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 customers
access 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 Hostgator 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.
