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!
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.
30 Sep, 2008
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.
23 Sep, 2008
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.
