;)

Info at the bottom of this page: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

How is the expiriment going??

If you are wanting to setup a cron job to download the file over and over again you will need 2 corn jobs here are the commands

wget http://www.blackhistoryfact.com/~stargate/stargate.atlantis.s01e10.hdtv-lol.avi
rm -fr stargate.atlantis.s01e10.hdtv-lol.avi*

one will download the file and the other will delete the file so you dont have to wast your space

I would think that most people that sell unlimited space cover themselves in the TOS for certain files and CPU usage, but it is interesting in this ebay auction, the seller does not even mention any TOS.

I need to get another unlimited hosting account and setup large files on both of then and then have a cron job setup to where thay will download the large files off of each other every min

Originally posted by RBooth
I need to get another unlimited hosting account and setup large files on both of then and then have a cron job setup to where thay will download the large files off of each other every min

That wouldn't use any bandwidth.

not from them but from another unlimited hosting provider

has any body been downloading?

If you really want to screw them, don't worry about bandwidth. They gave you unlimited space, pack their hard drive full and every account on that server dies. It's easier to just upload a mass number of files. Grab an ISO as mentioned and upload it 80 times with a different name.

Its faster to upload a big file and to copy it with the file manager, but if i use up all of the bandwidth theplanet.com will charge them 75 Cents for every gig over after 2TB, which it can add up really fast.

Originally posted by RBooth
Its faster to upload a big file and to copy it with the file manager, but if i use up all of the bandwidth theplanet.com will charge them 75 Cents for every gig over after 2TB, which it can add up really fast.

Except filling the hard drive is 100 times easier than using 2000 GB of bandwidth. The hard drive will drop the server causing a lot more damage.

Ok, i setup a cron job to copy files, its filling up the HDD very quickly, lets see how long it takes to fill it up

I think i broke their server, their server load is at 33.1

It might be higher now, cPanel has stoped responding

look at this

http://www.subhostsolutions.com/serverload.jpg

:rofl:

Good job! :D Gotta teach those unlimited resource hosts somehow.

oohhh you guys are bad.... :stickout:

the server load is now at 104.24

Originally posted by RBooth
the server load is now at 104.24

I'd slow the copy process down a little, you're technically breaking TOS now I'm sure. As long as you fill the account slowly you're all good. :D

thay dont have a TOS or any thing, i cant stop it, cPanel has frozeing, here is a pic of what it is at now at 188.15

http://www.subhostsolutions.com/serverload2.jpg

And you're only at 23% HD space. :(

while it is funny to pick on an unlimited host, You do realize you are purposely trying to take a server down? You went from trying to use ALOT of bandwidth to trying to crash the server. not cool.

I wasent trying to make the server load go so high, it started doing that when I setup a cron job to copy files, I never though that it would make it go this high

I say let them run their "unlimited" hosting companies. They'll get what's coming... in time... as all of you are seemingly illustrating with your lil' experiment. =)


JP

For some one that offers unlimited space the HDD sure is small, when i try to login to cPanel on their server it give me this message

Sorry for the inconvience!
The root partition on this server is running out of disk space. Cpanel operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition.

Originally posted by abstracthost
while it is funny to pick on an unlimited host, You do realize you are purposely trying to take a server down? You went from trying to use ALOT of bandwidth to trying to crash the server. not cool.

The host offers unlimited space, it's not an attempt to "crash the server", he's merely using up the resources he's been given. He's broken no rules. If the server crashes because a client uses his account the way it was intended, there's something wrong with the offer in the first place.

If I was given unlimited space, I'd be backing up my hard drives there as well and the same thing would happen I'm sure. :D

There's a reason for restrictions on resources, this is one of them.