HostGator Review
About the Company:
Hostgator.com, LLC opened for business back in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida. Growing quickly and being relatively new to the hosting industry, they have committed themselves to providing superior quality service. With a broad range of features available on every hosting package, including unlimited domain hosting,
Hostgator.com is able to serve the needs of the smallest personal site to the largest corporate web presence.
Hosting Plans:
Four plans are offered with a plethora of features attached (all prices are per month):
The Hatchling plan gives you 350 GB (350,000 MB) of disk space,3000 GB of data transfer and 20 POP Email Accounts.
The Baby package gives you 600 GB (600,000MB) of disk space, 6000 GB of data transfer, and unlimited domain and subdomain hosting. Also included are an unlimited number of MySQL databases, 25 POP3 email accounts, as well as support for CGI, PHP, Perl, Python, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, among others. Higher level packages also support JSP and Chilisoft ASP. Various shopping carts are also available in every package to meet any eCommerce needs.
Additionally, Reseller and Dedicated Server plans are offered for prices ranging from $24.95 to $99.95 per month for Reseller hosting and $174.00 to $374.00 per month for Dedicated Server hosting.
Reliability:
Dual Xeon servers running Red Hat Linux 9.0 with full and instant backups and a promised 99.9% uptime guarantee provide security and a sense of ease in choosing this hosting company.
Hostgator.com has partnered with The Planet’s data center (located in Dallas, TX) to provide the highest connectivity with minimal downtime possible. The Planet has created a highly server-friendly environment to ensure maximum performance and reliability of service.
The Planet’s network features Juniper M20 border routers connected to six OC48 fiber lines and uses Cisco 6500, 3500, and 2900 switches internally. The network itself is fully meshed with eleven Internet backbone providers, allowing for high quality connections and solid bandwidth.
Support:
Complete 24/7/365 support perfectly rounds out this company’s service. Customers can access support via toll-free telephone number, email, live chat on their website, and even through popular chat and IM clients such as MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and AOL IM. Unlike many hosting companies, phone calls are answered promptly and with minimal wait time (on three separate calls at different times, average wait was less then 60 seconds).
They also offer a user forum for the exchange of ideas and solutions to problems, a very thorough FAQ section, and a tutorial section providing step by step assistance in setting up email, FTP, FrontPage, etc.
Conclusion:
Hostgator provides a large variety of features packed into solid and reliable hosting plans. Their support structure is designed to offer the highest level of customer support to even the smallest web site. Although many hosting companies offer pricing plans at a lower monthly cost, most do not match the number and quality of features and the ability to have unlimited domains under one plan.
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