Hello! Anyone tried "unmetered" hosting services, such as nqhost.com? If so, what were your impressions? What are the average download/upload speeds? I can only imagine such a model with a bandwidth limit (explicit or not), after which we are talking at most of kbps, right? But even assuming low speeds, did you find the service to actually be available consistently?<p>Thanks!
I've used hostmonster and that has been pretty reliable.<p>It is kinda' like newegg versus CDW.<p>There are some weird restrictions, you must have a fixed ip to use the maximum execution time for cronjobs, daemons, and things running in ssh.<p>Cronjobs are limited to 30 minutes. Daemons are unlimited (but you can get in trouble for saturating the CPU/network), web-based PHP/MySQL, FTP, etc is limited to 12 hours.<p>I have a site that takes a 2GB csv file once every 3 months and imports it into a denormalized MySQL db, and another site that downloads several hundred images daily and resizes them into thumbnails and a second size.<p>Each of these required creative solutions. That is what you get for ~$100/yr 'unmetered' hosting.<p>I looked at the hosting provider you mentioned, and it seems the server is located in Germany w/ upto 4GB of RAM and 250GB of storage for ~$75/month. Says 'guaranteed resources', but who knows how quickly you can saturate the CPU?<p>Rackspace cloud has a calculator to determine costs and you only have so much throughput, so you can calculate worse-case bandwidth scenario, or have another way to mitigate bandwidth "overages".<p><a href="http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing" rel="nofollow">http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers...</a>
<a href="http://webhostingtalk.com/" rel="nofollow">http://webhostingtalk.com/</a> is my go-to place for hosting opinions. More specifically, I recommend iWeb.com - I've had dedicated servers with them for more than five years. They're top quality. I haven't had any unmetered servers with them, though.
I've been hosting a server on a Hazenet VPS for $7/mo for the past few months, which is unmetered @ 5 mbits. Seems consistent/reliable so far.. <a href="http://hazenet.co.uk/vps.html" rel="nofollow">http://hazenet.co.uk/vps.html</a>