Review of Hostmonster Uptime and Access Time
These days is very rare that a host goes down for a lot of time without an emergency or a disaster, but you should be very concerned about uptime when paying a lot of money on advertising, because a cheap host could be very expensive if your visitors couldn’t see your website after paying Google a lot of money per click.
Uptime Figures
Many clain 99.9% of uptime, but that is very difficult to achieve because this means that you will get .1% of downtime each month, which means that less that 44 minutes per month your website will not be reacheable, but the reality is slightly more downtime for any given host and Hostmonster is not the exception. In fact, we are seeing a figure published by a respected source that shows the uptime for the month of July 2,009 and was 99.78%, which totals 22 minutes in a month. Unless you are investing a lot of money on advertising (if that is the case, you should NOT be looking for a shared hosting, but a dedicated server) that is a very good number for the price of this host.
User Reports and Experiences
You could read all the good testimonials and all the complaints people has about the service and still you will not find the truth about any host because different groups of people experience different servers, different customer service personal and different problems. It is better to look at averages to know what you probably could expect.
The average user host small websites with little traffic and will have no complaints about the service. If you want to host a high traffic site with lots of scripts and many complicated programs, this hosting probably is not for you, but if you are hosting a site that doesn’t demand too much from the server (like most sites) then, it is a very good option.
