Web hosting
Unlimited web hosting: what “unlimited” really means
No physical hosting platform has infinite resources. When a hosting plan says “unlimited,” the useful work is finding which resource is not metered directly and which other limits still define normal use.
Storage and transfer are only two dimensions
A provider may choose not to meter a particular storage or bandwidth value while still enforcing CPU, RAM, disk I/O, process, inode, database, email, or concurrency limits. Those controls are necessary on shared infrastructure.
Acceptable-use rules still apply
Shared hosting is normally designed for website workloads, not unlimited archival storage, public file distribution, compute jobs, or services that continuously monopolize shared resources. Read the product limits and acceptable-use policy together.
Predictable numbers are easier to plan around
For growing applications, explicit limits can be more useful than an unlimited label because they make capacity and upgrade decisions measurable. Ask what happens when a limit is reached and whether the provider exposes usage information.
Choose around the bottleneck your application actually has
A media-heavy site may care about storage and transfer. A dynamic store may care more about PHP workers, CPU, database latency, and memory. Compare the resources that affect your application rather than the biggest number in the plan table.