HostMonster Review – Reviews and Coupons of Host Monster Web Hosting

Hostmonster hosting company support SSL certificates. SSL certificates allow secure and encrypted connection between the client (the user who access the website) and the web server (site). This is very important for online stores, banks, or other sites where there is sensitive data (like passwords, credit cards etc), because standard http (hyper text transfer protocol) do not encrypts such data, SSL encrypts the data before sending it making it almost impossible for prying eyes to know what it is. The customer is more confident when he sees the seal and the https prefix in the browser. To order a certificate at Hostmonster, login in your control panel and from there access the SSL certificates tab. There you can order the certificate which will be:
* Instantly validated and Automatic Installed
* Domain Validated Certificate Issued by Comodo Web Security company
* Site Seal
* Trusted by all popular Browsers
* 128/256 bit encryption
* Unlimited Re-Issuance Policy

Please not that the certificate will be issued and valid only for your primary main domain name and it can not be used for addon domains, subdomains or parked domains.

Hostmonster Simple Scripts is cPanel tool for fast and simple installing of web applications. Web software included: wordpress, drupal, joomla, phpbb, b2evolution, mediawiki, moodle and lots of others. Simple scripts interface is not like Fantastico. Fantastico de luxe is integrated as cPanel tool and the interface is inside, while simplescripts tool is on their official site www.simplescripts.com. Don’t worry about securuty cause the connection is over SSL (secure sockets layer) (https://). The installer if configured can automatically create new database, set the folder or site where the script will be installed, setup random administrator password or password of your choice. Everything is setup by simplescripts including all files are placed, database tables setup and initial configuration is put. After the application is installed you can access it immediately and begin posting new content on your web site. Installation is very simple and consist of three easy step, it took around five minutes for the whole process. Overall it is excellent tool for installing apps.

When you want to open a websites you type in the domain name of the site in the browser and hit go. Once you click the button the browser ask the DNS nameservers for the IP address it should connect to and request the webpage in question.

With Hostmonster simple DNS zone editor you can do the following with your domain names:

Add/Delete an A Record:

A records maps IP address to subdomain or domain name. For example you may have example.example.com (replace example.com with your domain) to maps to other specific IP address rather then the IP address of your domain name.

Add/Delete a CNAME Record:

CNAME is short for canonical name record. This record creates an alias, allowing a querying server to continue the DNS lookup under the new name.

This is very useful tool because you it allows you to change the record directly inside your control panel.