Verizon Admits that their Unlimited Data Plan is Limited to 5GB Per Month

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Yeah, but saying you have "unlimited" internet access, and then saying you can ONLY use it for email and browsing the web kinda sucks. And that the only way you can use more than 5gb/month is if you're doing something illegal is worse.

But read between the lines: Carriers like Verizon still make their money in high-margin voice calls and text messaging fees. They would lose that revenue if you could use IM and Skype over their data network. Same for streaming video: Verizon really just doesn't want you using a competitor's IPTV product instead of their own.

They think they deserve a cut of the revenue for content sent over their network, even though all they're doing is giving you Internet access. This is what Net Neutrality is all about.

And on a shared hosting account you can host unlimited domains. I won't name them, but on company with the word "host" in it's name spelled out in the T & C that each account is limited to 30,000 individual files. If each site only had one page/file how could I host an unlimited number of domains?

Anyone have the number for the FTC?

"If each site only had one page/file how could I host an unlimited number of domains?"

You could generate them dynamically.

You still need a file to generate them. Unless you could get all the domains to point to the same documentroot or use a symlink or something.

Anyway, hosting companies like that massively oversell their capacity knowing that most people won't use it. If you actually tried to put up 30,000 (or, heck, even 300) active domains, the server would probably just die under the load.

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