QUOTE (CryingRaven @ May 25 2006, 03:27 PM) I am currently getting my webspace from www.heartinternet.co.uk and they offer a £30 pm deal or a £300 annually that not only includes unlimited webspace, but also unlimited bandwidth.
There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. Just think about it for a second. You can always use more bandwidth but that bandwidth is not magical. You need hardware to support it.
Lets say you have a rack with a 100Mb link. The rack owner uses more that that, so they upgrade to Gigabit. After a while, you need to throw out the gigabit backbone and replace it with 10 Gig fiber. When that is not enough, you are preatty much out of luck. The only easy option is to add multiple backplanes with spllitted network, more performant network card, etc, etc. (I gave the bandwidth example, but processing power is also the same, disk is easier. Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth/processing power are expensive!)
As you see, its a infinite wheel. There is no limit with what you can do with hardware. The only limit is money. Since your provider will need to cover their expense, there is a limit. Because if they don't cover their expense, because if they don't they will close down soon.