HostMonster Review – Reviews and Coupons of Host Monster Web Hosting

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).

PhpMyAdmin is php software database management script for MySQL relational database system, a web interface for managing MySQL DB. It can create new databases (if permissions are granted for this), create/edit/delete tables, add/edit/delete fields fields, rows, manage users, execute SQL queries, importe/export data to csv (comma separated values), SQL queries, XML format and various other formats, so you can later restore the on another server, and much more. phpMyAdmin have large community of contributors and users and is available in 54 languages (at the time of writing this article). It is a must tool for every webmaster, because it simplifies the management of databases. The official website is http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ where you can also download the official distribution package, find documentation, themes and various help links. The latest version (at the time of writing this) is 3.2.5.

Hostmonster PhpMyAdmin Review

Hostmonster have cPanel control panel and phpmyadmin is integrated into it. You can access it directly via cPanel, but you can also install it manually if you prefer but you would not need to do this because it is already integrated and available for use.

Cron is scheduler in Linux and Unix like systems. It allows you to set events (actions, programs to be run) at specific time intervals like 1, 15, 30 or custom set intervals that can be in hours, days, months or years. You may use cron jobs to setup automatic tasks that you need like automatic cleaning of files (cache), backing up files, directories, databases too if it’s setup correctly, or other tasks. The cron settings are setup in special file called the crontab which on most linux system is located at /etc/crontab . For beginners it would be very difficult to manually set any type of cron job mainly because of the cron syntax which is difficult. Luckily Hostmonster cPanel control panel offers a cron job tool that simplifies the process of setting up cron jobs. You can either setup with a wizard (standard) or manually (advanced) if you are experienced linux user. You can setup an email to where the output of the cron will be sent. Setting up jobs at intervals less than 5 minutes is not recommended because it can take much resources depending on the task that is performed. I use cron jobs on my personal computer at home to schedule backups. Backups are important because you never know what may happen.

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