Rating Summary:
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Plus Points:
- Excellent customer service and technical support. Well trained support staff
- Reliable and fast servers
- Well suited for Business web Hosting as well as shared web hosting
Hosting Plans and features:
Like Bluehost, HostMonster also offers just one Linux plan for customers. Plan cost
is $6.95 per month(only $3.95 per month if you use our special link-->Special discount rate for Hostmonster) and it includes unlimited disk space, unlimited
data transfer and unlimited e-mail accounts. This plan is lots of features
such as database support(MySQL databases -100), multiple language support(CGI, FrontPage,
Perl , PHP, Ruby / Ruby on Rails), Open source software (blog apps like wordpress,
content management systems{Mambo, Joomla, Drupal}, forum software(phpbb),
e-commerce tools, etc), Shell access (SSH) and CRON job support. It also includes DIY
SEO tools(free search engine submission). If you are not very technical, they have
a free site builder tool which lets you create and design your own website.
Hostmonster also has cPanel (control panel software) to maintain your web site(s).
The control panel has support for multiple languages. The control panel lets you
access/manage your emails, databases, ftp accounts, website statistics, website
configuration, cron jobs, FTP manager, site builder tool. Also it lets you create/manage
free software (blogs/cms etc) via control panel.
Customer Support and Infrastructure
The big plus of HostMonster is their excellent customer support. Customer support
is via toll free sales number(24/7) and staff is well trained. They also an excellent
help section and knowledgebase. Support issues are tracked via support ticket
system.
Their customer Service average telephone hold time is less than 2 minutes. Chat service staffs are responsive and helpful. Chat response time is less than 1 minute.
Infrastructure: HostMonster uses high performance and reliable equipments and servers
are very fast. Their uptime rating is very high and is one of the factors that makes
this hosting company a successful one.
Summary:
A very good recommendation for anyone who is looking for a reliable host that won't
break your budget. Good support combined with excellent features - all in a great
price. We have given a 5 star rating.
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