Comments on: HostMonster

By: James Ford

James Ford — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:31:00 +0000

Overall, I am happy with the service that I have received from Hostmonster over the last two years. I purchased a domain as well as two years of hosting. From the hosting I had unlimited bandwidth, near unlimited storage and a few thousand email accounts. I found that all of the impressive features of this web host were easy to use and to navigate through their impressive cPanel, which is why I have rated the useability so high. If there is one downside, it is that I felt that the prices were rather high, when compared to other hosts such as HostGator. I found that another strong point of this host was their customer support – when I first purchased this package and domain I had a small issue with the payment, but thanks to their admirable customer support, the issue was quickly dealt with. I found the reliability and uptime of this web host was generally very good, and with the exception of a few small time periods my website was never offline. My website was based on graphic design, and I had a fair few visitors to my site on a regular basis. As previously mentioned the unlimited bandwidth that I received meant that all of these people could access my website with ease. Another strongpoint of this web host was their interface for the uploading of files to their server; I found it very easy to use and to navigate, and the speeds at which my files were uploaded were also very pleasing. In summary, I am very pleased with the service that I have received from Hostmonster, but if there is one problem that I encountered, it was the price of the service. However, once could argue that this price is appropriate for the premium service that you receive. I look forward to purchasing more hosting in the future from Hostmonster.

By: Thomas Martin

Thomas Martin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:29:29 +0000

I am very impressed with the service I received from Hostmonster. I purchased a year of hosting with a domain, and I never encountered any problems. I purchased this package over a year ago, after seeing an advertisement saying that Hostmonster had the best hosting service around, and after I have used it, I find I cannot help but agree. Customer support was always available if I needed assistance, and the cPanel was very easy to use. The website that I made was a website devoted to a popular American Television show, and I found that the hosting package that I chose was very effective, because I had unlimited bandwidth, which meant that I could have as many visitors to my site as I wanted. In addition I also had something like 100gb storage, which meant that I could store files there with ease. The interface to transfer files from my computer to the Hostmonster server was also very easy to use, as well as having incredibly fast upload speeds. In conclusion, I am very happy with the service that I received, and I will look forward to purchasing a similar website hosting service from this company in the near future.

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:27:48 +0000

Hostmonster was a boon to me and it solved all my problems related to web hosting. Not all web hosting services are reliable and hostmonster is one exception which stands against all criticism. The packages offered by them are very attractive mainly because they are so cheap and provide all that you expect from any good web hosting service.In fact no other web hosting company offers such cheap packages compared to hostmonster.

Talking about hostmonster, the main strength of this web hosting service lies in its forums where you can find help anytime you need but at the same time this is the same place where hostmonster goes down as well. The customer support is not the same all the time and sometimes you have wait long time before you are answered by your customer care executive.

Many people outside the United States feel inconvenient about this as they end up paying high phone bills. Also the security of hostmonster is not the best compared to other reliable service providers.

Other than these so called disadvantages, which I am sure wouldn’t disturb anyone keen on business; everything else works great with host monster web hosting services. A decent hosting service according to me, which has rooms for improvement.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:47:24 +0000

I don’t want to be harsh, but this company is terrible. I deeply regret going with this hosting and it was a complete waste of my time and money. All my designs and scripts that worked on the server were gone, after I was accused of ‘abusing’ the resources. I found out about the ‘abuse’ after the files were deleted. They clearly neglected to let me know that I was reaching my limits. But I thought that I did not have limits, because I signed for the unlimited space and bandwidth package. One everything was deleted; I did not bother trying to contact them to get my money back. So, I just canceled my membership and switched to another hoster. Since then I always read the terms and conditions. It was a horrible experience and will not recommend anyone going with this hosting.

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:36:57 +0000

I once asked a colleague to help repairing the application log on HostMonster, a popular host that has huge capacity and broad bandwidth with super cheap price. After an investigation, I concluded, its session not running well. It can write a session, but the session can not be displayed even with print_r ($ _SESSION).

I had complained about this to a mailing list, although because of limited information and no one who has the same problem with me, so I did not get the solution.

I immediately contacted HostMonster CS through web chat. Bit nervous because my simple English communication ability. But because of my dead end efforts, I finally contacted CS. It turns out he understood my problem. And for whatever reason, it resume to normal session. I really wanted to ask what exactly the problem is, but he had quickly ended the conversation. Good record for a web hosting.

By: andika

andika — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:14:07 +0000

I knew hostmonster from my friend. I have tried many web hostings but the result was bad. Hostmonster is the best hosting service I have ever used. The features looked good and it seemed to have a fast, reliable server. I have used their service for six months. I do not have any problem with them. I have used them to host almost all my blogs.

Their Support is great as well. They never failed to reply to my queries within 12 hours. I am really satisfied. I absolutely recommend this site if you are looking for a good web hosting company.

By: JustinS

JustinS — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:59:20 +0000

I was a HostMonster customer for several years and was, generally speaking, happy with the service. You’d be hard pressed to find another host that offers comparable services in this price range. For around $8/month (billed quarterly), I had the ability to create an unlimited number of subdomains, add-on domains, etc., so any time I had a hint of an idea for an available domain name, I could run right over to my registrar and pick it up. They gave you cPanel access and, if you sent ID, SSH access to your account.

There definitely were more than a few times when I had to contact their support team about problems. A couple of times, their scripts to create new DNS records for addon domains failed. Every now and then, I’d see a service outage. All that said, though, their support team usually responded pretty quickly to tickets generated through their support system and I was always satisfied by their reactions.

All in all, I’d say HostMonster was definitely worth the price of admission. If you need 5 9′s of uptime, maybe this isn’t the right host, but for Joe Blogger…? Perfect fit. The only reason I’m not still a customer is that I eventually got a better deal (free hosting) through an event. Otherwise, I’d still be sending HostMonster money.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:21:10 +0000

OK, but be aware of renewal fee: First year is very affordable but after that prices rise!