3 Oct, 2008
Ever heard about ‘Overselling’? Well if you haven’t, there’s a informative website that you should take a look at: No OverSelling Hosts (www.noshosts.com) .
www.noshosts.com is the few websites that are busting the ‘overselling activities’ in web hosting industry. You can learn how to catch an overselling hosting company as well as shop for no-oversell-certified hosting companies.
What’s overselling anyway?
Quoting Wikipedia’s definition ,
Overselling is a term used in the web hosting industry to describe a situation in which a company provides hosting plans that are unsustainable if every one of its customers uses the full extent of services advertised. The term is usually referred to the web space and bandwidth transfer allowance.
This practice usually incurs little ill-effect since most customers do not use any significant portion of their allocated share. If a customer has a small, low-traffic site serving static HTML pages, few resources will be used. If a customer wishes to run a high-traffic, professional, or business website an oversold hosting account can be detrimental. In these cases, a shared hosting provider that does not oversell, a virtual private server or dedicated server is a preferred option.
"Overselling" is always a huge concerns for web hosting shoppers. Overselling allows web hosting companies to operate more efficiently. When done properly, overselling is in fact benefiting the customers with lower hosting costs and extra hosting features.
Some readings around www.noshosts.com:
2 Oct, 2008
Well, it’s not just me recommending Hostmonster. Check out this recent positive feedback by a Hostmonster customer named Jordan Ancel, owner of the TinkerStreet Creative Group, LLC from Los Angeles, CA.
Excellent Value, Excellent Service
"Over the last few years, I have tried a few of the top ten webhosting companies for various clients, and I have found that HOSTMONSTER has provided the best customer service, uptime and features overall. Now they offer unlimited domain hosting, and I have migrated all of my numerous accounts to Hostmonster. They are reliable and their customer service is top-notch. "
- Review made on Sep 26, 2008.
I hope this strengthen your faith with Hostmonster services. In case you haven’t check out their latest hosting promotion, it’s wise to do so quickly as the $150 marketing credit offer could be expiring any soon. To learn more about Hostmonster deal, click here.
1 Oct, 2008
Some of you guys might be experienced a site down during these few days as Hostmonster is merging some of their servers (As reported by HM customer: Host300) to a new box.
You would be seeing this error message if your website is affected:
"The website you are visiting is currently offline due to system maintinance.
In order to give the best filesystem performance possible, and to ensure the integrity of data, a diagnostic process is being performed, and any inconsistencies will be repaired. This process may take approximately 30 to 60 minutes."
Fortunately, this site is not affected but in case you’re worry about yours, you can always check your server status here: http://serverstatus.hostmonster.com
A few minutes back I was talking with the technical guy at HM and he told me that a few thousands of sites were down due to this planned upgrades and he assure me that the websites will be back in roughly 30 minutes. Good thing about it is that all websites affected will be directed to a splash page indicating the problem.
