Editors HostGator Review

HostGator Review

Established in 2002, today HostGator is one of the leading web hosting company known for providing reliable (competition eating) web hosting solutions. A small business or a corporate user, they have the plan that will suit your present ad future needs. You’ll find most web hosts offering one hosting plan and expecting the users to adopt it. Whether they require half the features or not.. they have to pay for it, that’s where HostGator eats into the competition by providing a while range of service allowing the users to determine what they need and pay only for that. In a very short period of time HostGator has earned an amazing goodwill for itself, today it is undeniably one of the shared web hosing industry leaders with over 1,000,000 websites hosted with them.


Hosting Plans and Features
Like I just mentioned, their web hosting plans are tailored to suit the needs of various categories of users. Their basic plan which I had purchased a while back, they call it “Hatchling‿, it comes with a disk space of 350 GB disk space and allows for a monthly data transfer of 3,000 gigs, in addition to that, they allow you to create Unlimited POP3 email accounts and all that for comes just $4.95 per month!

Additional features like DNS management, spam filter, email anti virus, remote access database and password protected directories etc., are also provided. Your site is hosted from one of their state of the art Dual Xeon servers that can provide instant backups of your site on request via the control panel with just a couple of clicks. Their custom made control panel is one of the best in the industry, and comes with a collection of over 39 very useful scripts that can be installed with a click of the mouse.

Money Back Guarantee
There’s no contract, they provide their service with a 30 day money back guarantee. You can try a full featured account for 30 days then decide if you would like to continue with them or not, their money back policy is simple and no questions are asked.

Customer Support
Their customer support program portal is complete and very user friendly. You get access to the basic ticket based support which is fast and sufficient. Then there is the knowledge-base, where one can look up for his queries. They also provide an option of live chat with their support staff. There is another option in case of an emergency, you can choose to call them on their toll free number during business hours.

Reliability and Security
Privacy statement provided by HostGator has all kinds of conditions and services as to create an environment of high standard of business. But what made me sign-up an account with them is the fact that their infrastructure is amazing and considering they own their datacenter and that they have their own technicians, engineers and staff looking after the entire hosting environment, they can rectify any problem that might occur within minutes and that too themselves unlike my previous web host (and almost 99% of other web hosts out there who have no control over their infrastructure) who had no control over his co-located servers, there was a hardware failure and my business suffered a loss of over 60 hours downtime in result!

Conclusion
HostGator is one of the fastest growing web hosting companies, they are undoubtedly one of the best and highly reliable service providers out there today. Their prices are one of the most competitive in the industry and if you are looking for a value for money host, you don’t need to look any further, just assess your current needs select a plan and get started!

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