Reader HostMonster Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
HostMonster Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
HostMonster was founded late 2003 in Provo, UT USA and has grown into one of the largest shared hosting platforms in the world. Currently HostMonster provides services for over 650,000 domains. Their target audience is small and home office business customers as well as web enthusiasts with a very large customer base that uses open source systems such as WordPress, phpBB forums, Magento shopping cart and RoundCube web mail.
Features
HostMonster offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, a FREE domain and FREE setup. They also include a FREE site builder, over 50 pre-installed scripts and some FREE Ad credits to help with web site marketing.
The control panel used by HostMonster is cPanel with a twist. They have enhanced the cPanel with instant search and user customisation via drag-and-drop design to allow user customisation. How useful this is in the long term I’m not sure, I find none transferable customisation’s tend to tie you into one system.
HostMonster has many online video tutorials, a getting started wizard, a very good Knowledge base and a friendly user forum for sharing problems and solutions with other users.
Reliability is excellent with HostMonster, they use the same support team as BlueHost their sister company (however the two are run as different organizations), with uptime in excess of 99.8%. They have very good customer support and have a reputation for answering telephone calls within a couple of minutes. Their email and open-ticket support is also excellent.
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Conclusion
HostMonster are definitely a host worth considering with a great track record for support and features.
To be fair all the web hosting services reviewed here are of comparable quality and all give a quality service so you won’t go wrong by choosing any of them. But, each service has qualities which may or may not be what you require so review each web hosting service and make your choice based on your requirements.
- There are web hosting services which are far beyond my capabilities and understanding so I have not even attempted to review such services.
- I required a web site that could be up and running in less then a day with very little prior knowledge. I needed something where the web hosting experts provided most of the background work so I could concentrate on my web site.
- Also, the offers made by each ISP change weekly, so please check each ISP prior to making a commitment.
Although each ISP has many offers which vary over time I have tried to be specific to the requirements above and ignored items such as FREE Photo Albums etc. as these can be added to most sites by downloading and installing the appropriate scripts.
If you have any comment, corrections or items you think should be added to the listings please do not hesitate to let me know.