About HostRocket
HostRocket was founded in 1999 as a privately owned hosting provider. The company’s headquarters are located in Cliffton Park, New York. Appropriately dubbed the Tech Valley, this area is home to some of the biggest enterprises in the United States. HostRocket has built a strong following over the years and now owns hundreds of servers and hosts more than 50,000 top-level websites. This includes e-commerce websites, collocation and application hosting. In their datacenters, HostRocket has salaried and dedicated technicians working 24/7 to ensure the health of their servers.
Owners of the company pride themselves on the fact that they have never accepted outside investments and that the company has been running profitably and free of debt. Their belief is that their excellent service over the years is responsible for this kind of success.
Plans and Features
HostRocket’s shared hosting plan starts at a rate of only $4.95 per month. With this plan, you get 100,000 MB of storage space and an almost unsurpassed bandwidth of unlimited volume. You’re allowed to host up to 10 websites in your account; plus, this limit is stepped up by one website every month. You may also create unlimited subdomains while having 10 external domains pointing to your main domain. Email addresses and vacation auto-responders are unlimited; MySql databases are limited to 10 per account.
One feature you should find beneficial is the dizzying collection of preinstalled scripts you’re offered for free. These include Wordpress, b2evolution, Drupal, Mambo, phpNuke, OSTicket, php support tickets, OSCommerce, phpWiki and phpbb2 just to highlight a small fraction of what’s available to you.
If you’re into programming you’ll find plenty of room for regular scripting languages like PHP, PERL, Python, CGI-BIN and Zend Optimizer. You can also avail absolutely free installation of PERL modules. Your website’s statistics can be tracked daily through the preinstalled copy of Webalizer.
Their plans are backed by a 30-day money back guarantee.
Hosting Environment
The hosting environment on HostRocket is a friendly version of the standard cPanel software. You can view a demo here: http://www.hostrocket.com/cpdemo.html. From the control panel, you can configure account options, email accounts, manage your files, view traffic statistics, handle databases etc.
Your MySql databases can be easily created and managed within the MySql Databases manager from your control panel. For remote access to your databases, you can configure them to from the database manager. If you prefer a graphic interface, HostRocket offers PhpMyAdmin in your control panel from whence direct administration of databases can be done.
Joomla
HostRocket recognizes and supports various Content Management Systems includes Joomla. For this purpose, Fantastico Deluxe has been made available to you which you can find within the software/services section of your control panel. This script will install Joomla for you in a matter of minutes.
Tech Support
Very few hosts in business provide 24/7 technical support, and HostRocket is one of them. You have the option of emailing them, calling them up through their 24 hour hotline, or submitting a support ticket.
They also have archived forums on their website where hundreds of their customers actively participate and discuss their issues. You can also take advantage of their extensive FAQ library which has its own dedicated site at http://www.rocketsupport.com.
Conclusion
HostRocket, being a privately owned enterprise, takes its customers very seriously. They don’t sell out to hungry investors and you can be sure that the company is built to last. The features they provide are mouth-watering and their pricing is nothing less impressive. If you should ever run into any technical problems at all, you can always turn to their dedicated support staff and have it worked out.
So, no matter what type of website you’re planning to host, HostRocket will prove an excellent choice, which if made, you won’t regret.
HostRocket has "Registered Globals" Turned On
Not sure if "register_globals" is on in every Host Rocket server. It was turned on in the server that Joomla Hosting Reviews tests. This is a security problem. There is an easy fix. In the top level directory of your hosted domains adjust the .htaccess file.
add the following line to your /public_html/.htaccess file:
php_flag register_globals off
Log into the Administrator backend interface and confirm that register_globals is turned off.
This is a very easy fix to a big security problem. Hope it Helps!
