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Hostmonster Review - High Quality Shared Hosting At Its Best?
By bdc2720 | April 3, 2008
As one of the older statesmen of high quality shared hosting Hostmonster have certainly had enough time to get their service as good as possible, and for the most part they have.
Is Hostmonster the best option for those looking for reliable shared hosting? Well that does slightly depend on what features you want. Hostmonster are definitely good at what they do but the best? Not in my opinion.
You may or may not know that Hostmonster are owned by the same company as another very popular hosting provider called Bluehost. Obviously both offer very similar services but of the two Hostmonster does offer slightly more than its partner in crime. That said I would actually opt for Hostgator over both, however check out the rest of the review and see if Hostmonster sound right for you.
HOSTMONSTER FEATURES
For the low price there is actually a lot included in the packages offered by Hostmonster. First of all they, like all the best host do, use cPanel with Fantastico included meaning you have the best control panel and an abbundance of simple to install scripts such as Wordpress.
You also get unlimited domains and unlimited sub domains for your use to go along with the free domain name they allow you to register. Ruby On Rails, Custom PHP.INI Files,Shell Access and 100 MySQL Databases are just some of the other features included. You also get the option of using PHP4 or PHP5.
There are certainly plenty of features here which should be enough to satisfy the needs of most webmasters.
HOSTMONSTER PERFORMANCE
As is the norm for hosting providers they offer 99.9% Uptime “Guarantee” ( I don’t know why they call it a guarantee as you cannot get a refund if they fail to achieve it!). Like all providers I’ve ever used or tested they fail to live up to this claim but that is nothing too shocking and the 98.8% Uptime I got is not bad by any means.
All their accounts are hosted on Quad Opteron Servers and are backed up with UPS and generators, all of which are monitored 24 hours a day seven days a week. The connection used to all servers is a OC-48 backbone connection
HOSTMONSTER VALUE
Hostmonster offer fairly good value for money, for $6.95 a month ( if paid for 2 years ) or $7.95 a month ( yearly ) you get 2,000 GB bandwidth and 200GB space to go along with all the features I mentioned earlier. This certainly makes for a very affordable high quality shared hosting service.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Not bad - but not the best either. One of the few letdowns I’ve seen is with Hostmonsters customer service. Their knowledge base is fine and they do deal with support tickets fairly quickly but their phone support, although free, could certainly do with some improving especially when other companies have shown it can be done.
HOSTMONSTER REVIEW CONCLUSION
Hostmonster certainly offer a reliable, affordable and high quality shared hosting service that I’m sure you wouldn’t be disappointed with if you decided to use them. Not the best in any area but a front runner in each if you can forgive the slightly shoddy phone service.
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