By: Shawn Culver
HostMonster has been in the business of providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal websites since 1996.
Hostmonster professional hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high quality service at a fraction of the cost.
HostMonster specializes in customer satisfaction. REAL 24/7 Non-outsourced support with average hold times under 2 minutes. A sister site of BlueHost.
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Visit http://hostmonster.com for full details.
Suprisingly Good Service
I’ve been with HostMonster.com for about a year now. I can honestly say I am always surprised by their high level of tech support–troubleshooting things like a Symfony installation using CLI–just stuff you wouldn’t expect such an inexpensive host to do! They even resolved my issue installing Interspire software within a matter of minutes. If you’re looking for best value with good support–I highly recommend HostMonster.com. If you need a higher level of control over your environment, I suggest looking at a higher priced dedicated host.
2 Years And Still Happy With HostMonster
I simply can’t say enough good things about Hostmonster. I give them a 5 out of a possible 5 rating on every criteria. If there was a way to rate them 10 out of 5, I’d do that too. I am so very impressed with their customer service reps and tech support reps alike I am constantly recommending HostMonster to my friends and colleagues. What a refreshing change from (I won’t mention actual names but maybe you’ll guess), GoFlatty where you are constantly solicited to upgrade, add on or prepay on every tech support call and then cheerfully ask if they can send you a survey – OR OLN who still uses faxes to update credit card information for hosting accounts – and well the list is 12 deep over the last 12 years. Thankfully I did some serious research and asking around in a lot of web design forums etc this time, and the people in the trenches told me “HOST MONSTER” Dude! You’ll never look back. And I haven’t yet.
Best deal for your money
Hostmonster is a US company with their customer support in the US. Many other servers offer unlimited storage and transfer, but do not support streaming media. Hostmonster does. As one of the top hosting companies for their price, I have found only three downfalls 1- although permitting streaming media, for other tasks, there is *limited CPU usage per request, 2- *physical location of servers are all in one place (with low possibility of destruction due to natural disaster) -3 limited number of databases. IF you can overlook those three details, Hostmonster has the best customer service and features for the price.
One of the Worst Host
There is nothing good to say about them. They lure and trick customers with unlimited bandwidth, but even a little traffic on your site will cause suspension any time without notice and you will lose patience as well as business. Nobody will listen. Keep away.
Hostmonster, be very careful
Hostmonster is just another name for BlueHost. Check out the web for the many many poor reviews of BlueHost. Why? Because they are disreputable. Check this out. Go to google and search for “best web hosting” Top of the list will be “www.Top-10-Web-Hosting.com”. In that site, Bluehost is praised! Now, do a whois on Bluehost (www.whois.com) and search the output for “Bluehost”. You’ll see that bluehost setup this review site to blow their own trumpet. That’s okay but they are trying to get you to believe the review is objective. If they will do this to get your business, they have more sinister ideas in mind once they have you hooked. STAY AWAY from these guys and their aka’s. You WILL be sorry.
You get what you pay for
What you get in first place is a terrible site performance, aborted jobs like backups. They lie in their sales process and their support is clueless. It was the worst decision I made in a long time to give this cheap “company” a try. Unreliable, slow, technically incompetent but cheap – if that is what you look for, go ahead, otherwise stay away from this waste of time and money.
Service note: In reviewing comments for HostMonster I found about 50% of the comments to be negative (100+ comments), it seems when your site starts getting a lot of traffic HostMonster gets rid of you. HostMonster is ok if you have a simple low traffic website, I don’t recommend using them for a business website.
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