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:
25 Jul, 2008
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.
24 Jun, 2008
Unlike the old cPanel user control, you will need to enable the Awstats features manually in the control panel.
Look for the icon named “Choose Log Program” inside cPanel.
There will be a list of websites when you get into “Choose Log Program” along side with a series of check box. Click on the appropriate box that you wish to track using Awstats or Webalizer. Press save changes, the Awstats (or Webalizer) will start tracking your web stats after then.
19 Jun, 2008
At the time of writing, HostMonster runs two versions of MySQL on their servers – MySQL 4 Servers and MySQL 5 Servers. Users may check their control panel to verify which version of MySQL is running on their server.
The MySQL version on my Hostmonster account, for example, is the 5.0.45-community-log version.
How do you check the MySQL version at your server?
When you login to your Hostmonster account, you will notice a sidebar at the left. Scroll down a little and you’ll get a line reads ‘MySQL Version’. That’s where you can check what version of MySQL is running on your web server.
For detail reference, please check print-screen below.
