3 Nov, 2008
I had updated you guys on my Hostmonster server performance for the past few months. You can find the server performance report here , here , here , and here .
As I’m not the only one tracking on Hostmonster server status, here’s the Hostmonster server report by WebHosting-Analyse . Note that Hostmonster hit a record of 99.59% server uptime for the first week of October. The server performance seems excellent and it’s proportional with my record.
In case you wish to learn more about Hostmonster server performance and uptime review, why not check out Hostmonster yourself? After all, they have a very clear refund policy and you can refund on your order if you find anything improper with them.
Also, at the time of writing, Hostmonster is giving out *huge* promotion to win market segment in hosting industry - you’ll get unlimited bandwidth/disk storage/addon domains for all their customers with just $6.95 $5.95/mo (latest updates, on promo).
5 Oct, 2008
It’s been 6 months since my Hostmonster review project started. As mentioned before, I’m pretty happy with what I’m getting from Hostmonster except the over-sensitive scam alerts.
Thru out the 6 months, I’d been checking constantly on Hostmonster server uptime, tracking on the website load time as well the server loads. There were a lot of noise when Hostmonster offers unlimited bandwidth/disk storage at the beginning as web owners are worried by the nightmare of overselling.
Fortunately, I am not having any of these problems. The worries of this and that remained as just, well, worries. The server uptime had been respectable; the website load time is a little slow sometime (most probably because I am accessing it accross the globe from Asia) but nothing’s major; and their hosting plan remained top in the industry.
Is Hostmonster still good? The answer is yes, it’s still recommended.
Hostmonster reviews by other websites
Besides telling you my experience with Hostmonster, I would like to share some of the reviews I found from the Internet. One of the best reviews I got is from www.BestHostRating.com where it keep tracks of the Hostmonster’s server uptime 24/7.
For the ease to review, here’s the screen cap of Hostmonster’s uptime at BestHostRating. Notice that the uptime for Hostmonster achieve at least 99.5% thru out the months.
Awards won by Hostmonster
Another positive signs on Hostmonster hosting service is the outrages amount of awards won by Hostmonster.
It took me a while to search around the Internet and here’s the compiled list of Hostmonster’s awards:
- Best Web Hosting Award 2008: WebHostingClue.com
- Best Web Host Award 2008: AlreadyHosting.com
- Best Web Host Award 2008: Top-10-Web-Hosting.com
- Best Web Hosting Award 2006: Web-Hosting-Top.com
- Most Reliable Hosting 2006: Hosting-Review.com
- #2 Overall Best Web Host 2006: Top10WebHosting.com
- #2 Best Rated Web Host 2006: Top-5-Web-Hosting.com
- #2 Rated Best Web Host 2006: Hostcritique.com
Hostmonster: A recommended web hosting service
So again, is Hostmonster good? Hell yeah~ I am seeing good words on Hostmonster everywhere and I’m having good results in testing the web host first hand myself. In case you’re wondering about which host to go with, stop wondering and get Hostmonster now!
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:
