Web Hosting Reviews

Hostgator is one of the leading hosting companies in the Internet today. It is one of your best options whether it be your first time to create a website or even if you’ve been a webmasters for years.

About the company
The company is owned by Brent Oxley and is based in Houston Texas and Toronto. Hostgator has been existent and serving webmasters around the world since October 2002.

Why Hostgator?
Hostgator has years of experience and have worked with a number of people. They are dedicated to optimum customer service and guaranteed uptime.

Hosgator has a versatile operating system, which includes Red Hat Linux, RHEL3 and RHEL4, FreeBSD and CentOS. They can also handle your additional program requirements like ASP or other programming languages.

Technical and Customer Support
Hostgator offers 24 hours support to their customers. They are open 7 days a week, 365 days all year. They also offer a 30-day money back guarantee in case, for whatever reasons, you decide to stop using their service. They offer a live chat technical and sales support in their website. You can also give them a call at 1-866-96-GATOR.

Plan Features
Hostgator guarantees 99.9% uptime for all their clients. It also offers instant back-ups so that you would no longer worry about losing your precious files.

Hostgator also has premium control panel complete with all the features that you need to run your website. It has over 52 ready-to-use scripts that you can use. Some of the popular pre-installed web scripts are blogs, shopping carts, forums, customer support, and image galleries, among others. You can also check the Cpanel yourself by logging in their demo control panel.

Almost all plans, except for the hatchling plan, include a free website builder so you don’t have to pay a separate fee for a web designer any longer. There are no contracts so you can cancel your web hosting service anytime. Plus they also offer a 30-day money back guarantee if ever you are not satisfied with their service.

Plans and Pricing
Hostgator offers 3 types of web hosting plans to suit your needs. They offer personal web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.

All plans come with e-commerce features, complete FTP and web statistics. You can now oversee and evaluate your website performance at no cost!

Personal web hosting plans, the Hatching Plan, starts at only $6.95 a month, which should be paid on an annual basis. This plan has a total of 50 GB of disk space, 200 GB of bandwidth with one available domain. You can have 20 email addresses, 20 ftp accounts and 20 sub domains.

All the rest of the plans come with unlimited email address, unlimited domains, unlimited ftp accounts and unlimited sub domains. The Baby Plan costs $9.95 per month and comes with 100 GB of web space and 1000 GB of bandwidth. The Swamp Plan is priced at $14.95 per month and comes with 200 GB of web space and 2000 GB of bandwidth. The semi-dedicated plan is priced at $74.95 and comes with 25 GB of web space and 500 GB of bandwidth.