I have a shared host with them for a few months which the disk usage for home/backup is usually around 85-95%. Right now I am experiencing very slow download speed. What about yours?
Server Load 2.92 (8 cpus)
Memory Used 42.6 %
Swap Used 0.01 %
Disk /dev/sdc1 (/home) 91 %
Disk /dev/sdd1 (/backup) 90 %
Disk /dev/sde1 (/backup/cpbackup/weekly) 43 %
Disk /dev/ram0 (/ramdisk) 24 %
Disk /dev/sdb1 (/) 22 %
i frequently read these forums for offers/to stay up to date with web hosting in general.
I never felt the need to register until now.
I have experienced what i believe to be sub-standard service from my paid hosting.
Here's what happened:
I got up, as usual to check my emails and i was hit with the following email
Your web hosting account for xxxxxxxx has been deactivated (reason: terms of service violation).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as
soon as possible.
Thank you,
HostMonster.Com Support
xxxxxx (couldn't have url's in this post)
For support go to xxxxxx
Toll-Free: (866) 573-4678
I checked my domain, it returned nothing.
I don't believe that i have committed any terms of service violation and i am quite peeved off with the results.
My account was just suddenly deactivated with no warning, my domain (also registered via them) no longer works (i have no way of telling current visitors whats happened, the domain just wont work) and i have 15 days to contact them (via email) as phone is not an option as i live out of the US.
Not to mention after all that, i wouldn't review host-monster very greatly at all for speed, at first it was great but it just kept degrading from there until it was just extremely poor.
One thing they did do right was refund me (but i bet it doesn't include the domain) so ill be taking that money and my business else ware.
Hostmonster VS Bluehost
Whats different about the two. are they the same company. it looks like it. if so which would you chose?
HostMonster or Hostgator whichone is better?
And they are offering unlimited domains...what does this mean actually?
In general I have been happy with hostmonster. Mostly because their support staff is polite and are willing to help. However, I do question the server reliability at times.
Lately when a customer registers at my forum or gallery, the customer does not get the activation email 4 or 5 hours later. Today, I tested it and sure enough, the activation email took 4 or 5 hours before it came.
I talked to tech support and they acknowledged they had over 250,000 emails backed up. That there are too many connections with hotmail accounts and that was causing a problem as well.
A customer having to wait 4 or 5 hours before they receive an activation email seems a bit long.
I'm not sure if hostmonster is going to do anything to prevent this from happening in the future, but for now they seem to be satisfied with the emails backing up on the server and the time it takes for them to be sent. They indicated this does not happen often, but I really don't know since I don't send myself emails on a daily basis.
I would rate email as one of the most important functions there is for a webmaster. Otherwise, hostmonster staff has been responsive and my hope is this will not be a constant problem.
If there are any other hostmonster webmasters out there, I would appreciate your feedback. You may have to send yourself a registration or a email to test it.
Hostmonster and Bluehost Spammer
What is the relationship between Hostmonster and Bluehost?
One spammer has a domain with an NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM but their IP belongs to Bluehost.
I noticed that HostGator, HostMonster, and BlueHost are very popular, but I would really like to know which is better overall. I plan on running vBulletin, and when it gets more traffic I will upgrade to a VPS.
Based on your experiences, which one should I go with?
I'm come here to complain the hosting company hostmonster which is the very bad hosing provide company. Until now,
I have contact with them for 36 hours, and my website is still down.
the first 12 hours, the server is down. after that, they are installing sever packages on it. after that, they did
not do any work on it. they not recover my data, my website's content is gone!
I contact them many times, some time they reply me, and tell me server will be back up momentarily.
I'm very tired on this problem. I'm charge an comerece site, now some customers is going to refund from me, they
thought me as a cheater.
If you see my post, I suggest you to choose the other web hosting. Stay away from hostmonster, do not harm
yourself. Bluthost.com is also the same hosting company. so, please be clever.
here is our email I contact with Hostmonster:
Take care, this mail is replied from bluehost.
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 9:53 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
Currently the admin of your server is swapping new drives in to better improve system performance. Your site will
be back up momentarily.
Thank You,
Jonathan L. S.
Support Level 1
BlueHost.com
888.401.4678
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
We apologize for the trouble you've been having. Our administrators are working as fast as they can to get the
server back up on line.
Again I apologize for the wait.
Thank You,
EricJ
L1 Support
Hostmonster.com
866-573-4678
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
hide details 2:10 PM (12 hours ago)
Dear Customer,
There is no eta on the server at this time but please bear with us as we get it back on line.
Thanks for contacting us.
We apologize for the trouble you've been having,
Thanks
JChristensen
Level 1 Support Engineer
Hostmonster.com
(866) 573-HOST
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we have encountered some unexpected problems with the server. We currently
have no ETA, but I would expect that it won't be for maybe another 12 hours. Our SysAdmins have been working on
the server round the clock to get it back up as soon as possible. When it is back up, your files should be back as
I'm down to only 2 web hosting plan that I want to join and I wonder if anyone is using any one of them.
