17 Dec, 2008
Well it’s been quite some while I have reveal about Hostmonster server status. Truth is that I’m busy working on some other hosting review websites; but I’m not keeping my eyes close. Anyway, back to our question…
How’s Hostmonster server doing?
I have no problem with Hostmonster hosting service so far. The server I’m on is stable, responsive, and I rarely have to contact the support for helps. However what worries me is that the hard drive usage on my server had been increasing sharply. If you look closely to the diagram, you’ll see the usage of disk2 is over 90% - which is extremely high.
While the heavy usage has not affected any operation of my websites, the data signals that there might be an (serious) overselling issue with the company. Let’s hope this trend won’t be lasting long and hopefully folks at Hostmonster are dealing with the problem by now. I’ll keep you guys posted on the latest server status.
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).
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.
