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Features
Disk Space Unlimited
Bandwidth Unlimited
Domains Unlimited
Emails Unlimited
Control Panel Cpanel
MySQL Unlimited
eCommerce Yes
Multimedia Yes
Softwares Yes
Web Builder Yes
Windows Yes
Web Statistic AW Stats & Webalizer
Monthly Price
1 Mth $9.95
3 Mth $9.95
6 Mth $9.95
12 Mth $9.95
24 Mth $8.95
35 Mth $7.95
Min Contract 1 Mth
Payment Options
Credit Card Yes
Check -
Paypal Yes
Money-Back 45 day




 

Hostgator Review

Overall Rating:
What's Special: Monthly Payment
Recommended Plan: Baby Plan

I became a Hostgator's customer around the later part of 2006. I am firm believer of spreading my risk around and not to be over-reliant on any one web hosting company. In fact, I love their fantastic offering so much so that I upgraded my basic Baby plan to become a reseller of Hostgator. I did so because the nature of my work requires me to host a few customers' sites. Hostgator is probably one of the few companies which allow you to make monthly payment where most require an upfront payment of 3-12 months. Take a look at the chart below, a good sign that customer base is on the rising trend.

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Company Background
Houston, Texas-based hosting provider has an impressive track record of hosting over 1.3 million websites since 2002. Hostgator might seem pricey compared to the rest of our recommended companies, but we reckon the strength of their plan really lies in the fact that they won't tie you down with any yearly contract. Payments are collected on a monthly basis.

Hostgator offers 3 services namely shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers. The Baby Plan I recommend falls under the shared hosting category. It is ideal for those hosting many websites and yet does not want to be bogged down by the technical challenge that comes with reseller hosting and dedicated servers.

Reseller hosting as the name suggest allows you to resell the webhosting space to your own customers or friends. This plan is more suitable for those who are web developers, web designers and intends to set up a web hosting business. It's technically more challenging to set up a reseller hosting account thus I do not recommend if all you want to do is just host your own sites. Other the hand, I was so please with our overall experience hosting with Hostgator that I decided to upgrade my own package to a reseller plan.

Dedicated Server is reserved for those who wants to manage their own web server and is intended for those who are operating very large scale website and needs a much higher level of scalability in terms of their hosting requirements.

Reliable Uptime & Fast Connectivity
All their 3 network/data centers are located in Dallas, TX. Connectivity is also not an issue as their backbone carriers are provided by companies such as Global Crossing, UUNET, AT&T etc.
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Hostgator's Cpanel is somewhat similar to Bluehost's offering. Checkout their virtual Cpanel to better appreciate what you are will be getting when you host with Hostgator.

Our Verdict
Setting up of your hosting account is almost immediate. But you might be asked to call in to verify your account. If your demand for diskspace is not high, go for its Hatchling plan instead. Take note however that this plan does not come equip with a Site Builder and the uptime guarantee is only 99.5% instead of the normal 99.9% but honsetly it's not by sheer luck that one gets to host over 600k websites.

Dislikes
None whatsoever.

Likes
We also like the fact we are able to host unlimited websites on just one account. Minimum contract is just 1 month instead of the usual minimum 3 months to 1 year contract imposed by other companies.

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