Hostmonster Review

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The hosting packages available

HostMonster is known throughout the world for its reliable service and reasonably priced hosting plans. Owned by the company that also runs bluehost, HostMonster boasts of a world-class infrastructure powered by quad opteron network servers. One thing that makes HostMonster different from BlueHost is its plan price. The company offers a shared hosting plan that is normally priced at $9.99 or less based on the term you will choose.

With their promo, you can sign up for this plan for only $3.95. They also have a pro package that allows clients to make use of more resources because the server caters to 80% fewer accounts. This plan will cost you $24.99 a month no matter what term you choose. There are also numerous add-ons that you can choose to make your hosting plan fit your website’s needs. Here are the add-ons with their corresponding price:

Features & ease of use

Besides the requisite unlimited offerings of storage space, bandwidth, domains, and sub domains, HostMonster also offers the following:

• Use of a site builder with drag-and-drop features

Hostmonster’s site builder is known for its simplicity and functionality. No html knowledge? No problem! You can just choose a template for your website and build from there. If you want to add website features, the tool can also give you that with just a few clicks.

The builder also serves as your control panel where you can manage the contents of your website after it has been built. HostMonster supports the most popular cms like wordpress.

• Support for fantastico script

Making a website is made even easier with the use of scripts. One of the more popular platforms for scripting is fantastico. With this tool, you can easily install and upgrade your pre-made blogging packages, cms, ecommerce solutions, forum software packages, and others.

You can also manually install your chosen scripts as HostMonster supports these popular scripting languages:

 

For safe and reliable file transfers via the internet, you will need ftp accounts. HostMonster supports this protocol, enabling your webmasters to exchange large amounts of data that cannot fit in a regular email.

Reliability

With their latest and fastest servers coupled with backup generators and ups, clients can rely on HostMonster to provide uninterrupted service. Their system is constantly monitored in order to ensure that everything is working perfectly. Additionally, the company utilizes an oc-48 backbone as the server connection. All these contribute to the company’s good uptime feedback from independent monitoring service groups. Since 2008, hostmonster’s uptime has never gone below 99%.

Customer & technical support

Just like other major hosting companies, HostMonster also offers the same support options for accounts and technical issues. You can contact their support staff using their toll free phone lines any time of the day. You can also send a support ticket and can expect a quick response from their highly trained crew.

 

If you wish to find the solution to your issue on your own, you can also go to their website and search through their extensive knowledgebase entries.

The final verdict

If you want quality shared hosting services, HostMonster is a company worth considering. Not only do they provide quality, reliable, and affordable web hosting solutions, you can also purchase add-ons for your plan to make it more suitable for your website needs.