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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by ideonexus on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:37PM (#9270929)
Amazon may actually be fair and enforce this legitimately, but I was once burned badly by the promise of "Unlimited Storage." Bluehost offered this, always with an asterisk*, and I assumed it was legitimate. So I tried to upload 20 gigs of home videos and family photos to share with my relatives.

Next thing I know, all of my sites are 404ing, and when I call Bluehost, the tech tells me they shut down my hosting service because I was "abusing their unlimited storage." Then they pointed me to the asterisk that says unlimited storage isn't really unlimited and is whatever they feel like it should be on a case-by-case basis. Then I had to sit there on the phone with them and delete all my recently uploaded files before they would put my websites back online.

caveat emptor

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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by crazy1van on Thursday March 26, 2015 @01:23PM (#9271406)
Had this happen to me in the 90's with a dial up internet provider. The ISP said it was unlimited usage. So we had a second phone line in our house online a big chunk of the day. Eventually we got a bill with a very large "dedicated line fee" because we were dialed in too much. After enough complaining they removed the charge, but it was a good lesson that "unlimited" services backed by a finite resource are never truly unlimited.
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