Features & Pricing

Appealing to bloggers and owners of other "niche" types of sites heavy on user-interactivity and dynamic content, HostUpon offers several specific types of hosting, including:

Be aware that HostUpon does not offer parked domains, while most of the other web hosts reviewed on this site do. However, HostUpon does offer unlimited add-on domains, unlimited FTP accounts, and anonymous FTP support.

And if your web business is database heavy, you'll appreciate the unlimited MySQL databases that come free with service too.

As for email, HostUpon offers unlimited POP3 accounts but no IMAP accounts. However, HostUpon is one of the only web hosts reviewed on this site to offer Virus Scanning, and it offer a SMTP server (which only about half the web hosts reviewed on this site offer).

Control Panel

cPanel is the web management control panel that all others model themselves upon, and is the control panel that HostUpon has chosen to provide with all of its web hosting accounts. And once you see it, it's very clear why. Let's start with the sidebar, a comprehensive collection of all the real-time website statistics that you need to optimize your site's performance. Beside it, in the cPanel main menu, is a completely customizable interface of functions from software and security to email management to analysis and log files, each of which are logically categorized and indicated by large, colorful, icon-based buttons. Shift these categories around as you wish to create a cPanel home screen that best suits your uses. Included with cPanel is an array of free programming scripts for adding all sorts of dynamic content and user-interactivity to your site, including the entire Fantastico suite of tools, again - for free. That includes the SohoLaunch site builder, should you desire an alternative to the RVSiteBuilder that's part of the cPanel main menu.