Web Site Hosting Reviews

Overview

HostGator has been providing services since 2002 and host more than 400,000 websites. Company offers shared, reseller and dedicated hosting services. HostGator's motto is "We eat up the competition" so they do all the best to hold their leading positions in the hosting industry. HostGator's hosting plans are feature rich and include nice amounts of disk space and bandwidth. Their telephone support is available 24/7.

Features

HostGator provides shared, reseller and dedicated hosting. All of hosting services from this company are very affordable. But HostGator is the world's leading provider of reseller accounts with over 10,000 resellers.

HostGator presents 5 reseller hosting plans: Aluminum, Copper, Silver, Gold and Diamond. Ordering one of this plans one get the ability to host unlimited number of domains and subdomains. Diskspace varies from 12 Gb (Aluminum) to 50 Gb (Diamond). Traffic, offered by HostGator, lies in range from 125Gb to 350 Gb.

All reseller plans come with a free billing manager by WHM AutoPilot, free hosting templates, and a free eNom domain reseller account. Combined with a free merchant account from PayPal this provides customer with a completed web site that allows visitors to signup from his website, pay him instantly, and automatically have their account created within minutes. Monthly price for all this features ranges from $24.95 to $99.95.

Shared plans from HostGator are also feature-rich. There are Hatchling, Baby, Swamp and Semi Dedicated . The price starts from $6.95 when paid annually for the Hatchling plan. The most expensive, Semi Dedicated, costs $74.95. The differences between the plans (except the price, of course) are in the number of resources. Bandwidth varies from 200Gb to 1000 Gb, storage - from 50Gb to 200 Gb. The Baby plan allows to host 1 domain, 20 sub domains. For other plans number of hosted domains/subdomains is unlimited. Of course, all shared plans from HostGator include e-mail, web statistic, control panel and e-commerce features.

Customer Support

HostGator provides quality customer support. They offer several methods of support. Toll free telephone support, live support, email support, ticket system are available. Through the billing system in the control panel, customers can update their billing information. There is also knowledge base with answers on frequently asked questions and some flash tutorials with step by step recommendations. Customer support is available 24/7/365.

Conclusion

Providing reliable hosting for the reasonable money, HostGator recommended itself as one of the leading hosting providers in the industry.