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HOST MONSTER REVIEW
Host Monster was born in early 2001 as a small, two-man shop in a basement office Victoria, Texas. That changed quickly as the company grew and progressed over time. In 2007 Host Monster separated from another provider and emerged as a top providing host. |
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| Your website or websites will be housed in a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art XO data center in Irvine, CA, designed to withstand the most extreme weather conditions, electrical outages, hacker attempts, and other safety, privacy, and security threats. Over 25,000 individuals and companies trust Host Monster to serve their websites. |
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All Host Monster packages include free setup, free live 24/7/365 support, free Domain Names for life, a number of free software tools such as a Site Builder and web analytics tools. Host Monster also gives users unlimited email addresses. In addition to Linux and Windows hosting, Host Monster offers a Virtual Private Server (VPS) server package.
Host Monster's solid reputation, uptime statistics, reliability and pricing, combined with reviews of customers have earned Host Monster our Editor's Choice Award for 2008. |
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"Host Monster has been amazing! I have been with them for several years now and from the very beginning they have helped me get and stay online. Their customer support has been nothing short of awesome." Christina Lopez, Los Angeles, CA
"Thank you for the excellent customer service! You've saved my butt several times." Steve Vargas, Kissimmee, FL |
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General Comments:
Host Monster has been around for some time and a search of usergroups, blogs and forums does not reveal any negative comments regarding Host Monster.
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Price Value
Host Monster avoids the industry-standard 20-odd packages for its all-in-one, "everything-you-need" package. The wealth of features - web design tools, email tools, online statistics tools, e-commerce tools, and more - that come free with this web hosting package makes Host Monster - already a bargain at $5.99 for unlimited disk space and unlimited data transfer - an even better value. Host Monster includes for free what other hosts provide as options.
Host Monster stands behind its 99.9% uptime guarantee and its 99.9% network uptime guarantee. There is a gotcha, however, with its 45-day money back guarantee - it's not 100%. If you cancel, you forfeit the $9.95 domain name registration fee Host Monster incurred when getting you your free domain name, though you will walk away owning your domain name. We take no issue with this considering that the cost of a domain name is usually $9.95, so at least they aren't over-charging for the domain name. |
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Reliability
Host Monster has a high customer retention rate, probably because of its top-of-the-line equipment and an experienced team of administrators making sure those servers are always up. Host Monster's network operations center touts 3 OC-3s with double redundancy. Host Monster has little difficulty holding fast to their 99.9% uptime and network uptime guarantees. Remember that with just about every uptime guarantee provided by web hosts there are exclusions, such as upstream provider failures. Host Monster is no different. |
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HOST RATINGS |
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| Price |
9.5/10 |
| Performance |
9.5/10 |
| Reliability |
9.5/10 |
| Support |
10/10 |
| Control Panel |
8.5/10 |
| User Feedback |
9.0/10 |
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| TOTAL SCORE |
93.3 |
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