Hostgator Review

Hostgator.com:

http://www.hostgator.com

Founded in 2002 as a small business, Hostgator is presently a major player in the reseller hosting market with more than 10,000 resellers as its customers. Hostgator provides both shared and dedicated hosting services. Unique feature and a definite advantage of Hostgator over its competitors is that Hostgator gives its customersaccess to SiteStudio, which is an easy to use web site designer.

What’s on Platter:

Apart from reseller hosting, Hostgator offers dedicated and shared hosting solutions. Price of reseller packages lies in the range of $24.95 to $99.95 a month. Their dedicated server packages cost from $174 to $374 per month. Their shared hosting package with 50GB space and 200GB Bandwidth comes with a price tag of $6.95 per month.

•Unlimited SQL databases is a special feature of Hostgator’s hosting plans. Free setup and a 30 days money back guarantee are the attractive features of Hostgator’s hosting packages. Also, as a help to its customers, Hostgator presents SpamAssasin software that assists in decreasing the amount of junk emails received.

•Hostgator offers 4 varieties of hosting plans, Hatchling (50GB space, 200GB Bandwidth at $6.95 per month), Baby (5GB space, 75GB bandwidth at 49.95 per month), Swamp (10GB space, 100GB bandwidth at $14.95 per month) and Semi dedicated (25GB space, 500GB Bandwidth and $74.95 per month).

Reliability:

Hostgator has its servers housed in The Planet located in Dallas Texas. The Planet spreads over 35,000
Sqft. with highly secure and safe systems. Multiple TXU electrical grids, efficient cooling systems and 48,000 volts of input power are the features of Hostgator

Servers housing.

Data center of Ho stgator is being continuously monitored by DataTrax software. Redundant Certified
Cisco Network with 10 backbone providers is another feature of Hostgator that makes it highly reliable.
Also Hostgator guarantees a 99.9% up time.

The Controls:

The industry standard control panel type Cpanel is the one that is offered by Hostgator. It is an easy to use control panel. In this about 39 scripts can be installed. It is helping around a million users to install many open-source along with Flash movies for ready to use tutorials. Hostgator gives you Fantastico,the popular auto installer for Cpanel servers once you buy a hosting package.

•Domain management, file management, Email management, disk usage, search engine submission, web statistics and system security are the main functions that are available in Hostgator’s Cpanel control panel.

•Webalizer, which runs along with web statistics function, helps you track your site and get information
about the origin of the visitors, the OS and the browsers they use, the page they land, their exiting page and so on.

Customer Support:

•Hostgator offers you 24X7 phone support through all the 365 days. Online chat, Fax and support forums are the other means of Hostgator’s customer support. The rich sets of Flashmovies that come bundled with Cpanel also provide technical support to the customers. What is so special about Hostgator customer support is that Hostgator does this with a personal touch that is so warm. Hostgator, in addition to being instantly responsive to the customer queries has the expertise to solve the problems of any kind.

•Within a few years Hostgator has reached a top place in this business because of its highly reliable service and an instant and yet personalized support.