Florida-based Hosting Matters was founded in 2000. It specializes in a range of hosting solutions, including shared hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated servers, and domain registration.
This provider’s English-language website has a simple design and is informative.
Features and Ease of Use
Hosting Matters’ three shared hosting plans — M250, B500, and Unmetered — vary in terms of disk space, bandwidth, add-on domains, email accounts, databases, FTP accounts, and other minor specifications. While the M250 and B500 plans provide limited storage and bandwidth, the Unmetered plan (as the name suggests) provides unlimited storage and bandwidth.
The following features are common across all plans:
- Daily backups
- InterWorx control panel
- Softaculous installer
- Cron job manager
- SSL support
- SSH access
As much as I prefer the more popular cPanel control panel, Hosting Matters offers the equally user-friendly InterWorx control panel that provides pretty much the same facilities for managing your website files, adding/removing email accounts, and much more besides.
InterWorx integrates the Softaculous installer that helps you install popular CMS and other applications with a single click, just as you would from a mobile phone’s app store. We’re talking about WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, Magento, and more.
All shared hosting plans support SSH access so you can control your hosting from anywhere in the world. You can also schedule Cron jobs to run periodically, to save you a lot of regular manual effort.
Pricing and Support
Hosting Matters’ prices fall slightly on the high side (compared with the U.S. market) for the features on offer. However, the Unmetered plan is a good value for money.
You can make payments through PayPal, credit/debit card, check, or money order. They offer various billing cycles from monthly to annual, with no apparent discount for the longer term. If you’re not satisfied with the host, you have the freedom to request a refund within the first 30 days thanks to their money-back guarantee.
Besides being able to contact this company’s customer support via email and support ticket, you can also reach out via Facebook. Unfortunately, I failed to secure a response via any of the support channels. If you have to resort to self-support, you will be pleased to see the very comprehensive knowledge base:
