HostMonster Web Hosting Package

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.

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.

July 2008, BlueHost Inc. announced that its combined hosting platforms of BlueHost.com and HostMonster.com have surpassed 1,000,000 domains hosted. In case you don’t know, BlueHost and HostMonster are managed by the same management, headquartered in Orem, Utah. The brand “HostMonster” was spun off from the BlueHost in year 2005 to target different markets and help expand the growth of the company.

Interested to learn more about Bluehost/Hostmonster? Visit Bluehost online.

Out of random curiosity, I decided to run a quick check on Hostmonster and Bluehost popularity in Google Insights. And here’s the results I found:

How does Hostmonster perform compare to Bluehost?

Obviously, Hostmonster is no where near to Bluehost in term of popularity.

While the growth trend looks more or less the same, Hostmonster is still way behind of Bluehost, losing 30 points behind Bluehost. The main reason for this, is of course because of the late-coming of Hostmonster in the business. More over, Bluehost’s affiliate program (both in-house and CJ.com) had been running for a long time – where top affiliates had already attached with the company. It makes no sense to switch promoting other hosting company where Bluehost is still at the top of its class.

Considering these facts, Hostmonster growth rate is, in fact, pretty respectable. They were rising from no where and growing fast for the first three years. I expect Hostmonster to grow better – provided that they remain (or keep improving) their current hosting services.

Here’s how Hostmonster’s server status looks like today:

The results?

Everything looks good and I remain positive on Hostmonster server performance – after all, I’m hosting websites on Hostmonster itself and I found no problem in maintaining and accessing my websites, why shouldn’t I like Hostmonster?

The disk storage issue with Hostmonster servers

There were some minor worries about Hostmonster’s disk storage being overloaded during June, but things had improved much in September.

Referring to the figure besides, you’ll see all the hardware are in healthy level.

Well that’s all for the moment, I’ll be updating you on the server’s situation in future.

I am sure you are tired checking out dozens of web hosts accross the web, jotting down notes on their features and pricing. Well let me help you up here – check out the list below for the pricing and hoting features for reputated web hosting companies.

Which web host do I recommend?

Beside Hostmonster; Hostgator, Bluehost, and Lunarpages. Pricing is an important consideration when it comes to picking up the right web host but bare in mind that it is NOT THE ONLY consideration point. The quality of customer support, hosting features, server stability, etc etc should be as well in your check list.