Hostmonster Scam? Is This Service Honest or Not?
You will find negative reviews about Hostmonster like people writing “Hostmonster Scam” in their titles and that is because a group of people always try to host extremely huge websites on Hosmonster, when their service is not well prepared for these kind of work, but you will find that Hostmonster is a very good service.
Hostmonster Is A Shared Hosting Environment. Hostmonster Scam is false
Hostmonster is a what is known in the hosting industry as a shared hosting environment. That means that when you host your website on their servers, you will share the same server with another websites in order to decrease the total host of hosting to less than $10 a month. A dedicated server, where you will be the only one hosting your websites, tipically will cost you around $300 a month, plus a capable webmaster that will administrate your server.
So, even when computers are very fast today, with each website added to the server, the performance of the server is lowered and that depends on the “load” or the work done by the CPU (the brain of a computer) to server each page of every website. When a given page has a lot of complicated scripts and has to resolve complicated database queries, the performance of the server degrades and all websites become slower.
When any website degrades the performance of the server to 10%, this website is shut down and Hostmonster will gently contact the owner to move to a dedicated server and this is the reason why people write articles with the title: “Hostmonster Scam” and such, because they tell in their publicity that they offer unlimited disk space and bandwidth, but in reality there are limits.
This Is To Simplify Things
To answer those people that write “Hostmonster Scam” in their articles, I must say that offering unlimited resources is the best way to market their services, because very few people understand about bandwidth and disk space, so the unlimited resources thing is very simple. There will be times that someone would want to host a super huge site there and Hostmonster will contact them to move the site, potentially converting him into a disatisfied customer, but that is a matter of life and in this ultra competitive space you have to deal with such things.
So, fear not, people that write “Hostmonster Scam” in their articles are only telling their truth, but in reality Hostmonster is not a scam, but a good service.
March 24th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
I think they are scamming but in a very discreet way, which almost no one can find.
I used to host my own mail servers in-house. I would get maybe 20 spam mails a day. Since I’ve changed to HostMonster, seems they’re pushing their premium anti-spam service awful hard. *like when you login to the CPanel, that’s the first thing you see, and the close for it is hard to find. OK, I can deal with that…
But there are two things that really make me wonder as to their veracity.
1. I seem to be getting about 20 times the spam as I was getting when I was hosting my mail server.
2. Most of the spam emails are carefully scrubbed of their header data which can point back to the I/P address of the sender. I’ve traced many an email, but it seems the large majority of the spam mail I receive is too well crafted to hide the source.
Too much coincidence going on for me.
As soon as I contract expires, I’m canceling and buying 2 new boxes. I’ll be willing to bet my spam count drops back to the 15-20 per day count instead of the 135 a day I’m now getting with Hostmonster.
Scam? Depends on who you talk to, and their definition of scam. Trying to trick somebody into buying something in my book is always a scam
March 24th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Madmike:
It is very unlikely that Hostmonster is sending spam because it doesn’t make sense to risk losing a hosting customer for the pennies they could earn sending thousands of emails.
I never use emails from the hosting companies, since Gmail is much better and I also could use my own domains with Gmail.
Hostmonster Scam? If you are totally straight, you will say yes, but this is like politics, if you tell the exact truth, your chances of being elected reduces drastically. I’m not saying that you have to lie, but telling the exact truth is very risky for 2 reasons:
1. People don’t understand it.
2. People don’t like it.
So, in my view, Hostmonster is not a scam. You can’t grow to this level scamming people. I tried them and their service is good and that is why I built this website.
April 7th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Hostmonster is an excellent service provider I have ever seen in the industry since 2005. Stop all bloody discussions
September 26th, 2011 at 4:50 am
I have been with them for years BUT now that I use CMS websites for business they are threatening me. I’ll be leaving them soon and taking my clients with me.
I’m not hosting HUGE sites. I’m hosting CMS (Joomla) sites, most no more than 6 or 7 pages. But they make files (small files) and require SQL tables. I find that I am being scammed they promise 200 DBs I’m at my limit with 15. Not happy.
September 28th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
With Hostmonster, if you are using a CMS like Wordpress, it is very advisable that you use the plugin called: “WP-SuperCache” that alleviates the server a lot. Basically it converts the PHP driven website as it was a simple HTML website.
November 12th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
They entered my PayPal account and withdrew funds from my account without my authorization ASSUMING that I was renewing. I never got a chance to even review what their proposed hosting features would be. STAY AWAY from this company. You have been warned.
November 24th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Patrick
Most hosting providers will assume the renewal of the service by default. All Paypal payments that are for renewable services are shown as “suscriptions”, which you could deactivate at any time if you wish.