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Hostgator Review

May 16, 2009 by Web Hosting Reviews  

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Hostgator

 

Price
4 / 5

Disk Space
4 / 5

Bandwidth
4.5 / 5

Performance
4.5 / 5

Reliability
4.5 / 5

Customer Support
5 / 5

Control Panel
5 / 5

Features
4.5 / 5

Overall Score
36 out of 40

MAIN FEATURES

3 hosting plans

Generous Disk Space & Bandwidth

Host unlimited websites on one hosting account

Highly Competitive Prices

Free Site Builder with every hosting plan

Outstanding 24x7x365 Customer Support

Insane Customer Dedication

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

45 Day Money Back Guarantee

No Contract/No Hidden Fees

Free / Instant setup

1&1 Hosting

REVIEW

It appears that the “Baby” plan gives the most value for money. It allows to have unlimited websites hosted, offers very generous space of 600GB and great bandwidth.

All Hostgator hosting plans come with Unlimited MySQL databases and Spam Assasin software that will block most spam from reaching your e-mail.

For users who are not that familiar with website development, Hostgator offers SiteStudio website designer that is so easy to use that you can create a complete website in less than thirty minutes.

Hostgator's Fantastico DeLuxe allows to install over 50 open source scripts by a click of the mouse, making the process of creating blogs, portals/CMS, customer support pages, desks, discussion forums, shopping carts, image galleries, mailing lists much easier.

Hostgator may eat up the competition, but has nothing but love for its customers. It employs a dedicated experienced team that is ready to assist you 24/7/365 by chat, phone, email, and ticket system. Many hosting companies claim to offer this kind of support and customer satisfaction but not many are willing to prove it. The Hostgator is so insane about customer satisfaction that its owner is at your disposal for any problems you may have.

Whether it is pre-sales, billing or technical question, you will most likely to find the answer to it in the Hostgator’s “Knowledgebase”. Step by step instructions, video tutorials, “how-tos” on almost everything you might come across while hosting & managing your website.

Hostgator uses the latest cPanel - one of the best administration control panels in the industry, and it is the choice of the majority of the webmasters worldwide. It allows you to manage the domain names, monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySQL databases, and much more.

Have you thought of analysing the traffic that comes to your website from different sources such as paid-for and organic search results, other websites, referrals etc? The Hostgator's site stats programs such as Webalizer and Awstats, that come free with any hosting plan, will track the traffic to your page by keyword, IP addresses, referring URLs etc.

Hostgator has no contracts and no hidden fees! You are free to cancel your web hosting at any time without cancellation fees.

Hostgator guarantees that your site will be up 99.9% of the time they host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures. If your site isn't up 99.9% in any one month they will issue a full refund for the month.

Hostgator has been able to maintain its performance and outstanding customer support since 2002. In our opinion Hostgator is the best host of the year 2007.

Hostgator is a privately owned company founded in 2002. It has no debt and has no intention of selling anytime soon. Hostgator provides service to over 400,000 websites through its shared and reseller plans. Hostgator houses its four data centers in Dallas, Texas on 223,000 square feet of space. It has state-of-the-art security, safety, cooling and anti-fire systems including:

Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA)

Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system

Over 500 smoke detectors in integrated system per data center

DataTrax monitoring for all datacenter infrastructure

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