HostMonster is yet another company offering web hosting services in the budget-priced category. Is there anything to distinguish HostMonster from all the rest? Do they really offer hosting plans with the features of a VPS at a more affordable price, as their home page claims? You’ll find out by reading this review.
Is HostMonster the Same as BlueHost?
For the most part, HostMonster is BlueHost with a different brand (in fact, if you search for HostMonster on Wikipedia.org, you will be directed to an entry on BlueHost). These sister companies are both part of the huge hosting conglomerate, Endurance International Group, which includes lots of other brands such as iPage, HostGator, JustHost, FatCow and many others. Between HostMonster, BlueHost and the third “sister”, FastDomain, they represent one of the biggest hosting services in the world, hosting over 1.9 million domains worldwide.
Both BlueHost and HostMonster are headquartered in Provo, Utah and share more similarities than differences, including the same physical address.
However, HostMonster maintains its own social media presence on Twitter and Facebook. Updates are sporadic, but at least it appears someone is trying to maintain the pages to provide information about downtime, attacks and changes, etc. BlueHost does a far better of engaging users via social media and they enjoy a much larger fan base and active pages.
Hosting Packages
Both the BlueHost and the HostMonster brands offer pretty much the exact same product (shared hosting service) at the same price (from .95 per month). Like so many other companies in the hosting business these days, you get unlimited domains, space, bandwidth and site file transfers. The company also started to offer dedicated and VPS hosting recently. With an upgrade to VPS (price starts at .99/mo) and dedicated hosting (price starts at 9.99/mo), your site will be hosted on faster servers, ave access to a few more features and be able to use more CPU and memory.
For additional information about the specifics of HostMonster hosting packages, please refer to our
Will HostMonster Throttle Your Site?
If you have ever heard the term “CPU throttling” chances are it was in conjunction with BlueHost web hosting. Just as HostMonster shares packages, pricing and features with BlueHost, it also shares the other company’s tendency to reduce the amount of resources to a particular site if they determine it is using too many of the resources on a shared server.
It could also be that you have uploaded too many files; the limit on the amount of “unlimited” files is actually 200,000. Going over this limit could result in CPU throttling of your site, as well.
Likely you won’t even realize your website has been throttled unless you start getting complaints from visitors about page loading time and/or downtime.
The worst part of this practice is that HostMonster doesn’t always identify the correct website. Your site could suffer when it isn’t even causing the issue. For more information about CPU throttling, refer again to my BlueHost review or Jerry’s previous post:
Updates From Jerry Low
We still hold the test account on Hostmonster at this time of writing and use it to host a mini site named Hostmonster Secret Revealed. The site receives less than 100 visitors per day and our account is actively receiving CPU throttling on daily basis. I used to like Hostmonster very much, but after reading more than hundred of complaints in my the HostMonster/BlueHost CPU throttling post, I can never say that anymore. I have no idea why BlueHost/HostMonster management is allowing this to happen but I hope they will fix it some day in the future.
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