HostMonster
HostMonster is one of the best providers of website hosting solutions in the world. The company was founded by Matt Heaton, the founder of another legendary company, BlueHost. Both companies have shown remarkable ability to provide customers with exactly what they need. HostMonster provides even lower rates than BlueHost and offers the same great quality of service. The company has won the “Best Web Hosting Award” twice and is considered as a very prestigious and outstanding service provider.
The company was founded in 1996 and has been providing great quality services ever since. Over the years, HostMonster has gained the trust of many of its customers who are now afraid to try out any other service provider.
Price & Features
The company offers only one concise and well-designed webhosting package. The package is usually offered at $6.95 but is being offered at $5.95 at the moment in a special promotion offer. Key features include unlimited web space for hosting website content, unlimited data transfer bandwidth and support to host unlimited domains. Add-on, parked and subdomains are also unlimited.
However, one downside to this hosting package is the limitation of number of MySQL databases. Users can only create up to 100 MySQL databases which is a slight turn down since the company provides hosting unlimited domains on one account.
One innovative feature of HostMonster is the drag and drop website builder which can be used to create high quality websites; even a beginner can build a website through this. The users only have to select one template from thousands of professionally designed templates, drag and drop objects on the template from the rich featured website editor and Walla! The website is ready.
The company provides support for a number of development platforms and content management systems such as Joomla!, WordPress, Durpal, PHP 5, Perl 5, Python, Ruby and many more. The package also includes some ecommerce tools which can be used to create websites with a shopping cart system or online order system. The package provides rich content support for various multimedia file types including Flash content. On top of all that, the company provides $50 worth of Google Ad credits so customers can start earning from their website as quickly as possible.
Support & UP Time
Support and Uptime are the main areas where HostMosnter truly shines. The company guarantees 99.9% uptime and its ever growing number of hosted domains suggests that customers are satisfied with the service provided by the company. The company has always put customer needs as their first priority and takes every possible step to make sure it stays that way. 24 hour help line and live chat facility is provided to all clients and other users who wish to seek information about the company. Technical support staff is highly qualified and adequate to deal with any kind of technical issue that customers might encounter.
Conclusion
The company is one of the best website hosts in the world and is clearly very popular among web developers. The limited number of MySQL databases might be a turndown for some customers, but most would simply ignore it and prefer good quality of service over this minor issue.
