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Yesterday i stop at hostmonster homepage and see they put up a title that they having 170,000 domains hosted. And today i revisited thier official site and want to confirm the figure for my writing in this hostmonster review blog. I seen that the figure is now 175,000 domain hosted.

About two months back, host monster is having about 130,000 domains hosted. And now its growing to 175k. Which is an impressive growth rate. Furthermore the hosting features had been slightly upgraded or changed as well. August we also see the hostmonster cpanel upgrading to version 11. And with fastcgi and dynamic cache features. I will review more on this features in my upcoming blog posting.

Not only that, hostmonster forums are growing side-by-side. I quit active in their forums, and notice that there is increased number of active members and also increased forums activity and posting rate.

This dramatic growth, simply indicate that hostmonster hosting is getting popular and well accepted by customer. And so far, the customer feedback/response are very positive. Even myself is a hostmonster customer, and absolutely happy with their hosting services.

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On early of month, Hostmonster support sent out email acknowledging user that their cpanel control panel will be upgraded on 8th August 2007. And today i login to my hostmonster account, and found out the new cpanel is already there. Very very nice and impressive look and feel.Apple green background, couple with good combination of graphics make the control panel look more attractive and comfortable with.

The previous hostmonster cpanel evolution x is look bad, if compare to this new cpanel theme.  The information or account information is much easier accessible. All require stat is display on the left column. And right column are all the account management tools. I still playing with the new interface, and at this time, i found out its very easy to navigate around. Also notice that this cpanel version 11 is much faster, when compare to the old cpanel evolution x version.

Glad they upgraded to the new cpanel, and much happy as i can share this with you are well 

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If you want to hide or protect your domain information from reachable by anyone that running the WHOIS check on your domain name, then you will need to activate the domain privacy. On sign up to hostmonster, 12 months or 24 months, the domain privacy is offered for free. And you can use this to protect your primary domain for free. If you buying more domains, you can order domain privacy as well. Simple as that.

Once domain privacy is activated, public user can’t see your contact information and who the domain belong to and registered under which email address. Thus, your privacy is protected. Your domain registrar information will be display instead.

This is what wikipedia said about domain privacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy

“Domain privacy is offered by several registrars such as Go Daddy, Network Solutions, eNom and so forth. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user’s info in the whois with the info of a proxy service such as Domains by Proxy or Whois Privacy Protection Service.”

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If you are new to hostmonster hosting, definately you need to check on their hosting features before signing up with them. Chosen the wrong hosting plan is the most painful experience, and require some migration work that might take your whole day of time. Selecting the right plan, does safe your life

Luckily hostmonster is offering both php version 4 and php version 5. And my hosting with hostmonster is still using the php4, and there is no current plan to upgrade to php5. As the wordpress script that i using now is require only php 4 and above.

If you need to run some custom script etc, do check on their system requirement. And selecting the right hosting features. If you come across that require php 5, you can contact support to move your site over to php 5 server. Just email to support and request for php 5 upgrade. They will do the remaining work. Simple as that.

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With hostmonster 300gb hosting plan, you are allow to host unlimited number of websites/domains. This is througth the use off addon domains feature in cpanel. Parked domain is different case, and most newbies got confused with it, and do the wrong thing. Fact is that, you can setup few websites at this hostmonster shared hosting plan. I having 4 websites here, each with own TLD (.com, org, net.. etc)

Domain parking is domain pointers allow you to “point” or “park” additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This will allow users to also reach your website when entering the “parked” or “pointed” domain into their browsers. Meaning giving your website an alternative name. Few domain names, pointed to the same website.

Here is what wikipedia said about parked domains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_parking

“Domain Parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.”

You can easily access the parked domain feature from the hostmonster cpanel evolution main page. And you are allow to create as many parked domain name as you need it. Here is the account information at hostmonster account shows:

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Hostmonster 300gb hosting plan start from $7.95 for 12 months sign up. And with 24 months sign up, you can get a discounted price of $5.95. Which is a $2 x 24 months, a total of $48 dollars in saving if you sign up 24 months together. Its a good offer, and its definately a good decision to sign up hostmonster.

I sign up hostmonster.com for almost 4 months now, and so far so good. Only once i faced the downtime, and the server uptime monitoring program is running 24/7 to remotely monitoring this hostmonster uptime. I really impressed by the quality server and uptime.

You will not need hostmonster coupon or hostmonster coupon code to get this discounted price sign up. What you will need is go to hostmonster order page and at the billing information, select payment by credit card or paypal. And without entering host monster coupon code, at the package/account plan, click the drop down andyou will see the $5.95 on the 24 months plan. No setup fee and free domain name included, free domain provacy as well.

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Ever wakeup in the morning, and found out your email account is flooded with junk mail again and again? The right solution to solve email spamming will be using the right tool. At hostmonster, your email account created, will have the spam protection features: spam assissin and boxtrapper.

