Host Monster web hosting review - web hosting

Host Monster is a host with a very different approach to affordable web site hosting plans. With plans starting with 200GB of disk space and 2,000GB of data transfer, customers of the affordable shared hosting accounts won't be getting the chance to run out of disk space. Monthly prices at Host Monster start at $3.50, a very acceptable price given the resources a customer is allocated.

The plans come with many unlimited features across the board - particularly those of e-mail services and FTP services. Accounts are "limited" to one-hundred MySQL databases and the same again for PostgreSQL databases - even though we use the word "limited", one-hundred databases is hardly a limitation. One feature that sets Host Monster apart from other is ability to host an unlimited number of domain names - usually, large affordable web hosting plan hosts limit you to between five and ten domain names, so to prevent reselling.

HostMonster provide telephone support on top of their regular e-mail support, which is an added assurance of quality and direct contact with a staff member should things ever go wrong. Host Monster power their affordable web hosting plans using an in-house, proprietary control panel. The control panel appears to be quite solid and reliable - in fact, more responsive than any cPanel control panel hosting accounts we have reviewed.

Host Monster is a reliable host, with a great deal of experience in the web hosting industry. A customer will be quite safe in the knowledge that the company is here to stay - quite unlike a vast majority of web hosting outfits.