Web host review - Host Monster
Host Monster has been around for a long time. They have been providing hosting solutions to many businesses and personal websites since 1996.
Their hosting packages are at very affordable prices. The features they offer are a huge amount of disk space, high monthly transfer allowance and unlimited add-on domains.
I like their free domain name for life + free domain privacy registration. Privacy registration costs about $9. Other popular features are unlimited sub-domains, unlimited pop e-mail accounts, unlimited e-mail forwarding, 100 MySQL databases and much more.
Price? 5.95/Mo. Great deal! Host Monster is one of the best web hosting services IMO.
The admin panel they use is Cpanel XP. All the icons look like Windows XP. The admin front has bunch of icons you can select. It looks pretty easy to use. Another thing I like is that they have wordpress option. Some web hosts don't have this feature, so those who like to blog on wordpress have to download. It is kind of strange that such a popular blog program is not available in many web hosts.
Let's focus on another feature. Gigs of Site Transfer - 2,000 GB/mo. Any webmaster wants big bandwidth. Usually web space is enough for any web host out there today. But when it comes to the bandwidth, you may not find web hosts with generous bandwidth capacity. Average is somewhere 50 GB to 80GB. So, Host Monster is definitely one of the bests to offer big badnwidth capacity.
Here is the list of their hosting package:
Disk Storage 200 GB
Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
Free Domain Name
Free Drag and Drop Site Builder
Support International Domain Names
POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support Unlimited
IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support Unlimited
Gigs of Site Transfer 2,000 GB/mo
Forwarding Email Accounts Unlimited
Email Autoresponder Unlimited
Add-on Domains Unlimited
Parked Domains Unlimited
Subdomains Unlimited
Additional FTP Accounts Unlimited
MySQL Databases 100
PostgreSQL Databases 100
Their hosting packages are at very affordable prices. The features they offer are a huge amount of disk space, high monthly transfer allowance and unlimited add-on domains.
I like their free domain name for life + free domain privacy registration. Privacy registration costs about $9. Other popular features are unlimited sub-domains, unlimited pop e-mail accounts, unlimited e-mail forwarding, 100 MySQL databases and much more.
Price? 5.95/Mo. Great deal! Host Monster is one of the best web hosting services IMO.
The admin panel they use is Cpanel XP. All the icons look like Windows XP. The admin front has bunch of icons you can select. It looks pretty easy to use. Another thing I like is that they have wordpress option. Some web hosts don't have this feature, so those who like to blog on wordpress have to download. It is kind of strange that such a popular blog program is not available in many web hosts.
Let's focus on another feature. Gigs of Site Transfer - 2,000 GB/mo. Any webmaster wants big bandwidth. Usually web space is enough for any web host out there today. But when it comes to the bandwidth, you may not find web hosts with generous bandwidth capacity. Average is somewhere 50 GB to 80GB. So, Host Monster is definitely one of the bests to offer big badnwidth capacity.
Here is the list of their hosting package:
Disk Storage 200 GB
Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
Free Domain Name
Free Drag and Drop Site Builder
Support International Domain Names
POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support Unlimited
IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support Unlimited
Gigs of Site Transfer 2,000 GB/mo
Forwarding Email Accounts Unlimited
Email Autoresponder Unlimited
Add-on Domains Unlimited
Parked Domains Unlimited
Subdomains Unlimited
Additional FTP Accounts Unlimited
MySQL Databases 100
PostgreSQL Databases 100
Web hosts today
I am going to review various web hosts based on some sets of criteria because selecting a web host is a very important thing for any webmaster. Thus reviewing should be based on objective evaluations.
When I look for a new web host, the support and reliability is the first thing I look for. Then the cost, I think. Cheap web hosts are popular, but you don't want to have any trouble, ending up in moving to another host. That is a pain and time consuming. And you will lose money in the end.
30 day money back guarantee thing is offered by many web hosts. This is a good sign. You can rely on them. After all, the trickiest part is the cost. Sometimes they offer a great deal, but it's only for the first month! Monthly cost is cheap, but you need to pay for 2 years up front.
Due to the severe competition among web hosting companies, the services they offer these days are pretty much the same. The differences are usually the bandwidth, sub-domain or domain names you can host, and the amount of data base you can use. So, it all comes down to "get the same stuff at the best price".
When I look for a new web host, the support and reliability is the first thing I look for. Then the cost, I think. Cheap web hosts are popular, but you don't want to have any trouble, ending up in moving to another host. That is a pain and time consuming. And you will lose money in the end.
30 day money back guarantee thing is offered by many web hosts. This is a good sign. You can rely on them. After all, the trickiest part is the cost. Sometimes they offer a great deal, but it's only for the first month! Monthly cost is cheap, but you need to pay for 2 years up front.
Due to the severe competition among web hosting companies, the services they offer these days are pretty much the same. The differences are usually the bandwidth, sub-domain or domain names you can host, and the amount of data base you can use. So, it all comes down to "get the same stuff at the best price".
Free or Paid?
Many people usually start using free stuff online, whatever that is, before they use paid services. Probably Yahoo!'s free hosting, geocities is still the most popular one as a free web hosting service.
But for business people to do business via their websites, they would find out free hostings are simply not enough to meet their needs. In this blog, I would focus on paid web hostings more than free ones though I would certainly review some cool free web hostings out there.
Hundreds of web hostings exist online today, and it is sometimes overwhelming to find out who gives a better service. Remember, it is not all about money you need to invest. Ultimately, you would like to have a quality service from your web hosting company, whether free or paid.
But for business people to do business via their websites, they would find out free hostings are simply not enough to meet their needs. In this blog, I would focus on paid web hostings more than free ones though I would certainly review some cool free web hostings out there.
Hundreds of web hostings exist online today, and it is sometimes overwhelming to find out who gives a better service. Remember, it is not all about money you need to invest. Ultimately, you would like to have a quality service from your web hosting company, whether free or paid.
