A Comprehensive Review of Hostgator

Overview of Hostgator:

Hostgator was founded in the year of 2002 and today it is ranked as the best of the topnotch shared hosting companies. Most the sites who run a review of such companies have consecutively rated Hostgator among the tops. The well-built support system as well as their customer friendly interface has been the clinching benefit of the company. Even the president of the company stays liable for any level of customer dissatisfaction- now that’s what we call sticking to the vision!
However, recently the company has come to the limelight as it has been the pioneer among such companies who went GREEN! The company buys renewable energy in credit and that amounts to 130% of the total energy consumption of the company.

Hostgator Plans:

In the following table the total planning system of Hostgator has been summarized:

The exclusive features of Hostgator:

• Only hosting with Linux operating system is offered by Hostgator.
• The company is said to start windows operating system very soon.
• All the features those are required to host a formal website are offered at every package of Hostgator.
• If the customer is opting for multiple websites, the baby and swamp packages are bests- since they offer unlimited domain addition features.
• The best control panel so far is the cPanel- and Hostgator uses it.
• You need to install the famous open scripts in the simplest manner? You must go for Hostgator since they offer Fantasico scripts to enable this.

The followings are supported by this host:

o PhP4
o SSH
o Cron Jobs
o Python
o Ruby on Rails

All the package also offer POP3 accounts:

o 20 accounts for Hatchling
o The rest are offered with unlimited accounts

Performance of Hostgator:

All the sites of the company are hosted on Duel Xeon servers. These servers are said to be the top-notch in the industry and their main office is centered at Dallas form where the Hostgate websites are being operated. This data center is highly equipped and is being backed by 10 providers. These providers guarantee a 99.99% uptime as per the standard of the industry.
A lot of reviewers have done trials on Hostgator and it has been found to be in the best form by all the monitors who ran the reviews. They have been able to maintain a constant uptime throughout the years. Amazing as it may sound, the Hostgator has never experienced a case of the server down for 10minutes at a stretch!

Here is a statistics of this main stream host in a nutshell:

The table below summarizes the performance of the company since September, 2008:

Price offered by Hostgator:

Basing on their pricing strategies Hostgator offers three packages: Hatching is the least priced costing $6.95 per month, whereas swamp is the high end package costing around $15. Each price associated with each package seems totally reasonable compared to the features offered at each package.

• Also remains the fact that, very recently- Hostgator has increased their bandwidths at such a level to which this pricing seems like an ultimate bargain.
• They have come up with two pre-paid programs: 24 months and 34months schemes. These schemes enable very low set up costs.
• If you are to consider a sight with reasonable traffic offering services at reasonable price- you are bound to bump into Hostgator!

The Coupon Campaign:

The company is running a pull-strategy promotion via coupon campaigns. The lucky winner of the coupons will be awarded with 20% discount on initial costs. Also for the customers who prefer billing on monthly basis can be benefited from a coupon program that will enable a $0.01 payment in the first month.

Customer support:

Hostgator ensures a 24/7 customer support service throughout the year. Their extensive support program includes:

• Forum
• Knowledge base
• Ticket systems
• Tutorials etc.