This hostninereview.org is my personal hostnine review blog, that is hosted with hostnine.com (Host Nine) since four months ago. Four months ago, i started to review hostnine hosting. I sign up H9 with discounted price of 50% off, with the use of hostnine coupon ‘H9′. The coupon code is still valid, and you can get the same discount if use this coupon.
The hostnine sign up process is smooth and i got the hosting account instantly. FTP uploading files to server is no trouble at all. And later i setup this hostnine review blog at hostnine server. The hostnine cpanel is very easy to use, and have all the required features.
I found out that the hostnine support team is very helpful, and i always get instant reply from their support team. Not to mention, the hostnine forums and community is a good place to ask for help as well. Their forum moderator is extremely helpful as well. Good job from them.
Last month i posted about the host 9 uptime and server speed test report. If you haven’t take a look, spend some time and read through it. Hostnine shared hosting server uptime is increadible, and its given me 100% uptime for august 2007.
This H9 shared hosting plan also allow me to host multiple websites, unlmited domain hosting. And i having few unique websites setup in this single hostnine account. Its very simple, just use the cpanel and go to Addon Domain section, and add the new website that you wan to be hosted with hostnine.
You can sign up hostnine hosting using coupon ‘H9′, and get 50% discount as well.
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This is a new column about hostnine uptime monthly reports. And at here, i will post lots of uptime score or rating for hostnine shared hosting. As this hostnine blog is actually hosted with hostnine, so i can get a real uptime statistic from it. I using the serviceuptime.com uptime monitoring services, a premium paid services.
This hostnine server will be constantly monitored and uptime check interval of 30 minutes. Meaning that every 30 minutes, the server will be check for availability, speed, uptime, downtime or failure. If anything goes down, i will receive email notification and took a look into it. And hopefully the hostnine technical support can get it fixed.
Here if the hostnine uptime/downtime stat for the August 2007. And its a shocking 100% uptime so far. Remarkable.
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Blog is a online web journal. This website that you are reading now is a blog as well. And i had chosen wordpress as the blog script for this hostnine review blog. Basically you can setup you blog very easily. All you need to do is find the open source blog script like: b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress. And get it setup at hostnine shared hosting server.
How to install blog? Its too simple. Login to hostnine cpanel, scroll the way down to fantastico. At fantastico, at the left columns, look for the blogs category and you will find these: b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress. Choose the script that you want to setup. I would highly recommend wordpress blog, as its my all time favourite. Fantastico will guide you through the remaining of installation. Simple as that.
As long the blog script is running in php and using mysql database. It can be setup at hostnine hosting server. Beside using fantastico to do the setup, you can manually setup the site as well. By uploading the wordpress script to server, create the mysql database, assign new user to database, and proceed with the wordpress installation. Simple as 1-2-3.
You can sign up hostnine with 50% using the hostnine coupon : H9
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Its now the third month i run this hostnine review blog. Thist hostnine review blog that you are reading now is also hosted with hostnine.com itself. I sign up their shared hosting plan with 50% discount with the use of hostnine coupon code ‘H9′. You can get the same discount, just make sure you act fast to grab this opportunity.
Not only using their hosting services, i also active in hostnine forums and community discussion. I am quit new they, but so far the experience is just nice. Hostnine forums is run by hostnine admin and few of their staffs. And its the hostnine official forum site, you can view it at http://forums.hostnine.com
Can say that its a medium size forums with very good moderation work. And to hightlight here that the community is very helpful and helping each others. So far, i posted at the forum 3-4 times asking for helps. And my forum thread being answered in timely manners.
Lately i posted a thread asking about hostnine affiliates program payout. And there is currently a hostnine forum admin helping me on this. Hopefully it will get solved soon.
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Hostnine hosting is a very good hosting. I using it, and i really happy with it. You can use this review blog as a sample websites hosted with hostnine.com hosting. Its a very good and fast and reliable hosting provider.
For a limited time, and its still valid now. You can sign up hostnine hosting with 50% off from your first payment. I sing up this hostnine and receive the instant discount from the total payment. Here is what it look like when i signup hostnine.
During sign up process, and after select domain name. At choose hosting service, you can enter the coupon code “H9″.. and this will give you instantly a 50% off from your total bill. I register the standard hosting plan and should be costing me $83.40.
But with this hostnine coupons, i received a rebate of 50%. Thus the balance i need to pay is only $41.70 only. Refer above screen shot to belief.
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Hostnine is a very generous hosting company, and its offering unlimited ftp account on all shared hosting plan. Other than that are unlimited email account, unlimited mysql database, unlimited addon domain hosting as well.
From host9 cpanel, you can create or add new ftp account. Assign password to each account, and set directory root that the user can gain access to. Its the control that you limiting the browsing through the entire site. With cpanel control panel, you only have one cpanel account. There is no way to create multiple cpanel account user login. What you can have is multiple ftp accounts, each for a person. And limiting their directory root.
I created a ftp account for testing it out. It work just fine. Refer screenshot below for the add ftp accounts:
When you need to upload files to server, you will need to use an ftp account. Probably using ftp clients like cuteftp, smartftp or ws_ftp or filezilla to make ftp connection to server. And thus upload these files. Login through the ftp account you just added.
Alternatively you can use the file manager to do the file uploading. This file manager is part of cpanel tools. Its located next to the ftp manager.
Once you uploaded all your websites files to public_html folder, your website will be available online.
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Webmail is where you using your web browser to go online and check on your email account, check emails, reply emails or manage your contact lists. You will not require email client like outlook express etc, although you can connect it to hostnine mail server and download the emails. Alternatively you can use the webmail to check your email online conveniently.
Hostnine webmail, there are 3 webmail clients provider. Horde, squirrelmail and roundcude. Usually in other hosting provider, there will be usually two webmail, either squirrelmail or roundcude is missing. But at hostnine hosting, all three are here. Personally i most prefer horde, as it looks better. I don’t like ugly design. 
You can go to cpanel to login to your webmail. Or you can visit your domain name follow by /webmail. Here is how i login to my webmail http://www.hostninereview.org/webmail .. this will bring me to webmail for hostninereview.org . Enter the email account name and password and i will goes into the email account. Simple as that.
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Its a standard in all hostnine shared hosting plan to have unlimited email accounts. You can create as many pop3 email accounts, email forwarding, and also create as many mailing lists. Each email account will have its own webmail, boxtrapper, and autoresponder. Its supported IMAP and SMTP as well. Its a total comple email solutions, with nothing missing. All you need is here with hostnine.com hosting.
So far i only created one email account for my website … i am not a heavy user thought. You can create as many email account you like. And there is tones of email features to use. To create or add new email account, you have to login to cpanel to do this. My current cpanel stat shows this:
| Email Accounts |
1 / unlimited |
| Email Forwarders |
0 |
| Auto-responders |
0 |
| Mailing Lists |
0 / unlimited |
| Email Filters |
0 |
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Hostnine shared hosting plan does allow unlimited domains. Unlimited domains mean that you can host as many individual websites in the single hostnine account. You will need to sign up hostnine standard plan in order to get this. This hostnine review blog is hosted with hostnine and using the standard plan.
From cpanel main page, you can see following:
| Subdomains |
1 / unlimited |
| Parked Domains |
0 / unlimited |
| Addon Domains |
1 / unlimited |
To add new website/domain to hostnine account. First login to hostnine cpanel x, and go to “addon domains”. Here is where you add and remove websites. If you want to add new website name “mynewwebsite.com”.. then just enter it to the new domain field. Refer to screen below:
As you can see at above, i had another website added. Once you added the new site, make sure you change the domain nameserver, so that it point to hostnine nameserver. Other than that, you also can redirect domain to url.
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Hostnine hosting is a very good hosting provider. Many of us know it. Hostnine also offering affiliate program, and rewarding some sales commission to those referred a sales to hostnine.com. Its the fact that, the payout is start from $25 dollars only, and could be increase as sales increased.
Had come across some discussion at forums, where users are requesting for hostnine rebates money. And the amount requested are at $50. Basically, no rebate company will able to give you back $50, as in bottomline, hostnine only paid $25. Absolutely no hosting rebate company willing to take out extra $25 to rewarding you.
Be smart! Be smart that when there is hosting rebate company offering you large cash back, be alert that it will be a fake promise. And you will only contribute to his self profit. Absolutely there shall be no payout more than the sales commission from hostnine.com
If you really need to look for rebates. Go to hostnine website, register a new account using coupon code ‘H9′. This coupon is valid at the moment, and entitle for 50% off from total first time payment. If you ordered $100, a $50 will be discounted off. Do not miss out this opportunity.
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