Hostmonster Good?

Hostmonster is also as low as $3.95/Month when you sign up for 24 months. They also offer an anytime prorated moneyback guarantee (i think you can get it all back if you cancel within 30 days).

I have accounts with both hostmonster & justhost. I've been with hostmonster a lot longer, but justhost seems like a pretty decent host so far.

Recently, I ran some performance testing on hostmonster, justhost, & dreamhost, and although I haven't yet published the results, in a nutshell hostmonster is the best of the three as far as performance is concerned.

I could care less about which offers the most google adwords credits - that's not what I pay for hosting for. But if that's important, hostmonster offers $50 of adwords credits & some yahoo credits too, plus a sitebuilder, the one click installs, and all the other bells & whistles that hosts are offering these days.

As far as database speed, network speed, php execution times and so forth, hostmonster comes out ahead. (oh and by the way, Dreamhost's database speed, as many know, is kind of bad).

Hostmonster is a great host. Justhost, I haven't been with them long enough to really say anything about them, but they seem ok in the tests I've done. For instance, justhost seems to have faster response times for serving the static pages that I used for testing on all three hosts.

Also, in a lot of the reviews of justhost that I've read, everyone complained about justhost's uptime. So first thing I did upon signing up for justhost was I ran the 'uptime' command which showed that the server had been up for 84 days.

So the next thing I did was logged into my dreamhost & hostmonster accounts to see how long those servers were up. Hostmonster was 1 day & Dreamhost was 23 days. Of course either of these servers could have been running nonstop for a whole year previous to reboot.

But to the original poster, I'd certainly recommend hostmonster. They have good support that have good English speaking skills & the guy that runs the company seems like a class act.

Also hostmonster doesn't skimp on their server hardware. The box that I'm on has two Xeon E5335's for a total of 8 processor cores running at 2 Ghz each. It has 16 GB/ ram.

My dreamhost & justhost accounts are on boxes with 16 Gb & 4 Gb ram respectively. Both have a single Xeon quad core processor. Still justhost blows dreamhost away especially in database related tasks. I hear Dreamhost has some wonky networked database setup that adds mega latency too.

Anyhow, I've been with Hostmonster maybe 3 or 4 years and everything's been peachy. They have downtime like any other shared host. But you might want to check out this Justhost outfit. Somebody posted a justhost coupon code on here that would give you a year of hosting for free. Ok, now I remember, the coupon code is "TEMPLATEMONSTER".

Don't know about any coupon codes for hostmonster, but it's pretty affordable and quality for shared hosting.

Could you explain what makes 1and1.com the best?

You should use Hostgator because you don't have to pay in advance.

I have 3 domains at Hostmonster. They have helped me every time I have called them. Even at 4:30 A.M. I also have about 25 sub-domaine there too. I have tried a few others but I have kept my Hostmonster now for 3 years.