Comments on: HostMonster: Over reacting on scam alert?

By: cristiano nogueira

cristiano nogueira — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:02:22 +0000

Yes, hostmonster sucks when it comes to treating the customer with respect. I have been with them for 5 years, and today got my 43 domains deactivated, with a meager “malware/virus on your account” explanation. Since I obviously wouldnt install anything like that in my account, I had no idea what they were talking about. they could have been more specific.

While trying to get support they treat you like criminals, regardless of your history of patronage.

After 44mins on the phone to talk to a tech specialist (yes, they dropped the line 3 times) someone was able to help the minimum sufficient for me to spend a few hours trying to figure it out for myself.

Stay away unless you want the headaches.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:13:16 +0000

Hostmonster is scam. They are completely clueless idiots. I had cancelled all my websites there and today – after almost 9 months later… I get an invoice for a renewal. I got enough and will inform the BBB and local authorities about their fraudulent approach. Hopefully they will be taken out of business.

Tom

By: Doni

Doni — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:22:30 +0000

Hey who said the hostmonster is scam, it’s not. I had the same problem with account verification but they want to make it sure that you haven’t used any stolen CC or PayPal… so you can send to verification only last digits of your credit card snaped and you erase other numbers, and your ID.
This is the secure way they work on.
Sincerely,
Liridon Agushi

By: hostmonster

hostmonster — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:55:42 +0000

yes hostmonster is scam people…please don’t try to be their client… i have another website to lunarpages.com they work perfect
but hostmonster require your creditcard to attach and to send them by mail, this is scam, please stop being their client

By: Tim Stevens

Tim Stevens — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:14:04 +0000

The security at Hostmonster is terrible. My site has been hacked 3 times, and completely shut down from it. I spent 6 months getting top ranking first page for several keywords, and now no ranking at all. What a waste of time. Who do you go after with a law suit for this type of F up?

By: Kanito

Kanito — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:54:25 +0000

Guys, please note BlueHost and HostMonster actually are the same company. Same boss, same datacenter, same IP, and same price, the only diffrence is the name.

By: calm

calm — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:28:18 +0000

Thank you very much for your response and suggestion .

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:42:58 +0000

@Calm:

Lunarpages, BlueHost, and Hostgator are the other three that're topping my list.

I wouldn't recommend Bluehost here as they are managed by the same management with Hostmonster. Thus it'll be either Lunarpages or Hostgator. For budget hosting, I think Lunarpages is the best as their monthly subscription ($4.95/mo) is the lowest. Although they are not offering unlimited bandwidth/disk storage, but 1500GB/15,000GB of disk storage/data transfer should be more than enough.

To visit these web hosts online: www.Lunarpages.com, www.BlueHost.com, and, www.Hostgator.com.

By: calm

calm — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:09:34 +0000

Above you have said

“I have been working with more than 10 web hosting companies (yes, using the same credit card and details) and I had never faced such issues (information abused) before”.

Can you please tell the names of those web hosting companies with whom you are working but their you did not face such issues.

These days I am looking for opening a new account with a good host but I prefer a hassle free account activation.

Thanks.