What the heck does "Unlimited" actually mean?

What do you mean "Unlimited"?
What we mean is, you don't have to worry about disk storage or network transfer when your site gets popular.

Trust us, every host out there has exactly the same limitations.. we're just trying to be up front about them!

What's not allowed in "Unlimited"? Basically, sites whose essential purpose is to use disk or bandwidth.

When making a website, you should be thinking about "How can I make an interesting site for my visitors while minimizing my server storage, bandwidth, file system, memory, and CPU impact as much as possible?"

The result will be a better experience for your visitors, your web host, and yourself!

You DO still have to worry about plenty of other things though... if your site isn't well optimized and is causing issues for others on your shared server (either because it's pounding the CPU, hogging RAM, or doingtons of disk I/O), your account may get cancelled.

Here are some specific examples of things not allowed:

Copyrighted content you are not the copyright holder of. Obviously! File upload / sharing / archive / backup / mirroring /distribution sites. A site created primarily to drive traffic to another site. Making your account resources available (whether for free or pay) to the general public. While many of these can be legitimate, they are just not appropriate or allowed under this basic account.

Hey, that doesn't sound very "Unlimited" to me! Actually, for you, Mr. Average Website Owner, it is unlimited. And that mean 99.9% of web site owners – personal and business.

This whole page is just to announce to the <.1% of people who want to try and run free porn affiliate sites or anime video trading forums or host pirated rips of The Dark Knight on AlternaiveHosts that we're not having any.

But our pledge to you is to do our best to always keep your website, with the content you created, UP... no matter how many times you get slash dotted, dugg, or win the DHSOTM!