HostMonster Web Hosting Package

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.

You all know I’m a big fans of web hosting GUI cPanel. Following up on my previous post: Are you happy with cPanel at HostMonster? I would like to talk about the advantages of this web hosting control panel.

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.

Its use is increasing day by day, making it the most popular hosting panel through out the world, but why? Definitely it provides 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 they are:

• 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.

Many wonder what system is HostMonster using for its server bandwidth. Well, the quick answer is HostMonster uses the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) system for their file transfer bandwidth.

In case you’ve never heard of it, the SONET system is a fiber-optic high speed transmission system made for digital traffic. Only with such system, HostMonster is able to provides such fat bandwidth for their customers.

A search on the Internet shows that HostMonster bandwidth is technically an OC-48 Backbone Connection, 48 times faster than a basic DS-3 or TS-3 network data connection. This is one of the fastest fiber optic connections found on the internet today. HostMonster Bandwidth also uses fast Intel Xeon quad processing servers for high speed processing of requests over the network. HostMonster Bandwidth also is supported by synchronized power and a 99.999% uptime guarantee for all web hosting accounts.

To wrap things up, here’s a quick glance on HostMonster bandwidth features:

Synchronous Optical Networking

OC-48 Backbone Connection

Intel Xeon quad processing servers

99.999% uptime guarantee

Top bandwidth speeds in the industry

HostMonster allows you to have unlimited FTP accounts/connections to the server. This means you can have virtually no restriction at all working on FTP file transfers – such like sharing musics and videos with friends via your host server on Hostmonster. Cool, isn’t?

Err, okay, so you’re a beginner and not sure what’s FTP. Well, FTP (aka File Transfer Protocol, or file transfer program) is the program and protocol which allows files to be transferred across the Internet. The FTP is also incorporated into WWW browsers such as Internet Explorer and FireFox. In layman term, FTP is a method to upload and download files to your web server (in our case, Hostmonster web server).

How to add a FTP account and transfer file via FTP in HostMonster

You will need a FTP account on your HostMonster account and a third party FTP program to access your files. As default, your username/password is the passes for FTP access. For example in my case, I can login to my FTP account using the username and password that I created when I first signed up with HostMonster. 

You can also add a new FTP account (as Hostmonster offer unlimited FTP account) for your friends or families for the access.

FTP account is easy to be created and shown below is the ‘control page’ for creating FTP account.

Also, Hostmonster allow you to create an anonymonus FTP account where no password is requried for the login. This may be useful if you have files that you wish to be publicly available for download. However, you should be aware that allowing anonymous users to access any part of your system may be considered a security hole.

All the fuctions related to FTP can be found at your cPanel froun page, under category ‘File’.