@ Harsh Agrawal – becoz DH is almost useless, i had 3 times data loss on their backup cluster, server’s link speeds are terribly slow.

@ Slim0123 – cool! Thanks
btw i feel unlimited space is nothing and it all depends on how much you are paying. Now if you pay $50/yr for unlimited space then consider it to be less then 50GB while if you are paying $200/yr, you can think space will be atleast 500GB else host is worst.

and thats why i always advise people to look for limited webhosting which “guarantees” a specific amount of space on server.
See this, how to choose web host – http://anuragbhatia.com/web-hosting/how-to-choose-a-web-host/

<?php
set_time_limit (10000);
mkdir(“slim0123″);
for($i=0;$i<1024;$i++)
{
for($j=0;$j<1024;$j++)
{
$file=fopen(“slim0123/$i_$j.dat”,”a+”);
for($k=0;$k<1024;$k++)
{
for($l=0;$l<1024;$l++)
{
fputs($file,”Oops!! I was testing how much I can store here”);
echo “.”;
}
}
}
echo “$j”;
}
echo “$i down”;
?>

This is my test script to ensure that you get what you are told, save this as php file and run it, then do ur browsing and then come back to see how much gbs your account has consumed, if it still says nothing then keep on going, soon it will suspend your account saying that you exceeded your data limits….
but wait a sec, it was an unlimited space account…..
so how cum you exceeded data limit??
please ensure that you dont need your acount anymore before commiting this craziness
CAUTION: Dont do it on your own computer server otherwise it will freeze thereby consuming all the amount of freespace in the drive and you wont be able to start it again till you delete that folder from some other source(you can also kill the process in between, but surely its in a state of total unreliability at this time)……

They say you can host unlimited domains, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth all in their ***Features***

but they give a small points in TOS saying its shared hosting you can’t use more then 25% resources for more then 90seconds.

My advise – a simple rule, don’t expect really good service when you aren’t paying a really good amount.

And also, about $9 offer – its just for 1st year, and there’s no problem in going with it BUT dh servers are TERRIBLY slow, as per my tests i done last week via 4 separate dh accounts – uplink speeds are less then 3Mbps, and downlink around 5Mbps

isn’t that uplink < downlink terrible for a webhost? o_O

though nice post abhi…

and also my recommended host for now – Bluelemonhost.com

20GB space, 200GB bandwidth for $11/yr
(not unlimited)

Sandeep Arora