It seems siteground has a better plan(more space, traffic bandwidth, other feature) but hostmonster allow ssh access and I think that maybe good for installing our own software.
I also interested to see if anyone uses there free shopping cart software like osCommerce, zencart and cubecart.
Anyone has any trouble with them in PHP5 environment?
I'm gonna start an online affiliate biz and am looking for a good reliable and cheap hosting service. I came up with these. Now I'm finding it difficult to decide which one to go with.
And if you know of a better and cheaper service,
Wanted to share a bit (read vent a bit if you're cynical ).
Just got the following e-mail from hostmonster.
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Dear Dale:
Your web hosting account for ibycus.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Support
For support go to
Toll-Free: (866) 573-4678
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Apparently, there are two files on my website that are being hit quite a bit, and causing the server to slow down. (I admit, its a busy site, and the files are very big).
The files aren't new there, and neither is the traffic, but the plug was pulled with no warning what so ever, and no offer of remediation on their part beyond refunding the remaining portion of my contract (I would hope so too!).
I can understand that they may not be able to continue to host my site due to the volume of traffic it generates, but they really could have handled this much better.
I just want to move from hostmonster to dedicated server
the problem is the database(vbulletin) size about 1 GB
when I try make backup for it through ssh it arraive to 723 MB then stop becuase it have highload on hostmonster system they not allowed more than 20% cpu
I take to them they tell me can’t do any thing I please them make backup but they say we can’t do any thing for you and I’m sure they can log by root and do it with ssh on less than 1 minute
how can I make backup or if there r way to move the database to the new server
2 day ago and I can’t move to the new server
HostMonster just updated its control panel (CPanel) to the latest version.
Also provides some ad coupons, such as: Google, Yahoo, MS adCenter, etc.
Now create a new website is more flexible. You can change the directory.
But it still has limitation. After you create, you can't change it.
I have a VPS from KnownHost for about a year for developing purposes. Great place to go for VPS's, by the way.
Anyway I just installed a game server on it and now the loads are about 0.5 when I do a "top" command.
Should I be worried? The server isn't really used for anything right now, that is why I am using it as a L4D server. Max 8 people on it.
I was wondering about a specific VPS package I was considering. I have around 80~90 sites (and therefore accounts) that I need a nice place to call home, but I am wondering if maybe I would be asking too much of this VPS package:
40GB Disk Space
1000GB Transfer
P4 3.2GHz
800MHz Front Side Bus
1GB Guaranteed RAM | 2GB Burst RAM
CentOS 4
50% of CPU Guaranteed | Burst to...I don't remember.
All of the sites I would be hosting easily take up less than 100MB of space each. The most any of them use is 2-5GB of transfer. I know these levels are no where near my allotted resources, but do you think that serving 80-90 accounts like this is too much server load? There will only be 2 VPS' on each server, guaranteed.
Anyone with experience with a VPS and a decent set of accounts/domains, please let me know what you think.
I have two vps's n ifferent hardware, after my hoster performed an update to node I am now seeing high loads on both vps's
When I reboot the problem goes for a while
My servers host very little websites and little activity and normally run fine
I have notice a process "unhide" running, what is this and where should I start looking for this issue
[root@vps ~]# top
top - 18:47:59 up 1 day, 6:51, 1 user, load average: 1.96, 1.95, 1.92
Tasks: 62 total, 2 running, 60 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 2.8% sy, 1.1% ni, 96.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1048576k total, 143908k used, 904668k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
Unknown command - try 'h' for help
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23980 root 26 10 1872 876 316 S 2.0 0.1 4:40.86 unhide
1 root 15 0 1644 568 484 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.76 init
1982 root 17 0 6412 1828 1124 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 crond
1985 root 18 0 2120 900 784 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 run-parts
3228 root 18 0 3252 1028 896 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 01-rkhunter
3229 root 18 0 1888 548 460 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 awk
3665 apache 15 0 39700 18m 6036 S 0.0 1.8 0:05.14 httpd
5771 apache 15 0 39540 16m 4516 S 0.0 1.6 0:01.14 httpd
7837 root 26 10 11320 9272 976 S 0.0 0.9 0:07.64 rkhunter
9958 apache 15 0 39608 18m 6024 S 0.0 1.8 0:02.84 httpd
11611 root 15 0 8584 2532 1964 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 sshd
11831 root 16 0 6144 476 324 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 vzctl
11836 root 16 0 2184 1264 1048 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 bash
13789 root 16 0 1548 528 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.38 syslogd
13794 root 18 0 1484 368 308 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
14022 apache 15 0 39432 15m 3868 S 0.0 1.6 0:00.72 httpd
17612 root 18 0 4056 1052 756 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
I have a Quad Core Xeon server with 2 GB RAM. The server has some high traffic websites & at peak hours (4-5 hrs a day) the server load remains 10.0 to 50.0.
