HostMonster Web Hosting Package

Here’s a question often asked by web hosting shoppers: How soon can my website goes online?

Whenever you’re ordering your hosting service from Hostmonster, your account will be setup within the next hour of your purchase. As long as the payment is completed, you will receive your account details via email, at which point you can access to your website control panel.

At this point, your website is already accessible online - Uploading your webpages via FTP (If you already have your files ready) and pointing your domain to the right DNS are the things to do at this point.

Answering the question: your website actually goes online almost as soon as your payment is completed. However, it might took 24-48 hours for the world to see it fully online. Reason being? It normally takes a  day or two for the Domain Name Server (DNS) to fully sort out.

Thus answering the question (again) in more detail: You can access (and work out) your website as soon as your payment is completed but do expect a day or two for the rest of the world to see your website. Got it?

Troubled by email spam always? Well not anymore if you signed up with Hostmonster’s Postini premium mail filter services. At price of $1/month, Hostmonster users can have Postini helping to keep their inbox free from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email threats.

As mentioned by Hostmonster/Postini officials, Postini offers complete spam and virus protection where multi layers comprehensive security system is applied to stop spam, viruses, phihing, DoS, directory harvest attacheds. On top of that, users get detailed quarantine summary reporting via a convenient web console.

How much does this cost?

$1/month per email address.

Where to signup Postini services at Hostmonster?

Simple. Login to Hostmonster cPanel after you signed up with Hostmonster. (if you haven’t signup with Hostmonster, please do so at here.)

Check on your left bar (on the notice column) for the Postini logo; or scroll a little below for the Postini icon which named as “Premium Anti-Spam”. Refer to image below in case you couldn’t find any:

A little more details on Postini

Postini, a now wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc., is the global leader in on-demand solutions that deliver on the promise of Communication Security and Compliance. The company is founded in year 1999 and based in San Carlos, California, United States.

At the time of writing, Postini claims that there are more than 40,000 businesses worldwide depend on Postini and they are processing over 1 billion messages per day. Official website: www.PostiniDirect.com.

Well, if this’s not your first time here, you should knew that I am a big fans of cPanel.

For newbies, cPanel is a graphical web hosting control panel that makes the website administration so simple and easy. It runs on Linux based systems, and provides users with efficient working with no loss of time. CPanel is accessed via 2082 and 2083 ports using HTTP or web page login.

Nowadays if you signed up your shared hosting account, most probably you’ll ended up using cPanel. Bluehost, Hostmonster, Hostgator, WebHosting Pad, Lunarpages… all these well known names are offering their hosting service in cPanel.

“But why cPanel?”, you might ask.

Long answer short, it’s because that cPanel is providing (in my opinion) the best service that users need. Why CPanel is the choice of most of the web hosting companies has many answers, depending on individual user’s choice, but in general here’s what I think:

• CPanel provides easy to use interface.
• The front end simplifies various operations, including, mail, FTP accounts, Web Stats, Backups, Sub domain configuration etc.
• It supports Fantastico, that offers bundle of free and ready made scripts for users and hence much of the support’s burden from hosting company’s end reduces.
• CPanel keeps Apache, PHP, and MySQL etc up to date.
• Supports WHM [Web Host Manager] making the web hosting too easy, and best suitable for people with too many sites.