Have you ever seen a hosting company offer unlimited space and bandwidth on a hosting package. We’re all intelligent enough to know that’s not true, right? I hope so.

Site 5 has a ‘Freedom’ package running for the 4th of July where they guarantee a $5/mo hosting package (when paid for 5 years in advance) and you get unlimited space and bandwidth. Unlimited bandwidth I can see, it starts over every month and it’s really hard to use up gobs of it. But unlimited space?

BTW, if you’re sold on this Freedom package, or any other package they have, make sure to use this link when you sign up so I can make $85. You only have to stay for 2 months for me to make it, so if you’re paying $14.95 per month and stay for 2 months, how do they make any money?

I don’t understand Site5’s ideas on selling hosting, but it’s working for them. Or so it seems. I’ve seen many large companies go bankrupt, who knows where their profit margin is.

But, there’s a difference between unlimited and unmetered. Unlimited means it is limitless, nothing can stop you. If you want to upload 999 terabytes, you go right ahead. Screw anyone else on the server. But unmetered means they don’t limit you, but you are restricted by the limits of the server. I wouldn’t trust a company that tells me I can have unlimited space.

To let you know, The Blog World was recently moved to a reseller on Site5. I don’t like to host my sites on my own servers because I don’t want to be the cause of client downtime and I couldn’t justify having that dedicated server anymore. Since I have started with Site5 I haven’t noticed any downtime (but really, when have I been around?) and I have been hacked. I have never had a site hacked until I came here. I do intend to move when the time allows it because I like security.