HostMonster Web Hosting Package

Don’t be fooled by some unethical Hostmonster affiliates that tell you Hostmonster users are getting free web templates downloads. There are quite a lot of blogpost and articles promoting Hostmonster’s hosting services by listing ‘Free Web Templates by DreamTemplate‘ as one of the incentives for Hostmonster sign ups.

The truth about Hostmonster’s free web templates

However, that’s not the truth entirely.

When HM users sign into their cPanel, they’ll see a link pointing to DreamTemplate at the top of the page (refer figure below) under ‘Partners’ category.

From my understanding the link works as strategic partnership for Hostmonster with DreamTemplate, where HM users are referred to DreamTemplate for web templates download. It’s in fact good to have the link embedded in the cPanel interface as it provides a short cut for the users who are in need. Unfortunately, the smart (but unethical) HM affiliates create an ‘illusion’ that confuse consumers that this is a special promotional item.

So hey, if you’re signing up HM because you think there’re free templates to be grabbed – don’t. The offer with Dream Template doesn’t get any better for HM users. DreamTemplate users get the same package with the same price ($59.95) with or without a Hostmonster memberships.

About DreamTemplate

DreamTemplate offers unlimited downloads on various templates (Web, Flash, Word, PowerPoint, Clipart, and so on) with just one time payment. At the time of writing, there are over 3,000 web templates available in the company stock. You can visit DreamTemplate.com to learn more.

Hostmonster offers only one hosting plan where all features (including advance e-commerce features, Ruby on Rail, Spam Protection) are included. The hosting company had recently change their hosting price where users get unlimited hosting capacity with just $5.95/mo.

Review Hostmonster hosting package

Wonder what’s in Hostmonster hosting package?

Features	Details
Disk Storage	Unlimited
Site Bandwidth	Unlimited
Free Domain	Yes, lifetime!
Addon Domains	Unlimited
POP3/POP3 Email	Unlimited
.Override .htaccess	Yes
MySQL Databases	100
PostgreSQL Databases	100
Custom Cronjobs	Yes
Spam Assassin Protection	Yes
Fantastico Script Support	Yes
Special Promotion	Cheaper monthly hosting cost, free $50 Yahoo Advertising credit, and $50 Google Adwords credit
Get HostMonster Promotion Now: $6.95 $5.95/mo!

For your convenience, here’re the highlights of Hostmonster hosting plan. If you would like to order them with the promotion price, click here to visit Hostmonster homepage.

As mentioned earlier, there are two script library available with Hostmonster services – Fantastico and SimpleScripts. While Fantastico is the better known automated script installer; SimpleScript turned out to be my favorite (just recently) as the installer works extremely simple and fast.

Details on Hostmonster SimpleScripts

As a followup post on my previous SimpleScript related entry, here’s the full list of scripts available in Hostmonster SimpleScripts Library.

With the help of SimpleScripts, installation of all these software is now ultra-easy and you can get it done within seconds!

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.

As a rule of thumb in web maintenance, website should be back up regularly.

At HostMonster, the backup process is pretty quick-n-easy and will give you peace of mind. Follow these simple steps showed below and then keep all your web files in a safe place. In case of necessary, you might want to store your files in multiple locations.

Image guides for website backup at HostMonster

First, look for the backup button at HostMonster control panel.

Select daily for your backups downloads.

Click ‘Save’ at the prompt out to download all your web files to your local computer.

Select the desired directory you wish to store the web files and press the ‘Save’ button.

Click ‘Close’ whenever the download is completed.

And there, your website backup is successful.

Kinda dummy guide huh? (graphic source from: HostMonster)