HostMonster Review
Amongst the shared web hosting service providers, Hostmonster is the best in its segment. Even though it is not as popular as some of the hosts like godaddy or Hostgator, its reviews have been rated pretty high by most users. And given the pricing and the features that are on offer, it deserves so.
It is the sister company of the web hosting giant BlueHost, which also runs fasthost. Hostmonter is practically similar to Bluehost with pricing and packages of the same variety.
Server Information:
The server uptime for Hostmonster has been found to be around 99, 8, which is pretty good compared to market standards, and highly affirmative for a shared hosting domain. It has not been found to have any considerable downtime. The parent company owns and operates its own datacenter which is use for the hosting of Hostmonster and the exclusive Quad Opteron servers have been incorporated recently. Most of the servers are on 24/7 monitoring as well, which are backed by6 the OC-48 backbone connections, another reason for fast connections and its relatively high uptime.
Features and Pricing:
The cPanel, which is the control panel offered in its solutions, is best in class and comes along with a Fantastico script installer. Among the wide variety of features that are on offer and which make it so attractive are , unlimited domains with free domain names, unlimited number of subdomains , Custom PHP.INI files , SSH Access , Ruby on Rails support , over 100 MySQL databases . For users a large number of sites, the feature of unlimited domains can be very helpful. The pricing is very reasonable and the package comes only for $6.95 a month similar to the package of BlueHost. Given the kind of bandwidth and spacing that comes along, the user could not have asked for more. A setup fee is usually charged, for small term contracts.
Speed:
Download speeds for shared servers are usually lower and is impacted by a number of reasons like the traffic on server, the location of both the host and the user, the speed of the datacenter. After taking speed tests on servers of Hostmonster, there speeds have been found to be very good.
The simple scripting, affordable pricing, varied features and a trusted company, make Hostmonster one of the most reliable offerings in the market.