HostMonster Web Hosting Review

Friday, July 14, 2006

$ 7.95 /month

20 Gigabytes of Hosting Space

Host UNLIMITED Domains!!

5000 Pop/Imap Email Accounts

SSH Access (Secure Shell)

500 Gigs of Transfer

Front Page Extensions, Free Domain Forever. Free Site Builder, Best Support in the Industry

HostMonster Web Hosting

From the business owner to the individual who desires full functionality on a small budget, HostMonster provides your complete web hosting solution.

HostMonster has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Our internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost.

With HostMonster you can depend on:

• Highest customer service

• Quality equipment

• Maximum guaranteed uptime

• Highly functional tools for adminstration

• The leading feature set available

• Secure and reliable backups

• Solid and honest business practices

You can have multiple domains point to the same site or to a directory on your site. When you sign up, just choose the main domain you want to use, and later you can login to the control panel and add the other domains through the addon domains section of the control panel.

Also, before adding on the extra domains, make sure that you have pointed them to the appropriate name servers (ns1.hostmonster.com, and ns2.hostmonster.com) with your registrar, and allow them sufficient time to propogate across the internet.

Hostmonster Datacenter

Hostmonster uses the latest technology in hosting and uses high performance Quad AMD Opteron Servers for serving your web sites, UPS Power Back-up/ Back-up Generator for keeping your servers online in the event of a power cut, as well as mirrored storage backups, this allows your sites to be served quickly and reliably

Currently Hostmonster is offering astounding value for your $7.95 per month, this plan includes 20GB of storage space, 500GB of data transfer per month, this amount of storage and transfer puts the Hostmonster plan up there with the most valuable plans going in the sub $10 per month price bracket.

Reliability

Host Monster stands behind their service with a 99% uptime guarantee. All accounts come with an OC-48 backbone connection and customized Apache web server and high-performance Quad Opteron servers with UPS power backups, mirrored storage backups, and a backup generator. The datacenter where your hardware is stored is monitored by a professional security staff 24/7.

Control Panel

HostMonster users benefit from the time-tested and approved cPanel control panel. This icon-based interface is so simple to use, the learning curve is practically a straight line. The functions are intuitively categorized into: Account & Domain Management, Mail Management, Site Menu functions (for site publishing functions, ie. FTP), and Advanced Menu functions (like Backups, Cron jobs, databases, FrontPage, and SSL). Then there are the convenient cPanel Wizards (like PageWizard and Shopping Cart Gurus) and assistants (like Search Engine Submit).

Your personal cPanel notes, ToolTips, StartUp Tips and other settings are all stored on a separate MyCpanel page. From here you also read your incoming emails and have the option to publish your traffic stats on your website for all to see.

Customer Support

self-service center with a searchable knowledgebase and an email query ticket system.

Hosting Plans

Linux/Unix Hosting Plan

HostMonster : 20 GB disk space, 500 GB bandwidth @ $7.95/month (host unlimited domains)

Feature

Disk Storage 20 GB

Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS

Free Domain Name

Free Drag and Drop Site Builder

Support International Domain Names

POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support Unlimited

IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support Unlimited

Gigs of Site Transfer 500 GB/mo

Forwarding Email Accounts Unlimited

Email Autoresponder Unlimited

Add-on Domains Unlimited

Parked Domains Unlimited

Subdomains Unlimited

Additional FTP Accounts Unlimited

MySQL Databases 100

PostgreSQL Databases 100

IMAP/secure IMAP Email Support

3 Different Web Based Email Solutions

CGI-BIN

CGI Library

Server Side Includes

Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions

Account "Control Panel"

FTP Access

Shell Access (SSH)

Override .htaccess Support

Anonymous FTP

Webmail (Browser Based Email)

Log Files + Site Stats

Customizable Error Pages

Web File Manager

Custom Cronjobs

Spam Assassin Protection

Fantastico Script Support

World Class Technology

High Performance Quad Opteron Servers

Customized Apache Web Server

UPS Power Back-up/ Back-up Generator

24/7 Monitoring

Mirrored Storage Backups

OC-48 Backbone Connection

Bonus Feature

Bulletin Board (Message Forum)

Form-mail Script

PHP Nuke

Guestbook

Chat

Web Blogs/Wordpress/b2evolution

Mailing Lists

Image Galleries/Coppermine

Poll and Survey Software

Moodle

Mambo and Joomla

phpForm Generator

PHP Version 4 or 5 (Your Choice)

Perl 5

Python

Ruby/Ruby On Rails v1.1

Support For Custom PHP.INI Files

Javascript/DHTML

Flash/Shockwave

Help Center/Support Ticket

e-Commerce Feature

SSL Secure Server

OS Commerce Shopping Cart

Agora Shopping Cart

Free Generated Certificate

Password Protected Directories

Open PGP/GPG Encryption

Multimedia Feature

Supports Streaming Video

Supports Streaming Audio

Real Audio & Video Support

Flash Support

Macromedia Shockwave

MIDI File Support

Add own MIME Types

Site Promotion

Search Engine Submission

Customized Apache Web Server

UPS Power Back-up/Back-up Generator

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