Hostgator Review
Our Rating Summary:
Recommend:
Tech Support:
Uptime Guarantee:
Plus Points:
- Excellent Tech Support with fast response
- Reliable and fast servers
Company Snapshot:
Hostgator was established in 2002 and is one
of the best hosting companies. What makes them the best is their support.
Tech Support response time is very good and reasonable.
Also tech support staff has sound technical knowledge. Most of the issues
are resolved by 1st tier support. If they cannot resolve, it is passed
on to next tier support level.
Growth of HostGator
was phenomenal. In just 6+ years, they have become one of the leading web hosting
companies. Also, customer loyalty is the best
proof. Most of customers stay with Hostgator and do
recommend to others.
Hostgator specializes in:
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Linux Shared hosting
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Linux as well as Windows Dedicated
hosting
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Reseller Hosting Plans
Price Review:
All shared hosting account plans (starting at $4.95) are well priced
and are feature rich. Prices are very competitive and you have plenty of space/bandwidth to play with. Control panel
features are a big plus. All plans offer add-on open source applications, content
management systems as well blog web applications like
wordpress. Also, you have site builder in all plans,
which makes it easy for a newbie to create their own
site without much technical knowledge.
(See plans summary
below)
Features Summary:
If you are looking for a Linux shared
hosting account, then Hostgator is a sure recommendation.
Their feature rich plans offers plenty of
bandwidth, disk space, php, MySQL
databases Ror(ruby
on Rails).
Server Uptime and Performance:
With their data center located in
Dallas, TX
, Hostgator
host their sites on fast high performance servers. Plus, they provide a 99.9% uptime
Guarantee.
Hosting Plans Details:
Shared Hosting Plans:
For shared hosting,
hostgator specializes in Linux hosting only. (They do plan to add windows
hosting later).
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Hatchling: Price: $4.95/Bandwidth: 3000 GB/ Disk Space: 350 GB
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Baby: Price: $7.95/ Bandwidth: 6000 GB/ Disk Space: 600 GB/Domains:
unlimited
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Swamp: Price: $12.95/Bandwidth: unlimited/Disk Space: 1000 GB/Domains:
unlimited
All these plans are have excellent
features for a shared hosting account. If you have only one website, a Hatchling
plan would suffice.If you have multiple websites/domains,
then you may want to consider Baby or Swamp plans.
Dedicated Hosting Plans:
Hostgator has 4 plans for dedicated hosting.
HostGator dedicated
hosting is a fully managed solution. All plans include cPanel
for free. They also promise to provision, secure, and deliver within 24 hours of
purchase. All plans are valuable and are
reasonably priced(even though you may find better pricing
with other good hosting companies. Check our recommendations Table for more details).
Here’s a snapshot of
Hostgator Dedicated Hosting Plans.
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Linux Dedicated Servers
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Packages
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Basic
(Best Deal)
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Standard
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Elite
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Processor
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Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
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Dual-Core 3040 Xeon (Conroe)
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Dual-Core 3040 Xeon (Conroe)
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Setup Fee
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FREE
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FREE
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FREE
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Monthly Price
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$174.00
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$219.00
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$279.00
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Datacenter Location
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Dallas TX
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Dallas TX
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Dallas TX
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Windows Dedicated Servers
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Packages
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Windows
Basic
(Best Deal)
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Windows
Standard
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Windows
Elite
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Processor
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Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
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Dual-Core 3040 Xeon (Conroe)
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Dual-Core 3040 Xeon (Conroe)
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Setup Fee
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FREE
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FREE
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FREE
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Monthly Price
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$174.00
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$219.00
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$279.00
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Reseller Hosting Plans:
4 plans are offered and evenly priced.
You may find better pricing in other hosting companies. But given their best support,
this is a good package.
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Reseller Hosting Packages
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Plans
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Aluminum
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Copper
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Silver
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Gold
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Diamond
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Disk Space
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24,000mb
24gb
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40,000mb
40gb
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60,000mb
60gb
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80,000mb
80gb
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100,000mb
100gb
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Bandwidth
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250,000mb
250gb
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350,000mb
350gb
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500,000mb
500gb
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600,000mb
600gb
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700,000mb
700gb
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Monthly Price
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$24.95
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$34.95
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$49.95
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$74.95
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$99.95
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