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HostMonster’s ready to take care of even the most demanding websites with support for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, custom php.ini settings, custom .htaccess settings, and PostgreSQL databases.
Posted on: January 8, 2007
Filed under: Reviews, Shared Hosts



23 Reviews
KDisk
May 19th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Great hostign Site, The only complaint that I have have is the limit to 1 CPannel Accounts. It also includes 1 SSH Shell Account
John
August 20th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Excellent service. Instant help no matter what time of day. Very helpful setting up features they dont support. The best providers I have ever used in the last 9 years
Chewru Guru
April 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
We’ve been using Hostmonster on Chewru for several months now. Support times are good, I like their $10 domains, and for the most part access times are also good. You can find discount codes for $5.95/mo, which is terrific pricing for a Cpanel host.
Portnoy
August 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Just OK, had better, had worse
amanda
August 24th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Average. A bit cumbersome to setup addon domains. But the support guys are pretty cool.
awardwinninghosts
September 15th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I’ve been with hostmonster for 18 months. For the first year they were fantastic. But, they seem to be losing their technical people, the servers are running slower and there are times when performance is poor. 15 second WordPress load times are not uncommon. I’ve also been getting a few cpu quota errors which causes all my sites to go down for a while. WordPress sites performs worse than Drupal ones.
Max@Viliat-Blog
October 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Agree with the last review, their services are getting worse and WP load time increasing. I’ll move my sites out of HostMonster very soon.
Josh Sommers
October 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Fast, real people on the phone, great support, every feature I want (yay shell access!)
Jack
October 31st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I have no complains about them. their support is fantastic. They ware able to answer some really tricky and advanced questions that I had.
Chaddy
December 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I love Hostmonster. They never let me down.
Mike Landis
January 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Although Hostmonster technical support is generally very good, their marketing claim of Python support is really vacuous. If you want to run a Python shell script in SSH, Python 2.3.4 is available, but HostMonster is not running server side components capable of serving python based web pages. HostMonster and sister company BlueHost have NOT configured Apache with mod_wsgi(preferred), mod_python, or mod_proxy, though mod_rewrite is present. They have effectively eliminated the possibility of running a site based on Django, Zope, Plone, Pylons, TurboGears, Grok, or web2py. When pestered to at least add mod_wsgi, they turned me down cold. They’re positioned to support PHP and they do that very effectively.
Gelay
March 17th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Not bad, but not good enough for serious developers.
Joseph Schinzel
June 13th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Have been with Hostmonster for more than 3 years now. I have more than 100 add-on domains within one account and have experience no real problems. Their support is 1st class. Response times are very quick. Would recommend them to everyone in my website development field.
Tanya
January 1st, 2010 at 11:31 pm
so far so good. the customer service is really help alot. I like layout of cpanel.
Jonathan
March 7th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Very good, no complaints here!
Drew Engelson
December 16th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
While Mike Landis’s comment above regarding mod_wsgi, mod_proxy, etc it correct… you can certainly run Django and other Python frameworks via FastCGI. I have been doing this for years now. The only issue is that the FastCGI process will not persist indefinitely and gets terminated every few minutes so the Python code will incur the startup cost every 5 mins or so, thus resulting in intermittent slow downs.
Foreclosure Overage
January 11th, 2011 at 2:58 am
This is the best webhost I have ever tried
Hans Temming
January 15th, 2011 at 8:46 am
I am not so pleased with Hostgator. The website I host there are far toooo slow. When I posted this to the helpdesk, I had to do many things on the server settings. Things I do not know much about. So not a good hosting for me.
wyswog
February 4th, 2011 at 10:14 am
its crap
Mike
February 13th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I have experience with hostmonster for few years and their support is quite good. Whenever I call them, I don’t need to wait for more than 2 or 3 minutes (good for me because I live in UK).
I recommend them for their services but they have increased their prices a few dollars a month since then.
Bruno
February 15th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Moi j’en suis content de mon provider
Johnny P.
February 19th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Very nice. A++++. Will do business with anytime.
Laptop Battery Canada
March 1st, 2011 at 11:26 am
good support!!!
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