HostMonster is a leader in the web hosting industry and it's famous for providing high quality service to the customers at very reasonable price. You can get almost everything you will need to setup a web site from their one-size-fits-all web hosting with a price close to the cost of a lunch.
HostMonster has been in the industry for more than 10 years, and win a lot of awards from the top web hosting review sites for their great service. For me, I have used their service for 2 years, below are 6 reasons I think which make it exceptional within all the shared web hosting companies.
| General Features: Web Space: 1500 Gb Monthly Bandwidth: 15 Tb Multiple Domains: Unlimited POP3 Email: Unlimited Subdomains: Unlimited FTP Accounts: Unlimited MySQL Databases: 100 |
Additional Features: Free Domain: Yes, Forever! Ecommerce Ready: Yes Website Builder: Yes Money Back: 30 days Support: 24/7 toll fre |
Hostmonster Hosting Includes
Multiple Domain Hosting (Host Unlimited Domains in 1 Account), cPanel (Demo available), Support International Domain Names, 2 Different Web Based Email Solutions, Fantastico Script Support, Bulletin Board (Message Forum), PHP Nuke, Bloggers (Web Blogs), Image Galleries, Web Auctions, Help Center/Support Ticket, SSL Secure Server, OS Commerce Shopping Cart, MySQL Databases, PostgreSQL Databases, CGI-BIN, CGI Library, PHP Version 4 or 5 (Your Choice), Perl 5 Support, Ruby/Ruby On Rails v1.1, Server Side Includes, Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions, Shell Access (SSH), Log Files + Site Stats, Supports Streaming Video and Audio, Search Engine Submission, Search Engine Position Report, Password Protected Directories, Spam Assassin Protection. Live Demo available! See how Hostmonster's cPanel works.
The Features
Most hosts are not generous enough when it comes to bandwidth, space or domains. Hostmonster, on the other hand feature unlimited supply to all three. Unfortunately, they do make it clear that you cannot host big sites on the server in exchange for the space. So, although they say it's unlimited, in actuality, you only have unlimited space and bandwidth if you don't use too many CPU processes.
Aside from that, this host gives plenty of other features to keep webmasters busy. To name a few, Hostmonster offers Cpanel with Fantastico, Shell Access(SSH), 100 MySQL Databases, unlimited sub domains, Ruby on Rails (Ruby on Wheels), Custom PHP.INI Files and many more. All of these can be accessed through an easy-to-use control panel that even noobies can use.
Once you sign up, they give you a free domain name and also a free domain transfer if the need arises. Your site can also be up and running straightaway. They give free site promotion, although they don't state for how long. They also give away free Google and Yahoo credits, some $75 worth.
Reliability
An unreliable host can be a massive hindrance. When looking for a web host, one of the things you need to look for is reliability - this is also known as “uptime”. Back when I first started web design in 1997, uptime was a big problem. Technology was still trying to catch up with the .com boom and a lot of my sites frequently appeared “offline” to visitors. Thankfully, this is no longer a problem as hosts now use state of the art data-centres to house their servers. These servers are monitored 24/7 by fully qualified technicians that ensure your site stays online 99.9% of the time (the industry standard).
You will notice that I didn’t say 100% of the time. Even today, no host can claim to have your site online 100% of the time - they can’t account for fires, power cuts, natural disasters and such like. However, the hosts can protect you from hackers, DOS attacks and other forms of abuse that may result in downtime for your website. Hostmonster does this as well as anyone; server hardening has been performed and technicians are always on hand to cope with any problems quickly and efficiently. At the time of writing, my site has been online since early last year without any major outages. I have never noticed the site being down but obviously I don’t sit there hitting my F5 key 24 hours a day!
For the excellent uptime I have experienced whilst using Hostmonster I am going to give it 5/5. This is the highest score I can give and, in my opinion, it is fully justified. My site has been online for the best part of 18 months and I have suffered no downtime and no business has been lost.
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