Hostgator Review
Hostgator was founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley and is privately owned. The firm is based in Houston, Texas and has an office in Boca Raton, Florida. The company now hosts over 400,000 websites on its servers. Hostgator enjoys great customer loyalty due to itīs focus on superior customer service.
Hosting features at Hostgator.com
Hostgator is a CPanel host which gives their customers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. On the most affordable "Hatchling" plan you can only host one domain. But on the "Baby" plan -still rather cheap at 9.95$/month- you can host unlimited domains. Your website can be easily backed up on a daily basis via the CPanel interface. Hostgator provides 52 one click install free scripts including CMS, Blogs, Discussion Boards, Shopping Carts, and many more. For those who want to switch from their current hosting firm Hostgator.com provides a free website transfer service. Hostgator supports almost all of the biggest open source programming languages and offers unlimited MySQL databases on all plans to enable even the most ambitious coding projects. All hosting plans run on Linux but you can keep your .ASP code and run it via Sunīs Chillsoft cross platform .ASP software.
Hostgator customer service
Hostgator has earned a reputation for a relentless dedication to customer service. Customer service representatives are available around the clock via phone, fax, live chat or email. A ticket system keeps track of your inquiries. Additional information is provided via the Hostgator knowledge base with many articles and tutorials. The flash tutorials are comprised of many different movies which assist with various web hosting issues. If you need additional input you can always consult other users in the Hostgator hosting forum.
Hostgator technical information
Customersī websites are hosted on Dual Xenon Servers. Hostgatorīs servers are located in four different data centers in Dallas. All of them feature raised floors, a Very Early Smoke Detector Apparatus (VESDA), UPS power backups, sprinkler systems, Northern Proximity security badge entry/exit. Hostgator has 10 different backbone carriers including AT&T and Global Crossing to name but a few. They connect via a OC 48 connection. The smooth operation of the network is maintained through switches and routers from Juniper and Cisco.
Hosting plans
Hostgator Linux and Unix plans:
Hatchling: 50 GB storage and 200 GB transfer, $6.95/month
Baby: 100 GB storage and 1000 GB transfer, $9.95/month
Swamp: 4 * 250 GB storage and 2000 GB transfer, $14.95/month
Semi-dedicated: 25 GB storage and 500 GB transfer, $74.95/month
