Lately, Hostmonster has been criticized because of their publicity stating that they offer unlimited resources while shutting down accounts for excessive use of resources and in this article we will explain why although this seems like contradictory, it has sense.
Technical Things Difficult to Understand
Technical descriptions are easy understandable by those that has a los of experience in the field, they easily know how much is 100GB of disk space, or 1 terabyte of bandwidth, but the Hosting industry lately is very “average consumer” driven, so most people that saw those numbers, really didn’t knew what they were reading and support costs were very expensive because of this. This is not much of a problem when you are a small company, but when you are a large corporation, the support costs of this could be staggering and that is why Hostmonster decide to put “unlimited resources” in their publicity, but this physical world don’t allow you to offer such a thing, so they decided to put limits on other things. In Hostmonster you won’t have disk limits, but you have a limit on the number of files you could create, which is 50 thousand. fifty thousand files is a lot, but certaily is not “unlimited”. The same happens with bandwidth. For those who are ne to this, bandwidth is the quantity of information that go out of your account to your clients computers. For example: if your website “weights” 50k bytes of information, then each time you receive a visitor to your website you will consume 50k bandwidth. This also happens when you read emails, send emails and with all your Internet activity with your account and the activity your visitors do when visiting your website. Each time someone visits your website, there is CPU consumption as well and although is very low for each visit, it adds up if you have a lot of visitors to your Hostmonster account. Hostmonster limits the CPU usage of all your website to 5% of all the resources allocated to your server and when you reach any of the limits, you will be contacted to move to another place.
Fierce Competition
This happens because of extremely fierce competition in the Hosting space ans because technology is complicated to explain to average people, but although you may think that Hostmonster is at fault here, I think that you shouldn’t blame Hostmonster for this, because they offer excellent support, have many loyal customers and makes hosting services affordable to all people, specially for the ones that want to host more than one domains on their accounts because their offer to host unlimited number of domains per account, which makes them extremely affordable for everyone.
All said and done, you won’t find a better deal than Hostmonster and a more trustable company like them because they are offering the shared hosting service for more 14 years now and approaching the 1 million domain names hosted on their servers, which is not easily done, even if you are a veteran in this super competitive space. So go for Hostmonster, you won’t regret and your budget will thank you.