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About HostMonster Web Hosting

Hostmonster has been providing web hosting services to businesses and personal web sites since 1996. This puts Hostmonster up there with the longer running web hosting providers which should mean they are not going to disappear overnight and take your valued web sites with them.

Webhosting Overview

Host Rating: 94%
General Impression: 91%
Features: 93%
Price/Quality: 90%
Reliability& Uptime: 95%
Support: 93%
Connectivity: 92%
Overall uptime: 99.415 %

Webhosting Features

Host Multiple Domains: Unlimited
Web Space: 1,500 GB
Free Domain Registration: 1 Free For Life
Dedicated IP Addresses: 8 IP
Data Transfer: 15,000 GB Monthly Bandwidth
Sub Domains: Unlimited
POP3 Email: Unlimited
MySQL Databases: 100
Web Site Builder: Yes
Money Back: 30 days
Support: Free 24/7 Support by Phone, Live Chat, e-mail, Ticket
Free $100 Marketing Bonus and Free Search Engine Submission

Hosting Control Panel

Hostmonster provides the industry standard cPanel control panel for administration of your web sites, so those who have used cPanel before will feel right at home here.

The panel can be configured for a large variety of different languages via a drop-down selection, so those for whom English is not their first language will most likely find their native language supported.

Besides the usual domain and website configuration options, the panel also provides access to a web-based file manager, an FTP manager and an easy to use page wizard, allowing even beginners to create professional looking web pages from a large variety of ready-made templates.

Technology

Quad Processor Performance Servers, Customized Apache Web Server, UPS Power Back-up/ Back-up Generator, 24/7 Monitoring, Courtesy Site Backups, OC-48 Backbone Connection.

Tools

HostMonster provide Blogs: b2evolution Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress
Content Management: Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, TYPO3, Xoops
Customer Relationship: Crafty Syntax Live Help, Help Center Live, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHP Support Tickets, Support Logic Helpdesk, Support Services Manager
Discussion Boards: phpBB2, SMF
E-Commerce: CubeCart, OS Commerce, Zen Cart
F.A.Q.: FAQMasterFlex
Guestbooks: ViPER Guestbook
Hosting Billing: AccountLab Plus, phpCOIN
Image Galleries: 4Images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, Gallery
Mailing Lists: PHPlist
Polls and Surveys: Advanced Poll, phpESP, PHPSurveyor
Project Management: PHProjekt
Site Builders: Templates Express
Wiki: TikiWiki, PhpWiki
Other Scripts: Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, phpFormGenerator, WebCalendar
Extras: Language, Side menu appearance, Email notifications, Installations overview.

Reliability

HostMonster provides reliable hosting services. They use redundant system in order to provide maximum uptime and performance. HostMonster utilizes top quality equipment. Data is kept safe and secure through their reliable backup services. In case of a power outage UPS backup and backup generators are also used in order to keep things up and running. Quad Opteron Servers are used to offer high performance hosting services.

Awards

Best Customer Service 2006 by hosting reviews.
#2 Best Overall Web Host 2006 by Top 10
Cheap Realiable Unix Hosting by Web Hosting Geeks (2006)
Top 5 Web Host Of The Year by Web hosting review
#2 Rated Best Best Host by Host Critique"

What Costumers say about Glabat

"Host monster is a good hosting company with excellent shared Linux hosting plans."
Denver; Besthosts.co

"HostMonster is a new host and gaining a pretty good reputation. It looks like it is owned by BlueHost and they offer some very simple shared web hosting plans that have a lot of great features." Jeff