Web Hosting: hostgator review

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Founded in 2002, Hostgator has zoomed up in the market with its quality service and attractive marketing. It is a privately owned hosting company which was launched when webhosting industry was already at its peak. Although, the claims made by them is debateable, but officially Hostgator claims to have won 1,000,000 website hosting deals and have about 20,000 reseller customers. Dealing with this company always gives you the feel that you are in safe hands. Check out the complete hostgator review:

Hostgator Overall rating

Hostgator Inc.
Website: http://www.hostgator.com

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Support	:
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Hosting Cost	: $7.95/mo
Overall Rating	: A+ *Recommended

Whats inside Hostgator Service?

BabyGator	Price
12 months plan	$9.95/mo
24 months plan	$8.95/mo
36 months plan	$7.95/mo

Hosting Features	Specs
Disk Space	Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth	Unlimited
Free Domain Name	No
Free Site Builder	Yes
CGI-BIN	Yes
SSI	Yes
Frontpage Extensions	Yes
FTP Access	Yes

Email Features	Details
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Forwarders	Yes
Auto Responders	Yes
Web-Based Email	Yes

eCommerce Features	Details
Agora Shopping Cart	Yes
osCommerce	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes
Cube Cart	Yes
Private SSL	Yes

Software/Plugin	Details
Perl 5	Yes
PHP 5	Yes
mySQL Databases	Unlimited
Ruby/Ruby on Rails	Yes
Java script/DHTML	Yes
Fantastico	Yes
Message Forum (PHPBB & more)	Yes
Guest Books	Yes
Image Galleries	Yes

Payment Method	Details
Credit Card	Yes
PayPal	Yes

Policy	Details
Full Refund	45 days

I have personally hosted several websites at Hostgator for many years now and i still run many on it. It also happens to be an award winning web hosting company, which topped the Inc 5000 Awards held in Texas, USA. Essentially its the quality service and prompt customer service that makes it stand out in the market.

With an amazing marketing strategy, they have managed to reach the top of the competition in the webhosting segment industry.

Without a second thought, i can say that Hostgator is one of the best hosting companies you can ever find and it definitely comes among the top choice. It achieved this position mainly due to the A++ reliability, A++ Tech resources, Pretty descent pricing, and above all, awesome customer support. It also happens to be environmental friendly hosting company.

Currently, I advice everyone to go for this web hosting service. I speak out of exprience with several other hosting services.

Sever Uptime? My exprience says 100% uptime!

Its very hard to find a hosting service that keeps its servers up 100% of the times. In these several years, i have never seen a single instance where the servers went down or were closed down for maintainence. Simply Never!

Although, saying they have 100% uptime would be in appropriate (though i had 100% uptime exprience with them) because no tech service provider can garauntee a 100% perfect service, it would be fair to say that they have 99.99% uptime (leaving out few hiccups once in a blue moon). To add upto this, Hostgator now has its own Data center which is another good news!

Another point to be noted, though other companies might also provide it, is that with every package at Hostgator, you get the option of 45-day money back guarantee. Brent, the CEO and founder of Hostgator himself takes special interest in gauranting this service. This shows that this company has a very professional and responsbile management.

Endless options with Unlimited offers

Hostgator now offers ~~300GB of disk storage and 3,000GB bandwidth~~ unlimited bandwidth and disk storage!. And to add to that, you get unlimited domain hosting too. To cut things short, this means you can host all your websites on one hosting account itself!

Expand your Business with Unlimited MySQL and POP3 email account

This option is hardly seen in web hosting companies. But, Hostgator goes ahead in providing the facility of unlimited MySQL databases. Yeah, you heard it right. It’s unlimited MySQL databases. This means you can expand your web applications and services as much as you want.

Eco Friendly

Recently, Hostgator turned green by powering and cooling their server using wind power, thus protecting the environment.

Hostgator Customer Reviews

Always keep the Unlimited options open! First of all, thanks to the Hostgator team who answered all of my pre-sale questions and explaining me the differences between Dedicated IP and Random IP. I would also thank Brent for giving the eNom domain account and for the WHMCS License, which can be rarely found!
I rate HostGator a 9.9/10! That 0.1% is just the exceptional human error margin which is pretty low compared to other humans!

I am sure in few years, you will be THE BEST! – Akawebmaster @ jimmy 30, 2009.

Simply the best hosting company out there! I never have to troubleshoot with them because i never have any problem! That itself speaks a lot about their quality service.
After spending pleasant years on a Standard Dedi from HostGator I am now moving to an Elite Dedi ….. and wow what a spec it’s got. HG rules!” – jacos Carter @ www.Carsena-Tech.net.

Hostgator – 10/10 “It’s been about 2 years since DumbShoppers hosted at Hostgator and I hardly have any chance to communicate with HG staffs at the customer support section coz there’s no problem with the hosting at all! Hostgator is definitely my recommendation to friends and family.” – Teddy Low @ www.DumbShoppers.com.

So what can we Conclude?

Some of the hosting plans offered by HostGator might be a dollar more than other plans provided by other hosting companies. But trust me, you get what you are paying for. A simply awesome service, from a professional and dedicated Team.

Hostgator is highly recommended – especially if you are looking for a reliable web host or a reseller hosting account.

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