Hostmonster Review & Discount $3.95/mth – Host Monster Hosted

To those that requiring to have frontpage extension on their shared hosting plan, hostmonster hosting does offering this front page extension feature. And you can enable the frontpage extension via hostmonster cpanel, select the domain that you want to have the frontpage installed.

“Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method.

Warning: Installing or uninstalling Frontpage Extensions will result in the loss of all .htaccess files in your web area. Any changes you have made to your “.htaccess” files will be lost. Any directories you have protected with WebProtect will become unprotected until you reprotect them.“

Monitoring your website traffic and visitors are made easy with these web traffic loggin software. Hostmonster offering both webalizer and awstats logs program, that you can activate via hostmonster cpanel. Choose the domain or website that you want to log and track.

You can have clear statistic showing the hourly, daily, or monthly web traffic and patent to your website. You can learn where the visitor came from, what search keyword they used to get to your website, and which page of the website are they viewing, and lots more details are logged and display in statistic format.

Hostmonster web hosting is selling at very low price of $4.95 per month. And now you can get hostmonster hosting with free website templates for downloads as well. From hostmonster cpanel, you will find the free website templates link. Once clicked, it will bring you to the template website. Few type of web templates and flash templates available. Paid template also available, by paying one time access fee, you can gain access to over 3000+ web templates, flash templates and powerpoint templates.

On three months ago, i write a review article title “hostmonster support quality compromised”.. and it can be found here. After the month of poor service uptime that had been caused by massive server upgrading works by both bluehost and hostmonster servers. And this hostmonster hosted website had been effected as well.

Now, its 3 months after the server upgrade. What do we get?
Clearly from the recent 2 months of hostmonster uptime statistic and monitoring, it clearly shown that hostmonster uptime had reached above 99.9% and giving a very good server response time. The server is responding in 0.2 second in average.

Hostmonster support team had done a great job in bringing the servers back to running stat in short time. And delivering a better performance servers which is more reliable and giving better service uptime as well. The server hardware and software upgrade had proven itself.

Hostmonster uptime for November 2008: 99.907% over the Internet. Source by www.hostmonsterreview.org

For this november 2008, once again hostmonster uptime had reach above the 99.9% uptime guarantee. This time it landed at 99.907% uptime, with 6 minor service downtime detected, and longest downtime only last for 10 minutes. Probably is due to server reboot.

Hostmonster server response time is very fast, at 0.201 second. This reflecting the fast & reliable server from hostmonster hosting.

I have experienced with both joomla and drupal, installation and running websites with these scripts. Before this i had tested to install joomla at hostmonster, and now i am testing drupal installation at hostmonster hosting.

Drupal CMS offering powerful framework, which includes lots of module that you can import in and enable its and will extent your website features. You can have hompage, member login feature, voting, contact page, blog, forum.. added to your existing drupal site. Absolutely no coding require!

You can login hostmonster cpanel > simple scripts > drupal > drupal version v6.6

Once you had installed Drupal, you can configure your website from drupal admin site, add in module and enable function, load in new drupal and website template design, and publish your website online. Host your drupal website with hostmonster hosting $3.95/mo, compatible and works for your budget too.

Hostmonster hosting is my most prefered web hosting company, offering the latest web hosting features at affordable price of $4.95/month only. Hostmonster server uptime is very good as well, you can refer to hostmonster uptime statistic posted in this hostmonster blog for details.

Hostmonster web hosting is a unlimited domain hosting plan, means you can host many websites, as many as you want. Up to 100 MySQL databases are provided for your hostmonster hosting account. You can add/create new mysql database from cpanel at anytime.

Following is the hostmonster database information and phpmyadmin information:

• Apache version 2.2.9 (Unix)
• PHP version 5.2.6
• MySQL version 5.0.45-community-log
• phpMyAdmin – 2.11.9.1
• MySQL charset:  UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

You don’t need to have dedicated server in order to have task scheduling as a standard feature that you can access to. PHP hosting plan is now offering with cron jobs, a task scheduling feature that you can use to execute command or php script file at scheduled time or interval.

When you access to hostmonster cpanel and go to cron jobs section, you can see these message.

“Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week so that your disk space is not being used up by those files.”

“Warning: You need to have a good knowledge of Linux commands before you can use cron jobs effectively. Check your script with your hosting administrator before adding a cron job.“

“This is a web interface to the crontab program. It allows you to run commands at any time you specify. Enter the command you would like to run as well as running times.“

At the hostmonster cron jobs section, you can enter the unix command that you can to execute and then set the day time months year to execute these command. Once you are done, save cron jobs and test it out.

If you want to make sure hostmonster hosting is supporting .htaccess overwrite or not? here is the right place to find the full review about hostmonster & .htaccess overwrite. Basically .hatccess file provide lots of function, and extend the power of php linux server. You will require .htaccess file for most of the open source php scripts to run properly. You even can use it for url redirection and setting of default page as well.

From hostmonster cpanel X, there is no .htaccess editor found. so, you will need to edit the .hatccess file manually and upload it to server. Usually when you using php scripts like wordpress or joomla or drupal, the .htaccess file already been provided in those scripts, you only require to upload them to server.

I have this wordpress blog with custom .htaccess file running in server, everything working perfectly fine!

Hostmonster hosting is an affordable php web hosting selling at $3.95/mo discount price, and this hostmonster hosting  plan is also supporting joomla, mambo, and drupal scripts. These three are the few famous CMS scripts that offering you complete framework to creating new website, and they are running in php environment with mysql database.

To make your joomla script installation much easier, hostmonster hosting is offering “simple scripts” installer in their cpanel control panel. You can login cpanel, go to simple scripts, at content management section choose the joomla script. Current joomla version is 1.5.8. There are other alternate version available as well.

“Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.“

Following is sample screenshot of website created with joomla CMS scripts. Hostmonster is joomla website compatible, host your joomla website at hostmonster $3.95/mo hosting plan today!