Host Monster Review
Established in 1996, Host Monster provides Web hosting to thousands of businesses and individuals worldwide. The company prides itself on high-powered service at a fraction of the cost. Host Monster wants its customers to expect the highest customer service, quality equipment, the maximum guaranteed uptime, highly functional tools for administration, availability of the leading future set, secure and reliable backups, and solid and honest business practices.
Reliability: Host Monster uses quad processor perfoance servers run on a OC-48 backbone connection. It uses a customized Apache Web server. Its connectivity is constant with its servers running 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the company provides constant monitoring. UPS power back-up systems, as well as a back-up generator, protect the servers.
Support: Host Monster provides customers with a Online Help Center on its Web site. The center includes articles written by technical experts that answer questions ranging from, "Now that I've signed up, what do I do now?" to "What is the path to PERL?" If a customer still needs help after browsing the knowledge base, he or she can open a ticket, entering information in and receiving the answer to her question via e-mail, or he or she can call one of several senior support lines, many of which are in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Price: $6.95/month with no contract.
Web Hosting Specifications:
- Unlimited disk storage
- Host unlimited domains
- Free domain name, including support for international domain names
- Drag and drop Web site builder
- Unlimited POP3/POP3 Secure e-mail Support
- Unlimited IMAP/Secure IMAP e-mail Support
- Unlimited GBs of site transfer
- Unlimited forwarding e-mail Accounts
- Unlimited e-mail auto-responder
- Unlimited add-on domains
- Unlimited parked domains
- Unlimited subdomains
- Unlimited additional FTP accounts
- 100 MySQL databases
- 100 PostgreSQL databases
- IMAP/secure IMAP e-mail support
- 3 Different Web-based e-mail solutions
- CGI-BIN
- CGI library
- Server side includes
- Frontpage 2000/2002 extensions
- Account "Control Panel"
- FTP Access
- Shell Access (SSH)
- Override .htaccess Support
- Anonymous FTP
- Webmail (browser-based e-mail)
- Log files and site statistics
- Customizable Error Pages
- Web file manager
- Custom Cronjobs
- Spam Assassin Protection
- Fantastico Script Support