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Despite its imposing name, HostMonster isn’t particularly monstrous in any way. In fact, it’s a good, albeit unremarkable, web hosting service that offers the core tools you need to build personal or small business sites. HostMonster has respectable shared, dedicated, and virtual private server (VPS) options, but its basic features keep it from matching the exemplary functionality of Editors’ Choice winners DreamHost, HostGator, and Hostwinds.

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Shared Hosting

If you don’t want to spend too much money on web hosting, shared hosting is the way to go. With this most basic hosting tier, your website lives on a server with other websites. In other words, the sites share a single server’s cost and resources. As a result, shared web hosting is cheap web hosting. Shared…

Many security companies offer a free antivirus; Avast is unusual in offering a free security suite, Avast One Basic. Upgrading to Avast One Gold gets you enhancements in Protection, Privacy, and Performance at a hefty price. Avast One Silver, reviewed here, costs a good bit less than the Gold edition and enhances Protection, Privacy, or Performance—just one of the three. The best thing you can get from Silver’s partial protection is VPN access without limits. Other than that, it’s not much better than the free edition. Before choosing Avast One Silver, consider Bitdefender Internet Security for an entry-level suite or Norton 360 Deluxe for a cross-platform suite. Bitdefender costs a bit more than Avast and Norton is a bit more than that, but both offer a complete set of suite…

This Avast VPN review will show you that while Avast SecureLine VPN isn’t one of Forbes Advisor’s best VPN services, it offers features that will grant you true privacy and limitless access to desired content. Avast SecureLine VPN uses military-grade 256-bit AES encryption, OpenVPN and OpenSSL to encrypt all over-the-internet data exchange to give users optimum privacy protection.

Also, Avast VPN adopts an easy-to-find transparency policy to help you understand how your data is captured, stored and used when using the VPN software. Avast VPN software allows you to stream or download large files without compromising privacy and security on up to ten devices, including Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. You’ll thus complete projects in your household and office without stress,…

PureVPN’s features roughly line up with the expected features we look for in a VPN, such as split tunnelling, a kill switch and DNS protection. These features all mostly work as we would want them to for a top VPN, though there were a couple of things we saw that were worth noting.

DNS Protection Measures

PureVPN’s DNS protection measures function well enough. We ran multiple tests, such as ones provided by dnsleaktest.com, and PureVPN performed well.

Dedicated IP

PureVPN offers Dedicated IP as an add-on. The pricing of this add-on depends on the length of your plan. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to test the efficacy of this feature during our review.

On top of Dedicated IP, PureVPN offers Dedicated Server and Business VPN add-ons at a higher cost. They all perform…

When you upgrade from antivirus to a full security suite, you expect such enhancements as a firewall, ransomware protection, and more. With Quick Heal Internet Security, ransomware and firewall protection are already present at the antivirus level. Upgrading gets you email and spam protection, parental control, safe banking, and other niceties. The additions are useful, but the core protection they are built on is just decent. For an entry-level suite with a full contingent of quality features, we recommend Editors’ Choice winner Bitdefender Internet Security.

How Much Does Quick Heal Internet Security Cost?

The price of a single-device license for an entry-level security suite ranges from about $40 to about $60 per year, with K7 Total Security being an outlier at $27. G Data Internet…