Hostmonster Review

Hostmonster was founded in 1996 and has grown to approximately 80,000 customers today. They guarantee 99.9% uptime and have received many awards.

Hosting features at Hostmonster

If you own more than one site Hostmonster could be your new home as they allow to host unlimited domains. Hostmonster is an affordable web host that offers unlimited POP, SMTP, and FTP services. Moreover Hostmonster supports the industry leading programming languages like PHP, Perl, CGI, SSI, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and many more. In addition Hostmonster provides support for the uploading of your websites via software editors such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Front Page. To help you monitor your site activity the AWStats web statistics package comes pre-installed which gives you a detailed overview of what is happening on your site. In case you want to build elaborate sites without doing it all from scratch you can tap into the Fantastico script library and get scripts ranging from chats, forums, e-commerce, to mailing list programs.

Hostmonster customer service

The customer service at Hostmonster has won many awards over the years. It is available 24x7 via phone and email. In addition to that they have a comprehensive help center with many tutorials on different CPanel topics. In the help center you will also find the ticket system for support queries.

Hostmonster technical information

The datacenter is located in Utah and has all the latest technology to ensure optimum running conditions for your servers. Power is guaranteed by UPS power backup and diesel generators. The site is monitored 24*7 by administration staff. Hostmonster connects to the backbone with an OC-48 connection.

Hosting plans

Hostmonster Linux and Unix plans:
One Plan: 300 GB storage and 3000 GB transfer, $5.95/month