HostMonster Review

Fantastico de luxe is one of the features most web hosting providers offers. Fantastico is commercial addon to cPanel control panel that allows you to easily install popular open-source web applications: Wordpress (blogs), Drupal – Content Management system (CMS), Joomla – CMS, galleries, forums (phpbb, mybb), shopping carts like zencart or oscommerce and many other popular web scripts. Now it is the most popular one-click installer. When you install a script via fantastico everything is automatically setup so you can immediately begin using your website. Databases, tables, default settings, user name, passwords are automatically setup. Other than installation, any support is not provided by Fantastico for the scripts. Developers do not recommend installing via Fantastico De Luxe because the latest version of the software is not always available on this one-click installer. Manual installation may be time-consuming and hard for some people but you know that the latest version is installed with all bugs and features available. Hostmonster do not offer Fantastico to its customers but simplescripts. Simple scripts works pretty much the same way Fantastico does and supports many popular web applications. Installation of scripts is very simple.

Host Monster hosting company offers only one web hosting plan. This plan offers many features, some you might never need but it is always good know them. Almost any type of website can be hosted on Hostmonster account, including personal websites/blogs, corporate or social websites. The powerful Linux Apache MySQL PHP hosting platform gives you much flexibility. Linux operating system is fast, secure and stable system for  servers, because it is open-source, vulnerabilities are quickly discovered and fixed. Apache is the most popular open-source webserver. And MySQL a database system and PHP (web programming language) the most popular systems for creating websites with scripts like wordpress (blogs), drupal, joomla, galleries, phpbb (forums), shopping carts (zen cart, oscommerce etc) for ecommerce sites and others. You won’t run into problems like not enough space of bandwidth, because hostmonster offers unlimited space, bandwidth and you can host unlimited number of websites. You also get a free domain name with optional domain privacy, cpanel control panel to manage sites, FTP, cron jobs, shell access (ssh), site stats, perl, streaming audio/video and much much more. Click here for the complete list of features. Though many companies offer more hosting plans hostmonster offers everything in one hosting plan for the price of $6.95 monthly, $5.95 with the current promotion.

Drupal is popular free open-source content management system written in PHP (HyperText Preprocessor) distributed under the GNU General Public License . With Drupal you can make almost any type of website, whether it would be a blog, forum, social networking, news site, gallery, or a simple website. The standard version is drupal core which have many features like extension system which allows you to install modules which add new functions to drupal or upgrade existing ones. Theme system, with it you can easily change the look of your web site. A powerful user management system with user permissions. Admins can create, edit users or visitors can register themselves. E-mail validation must be done if required by admins. Other nice feautere is the ability to create custom content types and add custom fields. Other standard modules included in core are contacts, search and others. Check all the features on the official site : http://drupal.org. It is very popular CMS, many popular sites are powered by Drupal, corporate sites, political sites (e.g whitehouse.gov), fan sites (e.g michaeljackson.com) and many others. Drupal is my favorite CMS. Because it requires PHP to be installed and at least one of the supported database management systems(mysql, others supported too) you need to find good PHP Web Hosting company. Hostmonster is good choice for your next drupal host, because besides besides PHP and MySQL and many other features it also supports custom PHP.INI that allow you to change some options like register_globals to off (required for drupal to be installed).