The sites on the server load very slow at these times. Here's the top result during heavy load
[url]
I normally don't like too bother others with my problems but this time It seems I have no choice since I spent the whole afternoon trying to find out what the problem was and couldn't solve it "entirely".
Here's some hardware info:
Processor Information Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3050 @ 2.13GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2133.418 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 2048 KB
Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3050 @ 2.13GHz
Processor #2 speed: 2133.418 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 2048 KB
Memory Information Memory: 1031324k/1048320k available (2182k kernel code, 16308k reserved, 914k data, 240k init, 130816k highmem)
System Information Linux **************** 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5smp #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 19:40:16 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Running Fedora Core 5 and working for over half year with almost no major problems, but today something totally weird just happened...
After waking up I logged to the server and realized how slow it was, I went to see more about that and for my surprise the loading was around 8 so I went to the mail queue to see if there were a few thousand mails, there were 16 mails... So I went to the see CPU % processes at WHM and I was stunted to see around 30 processes allegedly using over 11500% of the CPU or more!
My first thought was that cPanel smoked something before releasing a last update and I didn't realized it immediately so I downgraded from Release to Stable.
Nothing happened and I lost my time with this overheated overloaded and over-everything and I didn't changed any configuration.
I changed many old configs that... I don't know, might crashed with something that might changed... I was trying and looking for anything.
The load was getting up instead of down, it went up to around 60.
The final conclusion is that whenever I turn the MySQL on I got overwhelming loads otherwise the other services "only" give me around 1.5 of load but still very unstable.
I'm getting a little tired so my explanation may be a little confusing, sorry about that.
Anybody knows what this is? Did this ever happened to you? Extremely high loads without an obvious reason? If anyone could help me I would be thankful for that, I'm getting kind of desperate.
I have a server running SUSE. dual quad core chips, 16 gigs of RAM.
It's a webserver only running Apache.
We have been having a problem the past few days where page loads take forever yet CPU load and RAM load are very, very low.
I've noticed when it happens when viewing HTOP that TASKS jump from about 350 average to 1000 average. Pages won't start loading until this number drops.
I see no errors in error_log or messages however restarting Apache seems to fix the issue?
I've tried messing around with KEEPALIVE settings with no help.
Any clues on where to start? Pretty lost on this one becuase I see no errors and the load both CPU and RAM are low.
We are having a problem with our Linux dedicated server. At time we are getting high server loads witch is causing the server to go down and reboot. This problem has been going on for over a month now and still liquid web can not tell me what is the cause of the high loads. We have upgraded our RAM to 2 GB. This look to fix the problem for the first week but now we are back to having high loads and downtime.
I'm not a IT person so do not know how to find the problem. Can anyone tell me what I can do the locate the problem. I do know how to access and do some things in the root but do not know enough to find and fix this issue.
Recently, we've been getting a lot of high loads (every 30 mins or so..) This is what shows in the warning email that we receive:
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12.0 04:31:35 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/swh.sellwebhost.com.pid --skip-external-locking
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We are using whm.. Any idea what might be causing this?
I had two websites on hostmonster for over a year and last weekend they migrated my site without a proper back up and completed DELETED both of my entire websites along with 900 other websites. If you have had problems with hostmonster in the last three years, please get in contact with me to join a class action law suit against them. They are claiming zero responsibility for the horrific act. Not only do they expect us to rebuild our websites at our expense they are expecting us to be o.k. with the loss of revenue this has also created. Hostmonster generates millions of dollars each month in revenue. Corporate america - enough of your passing the buck. It's time for us to stick together and make they pay for their mistakes. Please contact me to join the class action lawsuit.
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We have checked your server. Please see the load average and process list given below:
The value 4.42 was the CPU load average at the time. A normal load should be below 1.00. I could see that Apache service is causing high load in your server.
So you can tweak Apache in order to reduce the CPU load. Please check and let us know if you need any further assistance.
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[root@chi07 ~]# vzctl exec 18403 w
03:16:20 up 2 min, 0 users, load average: 4.42, 1.42, 0.50
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
I was just looking at awstats for a domain that is not in use and only got a max of 10 visits a month till October 08.
Now since November 2008 I have been getting a lot of unique visitors from Italy but there is nothing on the domain, no folders or files.
Here is what AWStats say:
Nov 08: 710
Dec 08: 1593
Jan 09: 4243 (so far)
These are unique visitors 99% coming from Italy
What do you think going on ?
The domain in question is testingurl.com
We have a few websites which get 90% Asian traffic. Looking to optimise the user experience in terms of loading time..
Any specific server providers good for asian traffic? How do I find the latency time for a server provider before I go ahead with buying the server?
My server's experiencing very slow page loads.
I ran top and got this (screenshot attached)
Could we say that it is a bit high for one http process to use that much cpu/ram?