HostGator is one of the world’s largest website hosting companies with over 1.3 million hosted domains. They provide shared, reseller and dedicated website hosting plans, each with a 45 day money back guarantee plus a 99.9% uptime guarantee. HostGator requires no contract and offers free setup.
HostGator uses cPanel, the world’s number one control panel. Fantastico is also included, which offers easy installation to over 50 free programs, including WordPress. They have 24/7 phone, chat and email support.
Pricing & Value
While HostGators specialty is usually reseller hosting they also offer affordable dedicated and shared hosting plans as well. The packages for reseller packages range from $25.00 – $100.00 per month depending on what your needs are. Their dedicated servers range from $174.00 – $374.00 per month also depending on your specifications required.
Customers will enjoy the Hatchling plan for shared hosting that offers unlimited bandwidth and disk space for less than $5.00 per month. You will be happy to know that they offer unlimited MySQL databases, free setup, and SpamAssasin software which will help to reduce all of the junk mail that you receive a 45 day money back guarantee, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Best of all aside from their great hosting plans and excellent customer support customers can feel great about themselves by using hosting that not only saves them money but is good for the environment. They are now 130% wind powered by using their Renewable Energy Credits which allows them to provide great hosting and cleaner environment.
Stability
Their data center is housed by The Planet which is located in Dallas, Texas. They have over 35,000 sq ft of floor space and features extraordinary security, cooling systems, and safety. The property is equipped with 4800 volts of input power, Multiple TXU electrical grids, DataTrax monitoring software which covers the whole building, and a strong Certified Cisco Network which includes ten backbone providers.
HostGator has proudly bought into wind power systems that are close to their facilities. With all that they have to offer customers can rely on them for the best security and stability of their servers.
Control Panel
HostGator offers the standard cPanel which most hosting companies now use. Its known as one of the best ones in the market today offering almost 40 scripts that can be easily installed. This cPanel is not only easy to use but it also provides over a million users the ability to install open source along with instant tutorials and flash movies. Your hosting package will also include useful functions such as Fantastico which has over 10,000 installations and content management functions to help you create your site quickly.
Customer Support
HostGator offers excellent customer support which extends from their 24/7 phone support to peer support forums, online chat,, email support, and cPanel flash movies.
I decided to give them a try with the 1 penny coupon and the unlimited package. So far, so good. No problems with getting it set up or with customer service. I would recommend them to anyone.