Spam Assassin : “is an automated mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic algorithms on mail headers and message body text to identify “SPAM” (unsolicited email). Once identified, the mail is tagged as SPAM for later filtering using the user’s desktop mail client. All spam mail goes to spam box, and you still can check those mail if you like, or delete it with single click of a button.“

Boxtrapper : “protects your inbox from spam by forcing all people not on your white list to reply to a verifcation email before they can send mail to you. You can create your white list and add your contacts to this list. Also create a black list and add all spammer email to this address.”

These are the two most effective spam protection system available today, and its available free of charge at your hostmonster shared hosting with unlimited email accounts.

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Hostmonster.com is hosting plan that come with 300gb storage space and allow you to host unlimited domains, or websites in another word. Other than that, with hostmonster, you are given unlimited pop/IMAP email accounts. Meaning you can create or add as many email account you like, and each with own email space and login password. Each email also come with autoresponder, spam assissin & boxtrapper. Will come more on these mail spam protection on later posting.

From cpanel, you can login to the webmail through these: cpanel > webmail > choose horde or squirrelmail webmail. I most prefer horde cause the user interface is much better. Below are the screenshot of the horde and squirrelmail respectively:

You also can directly go to your webmail by browsing to yourdomain.com/webmail , and enter email login information to complete the login and goes to your email account. By this, eliminate the need to go through cpanel login.

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Hostmonster.com hosting server is so realible, and the downtime is merely impossible. This the main reason i love hostmonster so much. Their web server uptime is good, and email pop/smtp server uptime is good as well. My outlook will connect to hostmonster mail server every 5 minutes to check for mail, and its very unlikely to jump into outlook connection error to hostmonster.

After 4 months with hostmonster, i finally met some downtime at hostmonster server. Its where the website hosted with hostmonster is not available for about 10 minutes. The time i realise it, i had the server status monitoring system running, just to monitor the downtime if any. Email alert arive and i quickly jump to hostmonster.com and start a live chat with the support team to acknowledge them on the site downtime.

And after few minutes with the hostmonster support, and some ping and tracert testing from my pc. Finally found out the problem is caused by internet route between me and hostmonster datacentre. Somewhere between us is having internet failure. Thus result in the downtime of about 10 minutes.

Here is the live chat session that i manage to copy out:

Visitor Name: charles
Question: hi. my website is running very very slow. primary domain: http://www.freedirectorysubmitter.org http://www.hostmonsterreview.org/ almost not loading complete. cause take forever. pls help. thanks
IP Address: 219.95.45.160
Browser Information: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar; FDM)
Capture Information:

charles 8:48:18 AM: server status shows that https failed

Marc 8:48:21 AM: I am finding the web pages to be served quickly and the server is running optimally. Are you still getting a slow response at this moment?

8:48:39 AM: It does show that, but this is not a performance factor.

charles 8:49:20 AM: getting connection timeout. because i got another account wit BH (same loc) is fine.

8:51:09 AM: tracert shows that some problem at sanjose-ca.us.xo.net…. where start getting the * *

8:51:58 AM: internet problem??

Marc 8:52:07 AM: I am glad you performed the tracert already. This may be the source of the problem of viewing your site slowly. There may be a bad communication with your ISP and the ISP in San Jose.

8:52:41 AM: thanks marc

charles 8:52:39 AM: i see. ok then i should try again other time.

Marc 8:52:47 AM: You are welcome

I had been using hostmonster hosting for few months now, and it is a good hosting provider. Now i having 3 websites setup in this single hostmonster account, which i sign up single year plan, and paid $7.95 per month. No regrete, as there is no trouble with hostmonster hosting. Its a great hosting that i no need to worry about. This hostmonsterreview.org is running strong and getting more and more visitor each day. And i having a great success with hostmonster hosting.

This wordpress blog is hosted with host monster, and you can use it to test out the hosting speed and performance as well. Refer to menu bar above for the speed test result. Yup, i run a few speed test on this hostmonster websites, and the result are quit impressive.

Before sign up hostmonster.com, you probably need to take a look at hostmonster cpanel and get a demo test run on it. Just to make sure all the features is there. Have to say, its cpanel control panel, and all features is there .. I using host monster, and the following is my account cpanel look like:

Its a well organised cpanel control panel, and most importantly it support few languages. You can use the top menu bar to select the prefered language and you cpanel content will switch to selected language.

If you need actual test run of hostmonster cpanel, go to this link from hostmonster: http://www.hostmonster.com/cgi-bin/cplogin?domain=hostmonsterdemo.com&password=demotest

Note that this is a demo cpanel, and some feature is turned off. Once you sign up and got your account, you will have the full featured cpanel.

Hostmonster is 300gb hosting which allow you to host unlimited number of websites. Sign up today, and your account will be activated almost instantly… And a big welcome to hostmonster hosting!

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