Why I Recommend HostMonster As A Hosting Company

Some people may not really consider their website hosting a tool, but I do, and I gladly choose HostMonster as my hosting company. If I was doing carpentry work and the motor and my circular saw went up in smoke at 9:00 in the morning, I’d be out of commission – not earning money until I got it going or went and replaced it. Either way, lost time is lost money.A website depends critically on the infrastructure that supports it, primarily the server it resides on. Reliability is key. How would you feel if you wake up one morning and find all of your websites are down? Gone, can’t find them anywhere. You make a panicked call to your hosting company and they inform you that the server your websites were hosted on is toast, and it will be several hours before your sites are running, IF the backups were properly saved.

Uh-Oh…

If you aren’t making money with your sites, this may be just a hiccup in your day, right? But if your living relies on your sites, a few hours downtime can mean a lot of lost money, hundreds, or even thousands. By the way, the above scenario happened to a friend of mine on a major hosting company that will remain unnamed. Guess what? The backups were bad. It took nearly two weeks before his sites were fixed completely, it was a total nightmare.Reliability is a huge reason I recommend HostMonster as a hosting company. Every hosting company has downtime and slowdowns from time to time, but in nearly 10 years of having my sites on HostMonster.com, I have never had a problem. Not one. Their support has always been friendly and fast, their prices are extremely competitive, and here’s my biggest reason…

It seems like the entire Internet Marketing industry is in love with one or two of the biggest hosting companies. Well, here’s a little secret… we Internet Marketing types tend to put a much greater load on servers than the typical website owner. Unless you have a dedicated server, you are at the mercy of all the Newbies, Spammers, and out of control Cron Jobs that are on your shared servers.

I can tell you that when your business justifies it, you’ll want a dedicated server. Until then however, don’t leave your sites with the companies that are packed full of resource hogs that crash servers… be a little independent and go with a company like HostMonster. They’re big enough to do it right, yet small enough to fly a little more under the radar.That’s how I like it, and that’s why I choose to recommend HostMonster.com for your hosting.