HostGator Hosting Review

HostGator offers shared and reseller as well as dedicated hosting services. All hosting plans are very affordable and offer customers a good deal for their money. Hosting plans are feature rich and include nice amounts of disk space and bandwidth. Their telephone support is available 24/7. HostGator also offers email and online chat support. At HostGator, customers can depend on reliable web hosting services. They offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee. HostGator utilizes dual Xeon servers. They also provide an excellent control panel for hosting clients.

Price and Cost Effectiveness

HostGator offers a variety of hosting plans that are very affordable. Hosting plans start out as low as $4.95 for the Hatchling Plan if paid yearly. This plan includes Unlimited disk space and Unlimited bandwidth. Other features include: MySQL databases, CGI, PHP,Perl, SSI and FrontPage to name a few. The hosting control panel for each package also offers customers 39 scripts. This hosting plan also includes 20 subdomains and 20 FTP accounts.

The Baby plan is only $7.95 for Unlimited space and Unlimited bandwidth. This plan also provides all the features included with the Hatchling Plan. In addition customers can host unlimited domain names and subdomains. The plan also includes unlimited FTP accounts. Their most expensive regular shared hosting plan is only $12.95 per month for the Business plan. With this plan, customers will receive Unlimited disk space and UNLIMITED bandwidth.


Every hosting plan provides customers a great deal for their money. They include generous amounts of disk space and bandwidth. Hosting packages are also feature and application rich. The Baby plan and Swamp plan also include the sitebuilder. Every hosting plan is backed by 24/7 customer support, a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee and an Uptime Guarantee.

Control Panel

HostGator provides hosting customers with an excellent control panel. Potential customers can use the control panel demo to learn a little more about this great benefit of hosting with HostGator. The control panel makes it easy for everyone to have complete control over their web hosting experience. This control panel is easy to use and also includes 39 different scripts that can be easily installed.

Reliability

Hosting services offered by HostGator are highly reliable. Websites are hosted on Dual Xeon Servers. Websites benefit from instant backups with these servers. The data center and equipment they utilize, allow HostGator’s customers to benefit from a highly reliable network and very little downtime. HostGator uses the Planet’s data center. This is a state-of-the-art facility with superior equipment. The data center is highly secure and has generators, cooling system and other features to ensure security, protection and performance. Hosting clients also benefit from a Certified Cisco Network. The network uses 10 quality backbone providers. Every hosting plan includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee because HostGator’s services are that reliable. You can read more about HostGator's Reliability at My HostGator Review which is one webmasters review of HostGator.

Customer Support

HostGator has a reputation for providing quality customer support. The provide telephone, email and live chat support to their clients. Telephone support is available 24/7 so that customers can rest assured HostGator is there when they are needed! A ticket system is also available when customers have a problem and need assistance. Their great customer support system and high quality hosting services results in a high level of customer satisfaction among clients. In my experience with HostGator, they provide top notch hosting services at very affordable prices. Their hosting services are very dependable. HostGator succeeds in providing the highest quality of customer support and the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Conclusion

Whether you are a an individual or business looking for secure and reliable hosting services at great prices, HostGator can provide hosting services to meet your needs. Their hosting services are reliable and their downtime is very minimal. In fact they offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee. They are an industry leader when it comes to providing superb customer support to their clients. Customers can reach customer support in a number of ways and they can contact customer support via telephone 24/7.

HostGator User Feedback 2

I have been with Hostgator for almost a year. All of my blogs and sites are hosted to them and they have never ever experienced any problem. I remember the day when I was hacked by an evil man, Hostgator, was able to help me restore everything in good condition. Kudos to Hostgator!

From: Manila, Philippines

HostGator User Feedback

Since I host many websites and develop most of them, I needed a host that had unlimited amounts of space, traffic, domain add-ons, databases and more. I found that with HostGtor. I currently have over 24 domains with them and it costs me under $100 per year! The price you cannot beat and I haven't had any issues when contacting customer or tech support. Definite host of the year in my book and now that I see they are a "GREEN" host, that makes me feel even better!

From: Wisconsin

HostGator.com Overview

Hostgator Bio

Hostgator, founded in 2002 is one of top shared hosting companies, ranking consistently among the best by most of the review sites. What makes hostgator stand out from the crowd is their excellent support and customer friendliness. If you are not satisfied with the support, you could even get hostgator president Brent Oxley to personally take a look at your problem.

Recently hostgator went green, probably making them the first main stream host to do so. They purchase renewable energy credits up to 130% of their total power consumption.

Hostgator Features Specs

Hostgator offers linux hosting only(even though they are expected to start windows hosting in the near future). All their packages come with all the features needed for a serious website. Baby and Swamp packages allow unlimited domains(add on), which makes a lot of sense if you have multiple websites. They use cPanel, which is the best control panel around. You get Fantastico script installer which will install most of the popular open source scripts with few clicks.

They support PHP4 & 5, SSH, Cron jobs, Python, Ruby On Rails etc. Also, all the packages include enough POP3 accounts(20 for Hatchling and unlimited for others).

Performance Report

Hostgator host their sites on top-of-the-line Dual Xeon servers in their data centers (thePlanet) at Dallas. The data centers are well equipped and connects to 10 backbone providers. They offer 99.9% uptime Guarantee which is the industry standard.


Real Hostgator User Feedback

  • I switched to Hostgator after about two (2) years with a competitor of theirs. I don't want to say who the competitor is but I must say that Hostgator has them beat by 100% and for just half the cost. The support is second to none and thew down time is non existent. I would recommend the 'Baby' level of hosting at Hostgator to anyone!
  • I purchased recently 3 domain names and 3 hosting services of different providers. I must say Hostgator has been a nice discovery for me. I am really satisfied with their extremely good service, their fast responses for all my questions about the services they provide (and I have asked a lot of things and doubts). Hostgator, in my opinion and based on my experience, is a high quality choice.
  • After terrible experiences with other hosting companies I switched to HostGator a year ago and I couldn't be happier. Transferring my site was easy, email setup a breeze, and best of all there has been NO downtime! Customer service is polite and solved my billing issue promptly. Highly recommended.
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