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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Brandon, and I host a lot of web sites. Like many other internet marketers or web developers, price and service was an issue when I started my search. I ended up with a company that had a lot of down time, for a high price. I don’t want to name any names, but it starts with a J and ends with an iffyNet.net.

Oh they weren’t so bad, when my sites were actually running. And the price seemed reasonable, to a first time web monkey like myself, who hadn’t done that much research. So i hobbled along, patiently riding out the downtimes, and eventually started wondering how much more I could take.

So I built my sites, one at a time, making a little money on the Net. Cool! I’d build a few pages here and there, and… wait my site is down again. WHAT? I was starting to get really frustrated.

So I began my search for new service, that was similar with a cPanel and easy to set up PHP/MySQL databases and what not. I found Mosso.com. Their tagline? “For people who build websites”. Well, that’s me! So i signed up, swallowing hard when i found out they charge 3 times as much as my $35 a month crappy service charged. WOW. But, I was a serious web monkey and I knew that “you get what you pay for”. So i plopped down the 100 bucks and tested out Mosso.

Turns out, Mosso is great. Lots of room, backed up servers, blah blah blah. And then i tried to create a php database and use some htaccess rules to create a site. Red Flag! Mosso’s servers couldn’t handle any php i threw at them, or any htaccess rewrites, at all. Huh? So i went back to my crappy service and begged their forgiveness, and they let me stay.

But i wasn’t satisfied. So I googled “best web hosting” or something like that. Turns out, people are selling that kind of thing! HA! And i started to sift through the piles of ads and sites claiming to be the best. I said a little prayer and dove into the maddening onslaught of PPC ads and banners and… I FOUND IT.

I guess you could compare it to sorting through a bunch of unopened clams or oysters or whichever sea creature has pearls inside them. There they all were, sitting there looking all the same. And I just stuck my hand in the pile of web hosting companies, and pulled out a very ordinary looking clam.

It took some setting up (aka some prying to get the clam open), but not much. In fact, it opened rather easily. And when I looked inside, there was a pearl the size of my fist, shiny and brilliant and beautiful to behold. It was HostMonster.

I was a little puzzled at first, by the price. It was cheap. So i thought, hey you get what you pay for, but i was getting crapola in comparison with my old hosting! I couldn’t believe it. HostMonster had many things I wanted, and some I didn’t even know i did!

To be continued…

So when i found HostMonster.com, I noticed something different on their homepage. It wasn’t different from most large companies, in that they all pretty much now have a link to chat live with a support specialist. The difference with HostMonster’s chat button is that it’s HUGE and right there in your face, screaming: CHAT WITH US!

So, I did. And they answered. And then i asked more questions, and they answered. And then about 3 dozen times after that, and they were ALWAYS ONLINE! A few weeks after signing up, I click the chat button and expected to get the email form, cause it was 2 AM! But they answered and we chatted and resolved my question in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

Wow. I mean, that is just cool. Like iPhone cool.

So they answered my questions and I signed up with HostMonster. It was really easy, i could create a new domain name account, or transfer my existing one. They even have small fees for setting up SSL certificates Lightning Fast for you, no messing with that CSR crapola and what not, they did it all for me! Need a static IP address? Boom! Done.

What more could i possibly want?

How about 23 add-on sites with no extra charge to my account (unlimited add-on domains!)? And 300 GB of space? Oh, did i mention 3,000 Gigs of Transfer bandwidth a month? How about all this other crap:

SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL
Front Page Extensions
Free Domain Forever
Free Site Builder
Best Support in the Industry

Yeah the last one, it’s actually true. I’ve had HostMonster since about March of 2007, and my sites have NEVER BEEN DOWN. Not even a hiccup. Or a burp. I still can’t believe how awesome these guys are!

So of course, i refer all my friends, and I give my clients the hosting they deserve: HostMonster.com.

More to come…

Have you ever wondered why some companies don’t answer the phone, even though they place their 800 number at the top of their site? I wondered the same thing. And then I signed up with HostMonster and got a Totally Different experience. They answered the phone! Nice. They’re not one of these “please fill out our email form and we’ll make you stand in this virtual line and might even possibly get back to you” companies. They answer the phone, they answer live chat support requests, they just ACTUALLY support you.

I created a site for a client, and it started getting slow, due to a bloated database. Really bloated. Like 3000 products bloated. So, I contacted HostMonster, this time at 9pm. And they picked up the phone! I asked my HostMonster service dude, “What’s up with my site?”

And he carefully and quickly decided that I did NOT need an upgrade to my system (they didn’t want more of my money!) and that I just needed to optimize my site and my database to help it run smoother. They walked me through the steps and showed me what to do, and were as helpful and nice as… well… anything helpful and nice.

HostMonster has great support! You can chat, call and get answers from them, which is amazingly cool. In this last case just described, I was pleased that they took the time to find the answer to the problem, not just swipe my credit card again and yell NEXT!

Look into web hosting with HostMonster, today.