Hostgator Review

Coupon Code: MARCHMAD

Hostgator is a privately owned web hosting company founded in 2002. According to Hostgator official claims, they provide hosting service for more than 1,000,000 websites and lead in hosting reseller accounts with over 20,000 resellers.

Hostgator Overall rating

Hostgator Inc.
Website: http://www.hostgator.com

Features	:
Support	:
Pricing	:
Reliability	:
Hosting Cost	: $4.96/mo*
Overall Rating	: A+ *Recommended

*Note: All Hostgator prices listed here are based on prices after special discount. To enjoy this special offer, simply apply promo code “WHSR25Discount” upon ordering.

What’s good with Hostgator hosting?

BabyGator	Price
12 months plan	$7.46/mo*
24 months plan	$6.71/mo*
36 months plan	$5.96/mo*
Promo Code	MARCHMAD

Hosting Features	Specs
Disk Space	Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth	Unlimited
Free Domain Name	No
Free Site Builder	Yes
CGI-BIN	Yes
SSI	Yes
Frontpage Extensions	Yes
FTP Access	Yes

Email Features	Details
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Forwarders	Yes
Auto Responders	Yes
Web-Based Email	Yes

eCommerce Features	Details
Agora Shopping Cart	Yes
osCommerce	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes
Cube Cart	Yes
Private SSL	Yes

Software/Plugin	Details
Perl 5	Yes
PHP 5	Yes
mySQL Databases	Unlimited
Ruby/Ruby on Rails	Yes
Java script/DHTML	Yes
Fantastico	Yes
Message Forum (PHPBB & more)	Yes
Guest Books	Yes
Image Galleries	Yes

Payment Method	Details
Credit Card	Yes
PayPal	Yes

Policy	Details
Full Refund	45 days

I’ve been hosting websites at Hostgator long before I started this website and I still run a couple of websites with them at current time. With its quality service, the hosting company is growing fast and was named top in Texas for the recent Inc 5000 Awards.

Indeed they are one of the best hosting companies you can ever get and they are in my ‘A list’ and here are the keypoints of Hostgator’s success.

*Updates: Hostgator is now my top choice of hosting. Hostgator hosting service is reliable, priced reasonable, environmental friendly, and best of all, their customer supports rocks!

Reliable

server
with guarnateed 99.9% uptime

Thru out the years Hostgator has never fail me as a reliable hosting service. I barely notice any downtime for my websites – while this was quite a surprise until I recently found out that Hostgator is running its own data center (huge plus point).

Also, it’s worth noting that every web hosting plan with Hostgator comes with a 45 day money back guarantee and 99.9% uptime guarantee. The deal is fully guaranteed by the company founder and CEO (Brent) himself – which is another huge plus point (responsible management team).

Host
unlimited domain
Hostgator is now offering ~~600GB of disk storage and 6,000GB bandwidth~~ unlimited bandwidth and disk storage!. On top of that, you will get unlimited domain hosting with Hostgator. In short, this actually means that you can host ALL YOUR WEBSITES in just one single web hosting account with Hostgator.

Unlimited

MySQL and

POP3 email account
While most other hosting companies will only allow you to have a certain number of MySQL database, you get unlimited (I repeat, unlimited!) MySQL database with Hostgator. That’s quite an advantage if you’re planning to build a huge web application.

Room to grow

Hostgator offers shared, dedicated, reseller hosting. Along with the recently launched VPS hosting plans, Hostgator offer great rooms for website growth. This makes server switching and upgrading possible within Hostgator – which in other words, huge money and time savings for you as the website owner.

Environment Friendly

Lately Hostgator had turned green by powering and cooling their server using wind power.

HostGator is home to over 1,000,000 web sites, and growing. Do a searchfor "HostGator" on webhostingtalk to see 100's of positive reviews!