K, now I'm blank its like I've said all I wanted to say right in the title.

Oh well let me think, yea this concept of unlimited offers is one I am never down with. Personally, when I start seeing unlimited space offers from any web host I start losing interest in their credibility.

Can disk space really be unlimited? Can your local hard drive store unlimited data? C'mon its common sense. Ok here's what I'm thinking: If I get to host my site on one of these unlimited space plans with a hosting company and I upload about 500GB of data (what the heck, its unlimited so don't give me that look), do you think the host company won't call me up and be like. . .errh. . .dude, 500GB on your account? c'mon you raping our server mehn.
If its a Nigerian host company, they will swear juju for you sharply no dulling

So what's the point of offering the public something you cant truly give? What's the point of lying?

Fact: No storage medium can be truly unlimited in its capacity. (prove me wrong and we'll do some bottle tonight all on me)

Well now some hosts have coined the term "unmetered". This is as per bandwidth (data transfer). Its been seen as a safe word because they are not promising you anything as unlimited, its just unmetered. Some are clever enough to put you on a 100Mbit connection and cap it once they see you start taking undue advantage of the "unmetered" concept. This concept is another lie. How can something be "unmetered" and you still get to know when I'm "overusing" it and you then cap my connection from 100Mbit to 10Mbit?

I host my sites with hostmonster.  Everything there is "unlimited" - emails, storage, bandwidth.  I have about 20 clients under my main account and my main hog is images.

I doubt everything is actually unlimited.   What I think happens is, they have done research to know what the average amount ppl use is, maybe plus or minus a certain percentage.  They then bank on the fact that many won't exceed this.  If you are on a shared host, they then distribute the storage amongst accounts, robbing peter to pay paul, so to speak.

Case in point:
Again, I said everything is "unlimited" under my plan.  Looking at the "usage" area, I see that I am actually limited to 5000 email accounts, 1000 ftp accounts and 100 sql databases to mention but a few.  Looking at this, technically, I don't see how I will even reach 1000 email accounts when you consider that in 4 years of using hostmonster, I have only managed to use 20 emails 

I even tell my clients they get unlimited everything but in reality, many clients get, at the most 1 email (info@) account so I guess the "deceit" trickles down from the top 

So my broda, na legal scam, a.k.a "scheme" (na you use your hand sign d contract as opposed to naija style).  According to all the laws of economics, nothing is unlimited, well, maybe except for our wants.

My brother God bless you this is common challenges we are having in this industry.
Technically, there is no such thing as “unlimited” bandwidth, and in practical terms simply indicates that there is not a hard limit on bandwidth usage, rather an understanding that reasonable bandwidth usage is always permitted.
Unfortunately, it could easily be abused for those webhosting provider who don't know how or have the resources to back the claim up.
Is best to pay for a particular disk space and know what you paid for than trying to get something for nothing and end up with nothing for something.

It all boils down to credibility. Unfortunately, many Nigerians believe everything foreigners say.

There is nothing like unlimited disk space. The only unlimited thing you can get is bandwidth and before you get that then you must have paid a decent amount to justify that.

Web hosting software tools come with the feature to allow you list the advertised features and then the actual quotas.

People who find it hard to believe facts usually lose their cash and by the time they understand the facts it is usually late for them.

unlimited disk space offers are a sleight of hand. they take advantage of customers' ignorance.

Disk cant be unlimited. I have used many host that offer unlimited space. When you have a certain number of files, they will suspend your account.

I will post an email from one of them later as my email refused to open now.