Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Web Hosting : To the unlimited non-believers

[RossH]

A while back I used a company called penguin hosting for some of my web sites. All I have seen here is people flaming unlimited hosts. Well I had my penguin host account for a long time and it was nothing but excellent. I suggest you check them out if your looking for something a long those lines http://www.penguinhosting.com/

[Mark_TVI]

They aren't unlimited...

* While Penguin Hosting does not meter bandwidth and hosts many popular, high bandwidth sites, we reserve the right to terminate accounts that utilize resources beyond what is within reason.

You just may have never gone over what they deem reasonable..

There is no such thing as unlimited....

[Curtis H.]

And what's your website? How much bandwidth do you use per month?

[Curtis H.]

[Artashes]

I don't really like their web site. It loads slow, too. (I'm on cable) and this host is not Unlimited. I bet once your site goes over 7 or 10GB (or whatever their limit is) of bw - they will suspend your account.

[RossH]

I don't use them anymore but I did use more then 10 GB a month

[ServerSonic]

I apologize but no business model will work if a host truly gives unlimited bandwidth. They can not buy from an unlimited source, and eventually their costs will catch up with their profits and they will have to start terminating sites which are "using too much" of their "unlimited" bandwidth.

If there is a company out there that REALLY offers unlimited bandwidth, somehow they manage to stay in business letting all their customers use as much bandwidth they like with no restrictions, you can all meet me at my grave and write non-believer on my tombstone;-)

[JeremyV]

The site is extremely slow.... you'd think with unlimited bandwidth it would be the fastest one on the internet wouldn't it? I mean... there are no limits

[adam]

Originally posted by dk2
I don't use them anymore but I did use more then 10 GB a month

If you only used 10GB then you cant say you know for sure they offer unlimited.

10GB is hardly anything...

[FHDave]

heh, 10 GB

[mainarea]

Looks like an overcrowded server or something...

traceroute to www.penguinhosting.com (208.171.237.192), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
......
9 agr2-so-2-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.182) 15.698 ms agr2-so-0-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.54) 15.117 ms 15.471 ms
10 bar14-loopback.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.194.31) 16.187 ms 16.200 ms 15.077 ms
11 acmenet.NewYork.cw.net (208.175.100.106) 23.557 ms acmenet.NewYork.cw.net (208.175.100.102) 21.742 ms 21.986 ms
12 vhosts.penguinhosting.net (208.171.237.192) 573.079 ms 59.441 ms 203.514 ms

[Mark_TVI]

Try using 100 gigs of bandwidth and see how long your account stays active...

[adam]

100 GB isnt even much to me, I offer 150 on our $50.00/mo plan but I know for sure I can handle that, and I dont overload my servers...

But use say 1TB then see how long you stay lol

[Mark_TVI]

Heh, they get 10 bucks a month for unlimited. 100 gigs times 300 accounts at 10 bucks an account.....wait I dont think they have a big enough pipe for that...

[ServerSonic]

Wow they can offer unlimited bandwidth from NY!? I wonder which of the tele/colo houses they get their unlimited space for their servers from because surely they can't fit unlimited unlimited accounts on just one machine... right?