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After hosted with hostmonster for more than a week, finally i got the need to setup new email accounts at host monster. i want to have own email account and should look like “support [at] hostmonsterreview.org” … I will use this email for those seo, directory submission and website promotional work purpose.

Email setup at host monster is very easy and simple, i will tell you how and why after this. Basically, not only web developer can do this, any home user that is new to hosting and email setup can do this. Everything is step by step, and with clear message to guide you through. You will see what i meant.

Back to email setup at hostmonster. Login to your cpanel xp evolution control panel and go to mail menu. See figure below:

As you can see at the popup message “you can set up as many POP e-mail account as you require…”… And onyl with hostmonster hosting, you can have unlimited number of email accounts. Sign up here to get this features.

After doing that, you will now at the mail account maintenance interface…that look just like this. Where your existing email accounts will shown here, and you can change setting to it, change its mail box qouta, change password etc.

The way down, there is a button “add account”.. click on it and will open up a new page. Enter in your new email account name. Select which domain this email will attached to. You can setup email for addon domains as well, just selec the right domain name. Assign new password to this email, and Quota limit, left it to default value of 10Megs.

After you setup your email account, you can view its through the hostmonster webmail. Click on the webmail will bring up the new page which ask for password to login to your webmail. Enter password to proceed.

You can link this email account to your outlook account as well. I using outlook express, and the setup process is very simple. i just set the incoming mail server and outgoing mailserver to : mail.hostmonsterreview.org .. and leave the login with authentication those fancy setup blanked. Hostmonster email is easy connect to and not require any advance setup. Futhermore its using the standard smtp/email port 25. which is widely supported.

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This hostmonster reviews blog had been setup 2 months back for reviewing hostmonster.com hosting. And lately, which is one week back, i signup hostmonster and move this site to host monster. The migration work is easy and very smooth. With little interuption of currently running website.

I also spend a little time to customise the original wordpress theme: glosssy blue. And change the header section to become rounded header, added left-right border on the content page, personalised the footer as well. And i added the hostmonster banners to this blog as well. Not to be too interupting. Image speak a thousand words. This blog customization and web design work will continue up to some time, and i will release the customised version of glossy blue for download.

Hostmonster cpanel is very easy to use and navigate. Yesterday i added in a new email account for this domain name. And later using outlook express to connecting to the hostmonster mail server. Everything is smooth, easy setup, clear instruction, and i completed all setup in less than 5 minutes.

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Hostmonster $5.95 hosting plan allow you to host unlimited number of domains/websites. Beside the 300GB web space,  you can redirect and host unlimited number of website at hostmonster hosting account. For example you have a domain name, www.yourdomain12345.com and you can add this domain to host monster, and let the website to be hosted here. Visitor will view webpage from hostmonster server.

If you are a beginner, firstly you will need a new domain name. Usually we can buy domain from any third party registra, for example: godaddy, enom, tocows etc. After we got the domain name and its control panel, login to the control panel, and make changes to the DNS (domain name server)… lets point the domain to hostmonster. To do this, change to nameserver to following:

• Primary nameserver: ns1.hostmonster.com
• Secondary nameserver: ns2.hostmonster.com

After completed these, wait for domain propagation to complete. This can take up to 48 hours. Once its done, login to host monster cpanel xp evolution and go to addon domains. From here, enter the new domain name, give the folder a name same as the domain name, and password can be the same as your cpanel password. See below as the sample of how i add hostmonsterreview.org to the addon domain list.

Experience Yourself Hostmonster Hosting

Come to my attention, from online forum, i found a posting from Hostmonster president, Matt Heaton. Matt was explaining how the affiliate system helps the company to grow fast, as we can see here, boost from 75,000 domains hosted to 100,000 domain hosted now. Hostmonster providing $65 affiliate commission to those that recommend friends or anyone to signup host monster hosting.

