SiteCloud VS Hostmonster
If you’re a newcomer to the web hosting world then you probably don’t know exactly what you are looking for or what types of hosting plans are available. You do know that you want quality and dependability in your chosen web host.
Both SiteCloud and Hostmonster fit that bill. SiteCloud touts to be the world’s #1 cloud hosting provider and indeed has a quality and affordable hosting plan. Hostmonster has been serving the web hosting industry since 1996 and has over 750,000 customers. Their brand isn’t just a clever name – they dominate the web hosting world with their simple yet feature-packed plan.
We take a closer look at each of these quality hosts and let you know what we think. Read our recommendation below.
Pricing
Pricing for the SiteCloud plan is just $4.95 per month. Considering that typical cloud hosting plans are more than $30 per month this is a true bargain for anyone looking to get into cloud hosting.
Hostmonster also has a single hosting plan available for just $5.95.
Products and Services
SiteCloud offers its product much like a shared hosting. They offer extra services like a free domain registration for life, marketing credits, free site migration, and a free website builder for clients. They provide the best control panel in the industry with cPanel, and their technology is a reliable load balanced clustered server architecture. The SiteCloud plan is backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee and 30 days money back. And if that isn’t enough, SiteCloud is “Green” through the purchase of wind energy certificates and an energy efficient carbon-neutral electricity policy.
Hostmonster also shows the extras with marketing credits to use with Google Adwords, a free site builder, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee for clients.
Web Hosting Features
Both plans from these companies are similar in scope with unlimited bandwidth, storage space, hosted domains, email accounts, and MySQL databases. Both offer support for the popular scripting languages.
The Hostmonster plan also offers plenty of support for third-party plugins like social networking, blogs, bulletin boards, and image galleries. Hostmonster also provides support for multimedia such as streaming audio/video, Real audio/video, Flash, Macromedia Shockwave, and MIDI. And online merchants will be pleased with a choice of free eCommerce shopping carts and use of SSL secured server.
Customer Service
Both of these dominant companies take customer support very seriously. But when it comes to availability Hostmonster takes the cake with 24 hr live support via phone, live chat, or email. SiteCloud offers 24 hour support via chat only, and phone contact business hours only.
While SiteCloud does offer an online knowledgebase, it is limited in scope and contains limited articles. The Hostmonster help center is extensive, user friendly, and contains articles, video tutorials, documentation, user forum, and even “get started” wizards.
Recommendations
SiteCloud does offer a reliable hosting plan for a great price, and provides a great list of extra products and services. However, when it comes down to being right for a general customer with little web experience, Hostmonster has the best features available and top-notch support. Our recommendation goes to Hostmonster.
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