Hostgator is one of the biggest web hosting providers in the world. Hostgator hosting has been very successful, because of cheap prices, versatile set of features, quality phone and email support (for the price range). Hostgator web hosting provides also very good offers for new clients. Here’s our Hostgator web hosting review.
Hostgator web hosting in short
- Country of origin and geo location of the Hostgator servers: USA
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited number of web sites
- Unlimited number of domains can be added to the hosting service (addon domains)
- Unlimited number of email addresses
- Instant account activation
- 99.9% uptime quarantee
- CGI, PHP 5, Ryby on the Rails (RoR), Perl
- MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP
- Free site builder
- cPanel based control panel
- Linux-servers, Windows-servers available soon
- Support: phone and email 24 hours every day of the year and chat-based support
- No setup fee
- Monthly based billing
- 45 days money back quarantee
- No long binding contracts or hidden fees
Have a look at the HostGator web hosting features in detail / HostGator pricing
Features of the Hostgator web hosting
Hostgator web hosting has a versatile set of features. There are three different packages available: Hatching, Baby ja Business. The most essial difference between Hostgator packages is that you can only bind one domain to the Hatching package. Other packages support unlimited number of (add-on) domains.
All the Hostgator web hosting services inlclude also unlimited number of email addresses. Hostgator web hosting includes also support for SSH shell connection. To get SSH shell access send a service request (ticket) to Hostgator support team.
Support
Hostgator provides phone and email support. Hostgator also provides chat support. If you are located in different time zone than US times zones, it is great idea to benefit from chat support to save phone costs.
Hostgator pricing
Price level is cheap for the quality it provides, and especially taking into account the versatile set of services provided. Hostgator really uses its competitive edge to the max (economics of scale). Hostgator clients can notice this as low prices, well working support service (24 hours all year around), and all the time extending feature set.
Applications
Hostgator provides Fantastico installation system in the cPanel control panel system. Among others following applications can be easily installed/update:
Blogging tools: b2evolution, Nucleus, WordPress
Content management systems (CMS): Drupal, Joomla, Geeklog, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe, TYPO3, Xoops
Customer support systems: Crafty Syntax Live Help, Help Center Live, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHP Support Tickets, Support Logic Helpdesk, Support Services Manager
Forums: phpBB3, SMF
Online shop systems: CubeCart, OS Commerce, Zen Cart
Photo galleries: Coppermine Photo Gallery, 4Images Gallery, Gallery
Email list management and sending: PHPlist
Voting and polls: Advanced Poll, phpESP, LimeSurvey
Project management: dotProject, PHProjekt
Web site builders: Site Builders, Soholaunch Pro Edition, Templates Express
Wikis: TikiWiki, PhpWiki
Other scripts: mm. Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, Noahs Classifieds, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, PHPauction, PhpFormGenerator, WebCalendar
Review
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(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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#1 by stop6 on October 10th, 2010
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Host Gator simply rocks. It has been in use for years. Couple of times server down for few hours (that I’ve noticed), but otherwise great. Price / Quality price is great. If you have really critical applications of course then you won’t go for shared hosting.. you go for dedicated, but otherwise Hostgator is good choice.