With these affiliate commission, basically hostmonster gain lots of promoter, people that work hard to recommend hostmonster over the internet. And with this strategy, they helps hostmonster to increase sales and increase reputation. This system is very profiting for host monster indead.

How about the affiliate side, are they earning that much? Fact is, affiliate life is totally depend on luck. This week you make a sales, not meaning next week you going to make another sales. Promotional effort and advertising cost is self absorb. If affiliate use PPC advertising network like google adwords, the affiliate are paying great amount of money to promote hostmonster hosting. From research, i found out that you will need to spend $2 to $3 to buy a click from adword. And if within 100 clicks that you get, you getting 2 signup. It will cost you $200, and you only gaining profit of $65×2 = $130. So, you can see here, you will need to have higher conversion rate. One sales within 50 clickthrough is not going to work, you will need a sales within 20 clicks, to reach break even state.

From basic, affiliate system is designed for small rewarding purpose. You get your friend to sign up, and hostmonster paid you. You cost nothing and get the $65, then yes this system works. Thus you can see, this is not an business to invested in. I wrote another review regarding hostgator affiliate losing $16k for promoting the system.

As i said, if you know someone that need a hosting plan, so thus quicky signup hostmonster account, and add the affiliate code to your website, or include it into your email. So that your friend can click on it, and use the link to purchase hosting plan from hostmonster. And then you will earn an easy $65 sweet painless money

Signup Hostmonster Hosting

Since 7 weeks back, i been started to review about Hostmonster.com. The first impression they gave me is not enough to convience me to signup their hosting plan. As i remember, 7 weeks back, hostmonster is hosting about 75,000 domains. And now, March 2007, we had seen the numbers boost to 100,000 figures. This shows a dramatic increase in their customers and so does the website hosted at hostmonster servers.

Beside the increase in their hosting websites, i also spend lots of time to search for hostmonster user reviews, customer reviews off-course. Definately i not going for those crap affiliate review pages that filled with nothing but fake make up review story. After reviewing more than 30+ customer reviews, which i record it down in excel format. I realised that hostmonster customers are happy with the service they get. And this encourage me to sign up hostmonster hosting as well.

User testimonial is important in reviewing a hosting provider. After being convienced, i had decided to signup hostmonster hosting and i did it. And after sign up, i moved this review blog to hostmonster hosting. By this, www.hostmonsterreview.org is now hosted with hostmonster hosting.

Experience Hostmonster Hosting

This hostmonster review blog had been running for 7th weeks now, and just found out that i forget to list out the hostmonster hosting and its products pricing. Before you singup any hosting plan, remember to know in details and confirm about their pricing structure. I come across hosting that charge $50 for backup services. which is scarely expensive.

Hostmonster hosting pricing structure that i obtained from hostmonster hosting:

• 3 Month account $7.95 a month + $30.00 setup fee.
• 6 Month account $7.95 a month + $30.00 setup fee.
• 12 Month account $7.95 a month with no setup fee and free domain included.
• 24 Month account $5.95 a month with no setup fee and free domain included.

Hostmonster additional products pricing:

• Domain names $10.00 per year.
• Dedicated ip pricing: $2.50 per month.
• SSL Certificates pricing: $45.00 per year.

Experience Hostmonster Hosting

From Hostmonster hosting’s cpanel X, you can find the backup tools and utilities. It’s a free tools included in every user account. You are adviced to periodically backup your site. The frequency of backup is depend on how often you make changes to your website. For my cases, where i update the website once a week, i will do backup after i make the new changes.

The website backup utility covering backup of your cpanel setting, and also database backup. For mysql backup, as an alternative, you also can use the phpmyadmin to backup the database through their export utility.

Its adviced that you copy and save the copy of the backup files in “.tar.gz format. For windows user, just save it as a normal file. And this is the file that you need to restore back your website in case of hostmonster server crash.

Although the server is daily backup by hostmonster support, its still not 100% fully guarantee of anything. We need to take account of human error as well. So, here is why the backup tools is in place to privide you easiest way to backup your website and database.

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