Unlimited Website Hosting Services

The web hosting service itself consists of a number of features that bring a website online: disk storage for the site files, bandwidth - so that people can access them, an email service - so that email accounts can be created using a chosen domain name, database support for script-driven websites, and so on. There are many web hosting companies on the market, and they all offer different hosting packages. How good a plan is or how much it will cost usually depends on the particular service quotas a given package is offering. For example, Plan 1 may come with 100 MB space, 1000 MB monthly traffic and 15 mailboxes, while Plan 2 will have 200 MB space, 2000 MB traffic and 50 mailboxes, so it will be more expensive, but can accommodate more websites. The disk space usually refers to how much space on the server's hard drive is allocated to a particular hosting account. This is where all website files are located. They can be uploaded using a File Manager tool, available in the hosting account's Control Panel, an FTP program or a Secure Shell console - if the provider offers this type of connection. Every time a website is opened by a visitor, the site files are copied from the server to a temporary folder on the local computer, and then they are displayed in a browser. This is valid for any web page or image that is a part of a website - all these parts are copied to the visitor's computer, generating traffic. The more visitors open a site, the more traffic will be generated, and if an account reaches its monthly traffic limit, it is either suspended, or each megabyte above that limit is paid in addition to the price of the hosting. Traffic is also generated when files are uploaded as the server network connection is in use no matter if the traffic is incoming or outgoing.

The number of mailboxes that can be created in an account is also among some of the first things customers usually check. It may not be important if it is a personal website, but for a company the emails are a vital part of the business communication with clients and partners, so it is important how many mailboxes can be created using the company domain name. Some providers have a fixed quota on how large each mailbox can be, or how much space the mailboxes can take altogether. With other providers, the total disk space is shared between website files and emails, so as long as there is some free space, it can be used to accommodate any of the two. Emails also generate traffic, but if there aren't large attachments, this traffic is negligible.

Script-driven websites store their data in databases and display dynamic content that may be different for the different users. Such script platforms are WordPress, Moodle, Joomla, phpBB, Drupal, and so on. They all need a database and it takes more space as more data is stored in it. A large popular forum can have a database whose size is many hundreds of megabytes, for example. Usually, a hosting account comes with a database space quota that is separate from the disk space's. Database servers are different from the hosting content servers, so the space cannot be shared, meaning that many providers put severe limits regarding the size of the databases a user can have.

The spread of the broadband access and the development of new web design platforms increase the demand for larger hosting accounts that can support more and more content. That's why, some innovative companies like NTC Hosting offer unlimited web hosting plans. Along with the standard features like unlimited space and traffic, many other plan features are also unlimited - the number of the mailboxes, the number and the size of the databases, the number of the cron jobs and the number of the domains that can be hosted in a single account. These powerful plans allow customers to build rich, professional websites without worrying if they will fit into any limits.