Hostgator Review

Hostgator Review In Detail

	Trusted by more than 2,200,000 domain owners, HostGator is one of the current times top web hosting companies, that offers unlimited storage space, with unlimited monthly bandwidth, email, ftp, sub-domain., and also unlimited MySQL database. The company also offers a 24/7 support service, involving live chat support, email support and a toll free phone support. Featuring a rather standard website, with no extra bells and whistles, HostGator makes it very simple for its customers. The company, HostGator, has won many noteworthy awards, such as FindMyhost.com Editors' Choice Award, Web Host Directory #1 Reseller Hosting Award, and Web Host of the Year Award 2007 from top14webhosts.com, along with many others.
Company Introduction: Founded in 2002, HostGator is a privately owned web hosting company, created by Brent Oxley. Based in Houston, Texas, HoastGator uses the Planet data center in Dallas, Texas, USA. What was initially a small hosting company, with only three servers, has now grown into a world leading, yet an industry recognized provider, featuring above 7,000 servers under management. The company servers are dual Xeons with 4GB memory and IDE Raid hard drives. HostGator has a wide selection of dedicated servers and also feature shared and reseller offerings. Today, being among the world’s 10 largest web hosting companies, HostGator is highly regarded in the web hosting community. Hosting more than two million domains, HostGator HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world's Internet traffic. HostGator Plans: Hatchling – Linux platform; offers 350 GB space, with 3000 GB bandwidth; 1 domain; cost $6.95. Baby – Linux platform; offers 600 GB space, with 6000 GB bandwidth; unlimited domains; cost $9.95. Swamp – Linux platform; 1000 GB space, with unlimited bandwidth, and also unlimited domains; cost $14.95. Best Feature of HostGator.com: Excellent support and customer friendliness – The company features a friendly, and an efficient 24/7/365 toll free support. In addition, they have Ticket System, Knowledge base, tutorials etc. Also they have an active forum which helps in fixing most normal issues. Support tickets are fast, often response will be made in less couple of hours. If someone is not satisfied with the support, he/she could even get the president of HostGator, Brent Oxley, to personally look into the problem. Other Important Features: Using Cpanel, the web hosting company, HostGator, offers only Linux hosting, and a Fantastico script installer which installs most of the popular open source scripts with only few clicks. HostGator support PHP4 & 5, SSH, Python, Cron jobs, Ruby On Rails, and more. In addition, all the three packages (Hatchling, baby, and Swamp) include a sufficient amount POP3 accounts (20 for Hatchling and unlimited for others). HostGator provides consistent high uptime, and it has never been witnessed for the site being down for more than 10 minutes at a stretch. Thus, 99.9% uptime Guarantee is provided. All the three packages of Hostgator have a reasonable price, for the features and space/bandwidth provided by each. Also, more recently, Hostgator increased the space and bandwidth to unimaginable levels, while reducing the price of all plans, by introducing 24 and 34 month pre-payment options. Conclusion: Customers are generally satisfied with HoastGator, which is proven by their positive feedback. For many, the feature of paying monthly is the biggest plus of HostGator. The company’s overall security is also good. Many awards have also been won by this web host, and no big issues with the service have ever been reported. This company, with a standard website, has actually helped many to easily understand their service and benefit from it. We would recommend it for sure!
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