Host Monster offers a variety of features at a very low price: $5.95 a month.

Go to the Host Monster website.

Host Monster has one very strong selling point: up-time. 99.9% uptime, actually. Yes, I know, many companies claim the 99.9% uptime, but Host Monster can back up the claim. Ultimately, it is what the customers think that matters most, and the customers are saying that Host Monster has the least downtime in the industry.

Host Monster also has the e-commerce options that small businesses want and need. If you want it, they’ve got it. Let’s look at the list of features.

  • OS Commerce Shopping Cart
  • Agora Shopping Cart
  • Password Protected Directories
  • Open PGP/GPG Encryption
  • SSL Secure Server

They even have FREE generated certificates, which will encrypt internet traffic in secure areas of your website (and give your address bar the lock icon, which so many shoppers want to see for before whipping out their credit card).

Disk storage is a whopping 600 GB! For bandwidth Host Monster gives you an incredible 6000 GB per month (I wonder what the fascination with the number “6″ is).

For management, they use cPanel, just like many of its competitors, which has a clean look and is easy to use. They also offer free search engine submission, but I believe that you are better off doing that sort of thing yourself (but, that is a another story).

In conclusion, I believe that Host Monster could the best around if they offered a dedicated solution, or at least a Virtual Private Server solution.

The only way that you can know if a host is right for you is to try it yourself. Since all of the hosts on this list offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, you have nothing to lose. Go to the Host Monster home page, open an account, and try it for yourself.