Still care about diskspace in a hosting plan?

Tarun Dua
May 19, 2022
1 min read

Shared Hosting So do you get excited by shared hosting plans that mention un-limited bandwidth and un-limited diskspace or thousands of GiB of diskspace with thousands of GiB of bandwidth ? There are practical limits to un-limited though. You can store theoretically store Terabytes of data but when would you finish uploading it though ? and it can't all be served because sufficient number of storage IOPS(IO operations per second ) are simply not available on shared hosting plans, you are probably sharing a machine with several hundred others and eventually everyone's site ends up slow because there is not sufficient CPU/disk IOPS and memory available to your site to utilize the supposedly huge bandwidth and diskspace allowance.