Is Hostgator recommended?

Hostgator offers three different hosting pakcages, known as Hatchling, Baby, and Swamp. Each hosting plan has different features and we will be reviewing the most popular hosting plan here, which is the ‘Baby Plan’. From the features table, you can see that Hostgator hosting plan (Baby) is slightly expensive ($1 extra if compare to average price) however you’ll get what you’re paying for. Not many hosting companies are willing to offer unlimited MySQL connection as this will eat up server resources – however this is not the case with Hostgator. In case cost is a big issue for you, try out Hostgator’s Hatchling Plan where you get hosting with Hostgator in a cheaper price ($4.95/mo).

Hostgator is highly recommended – especially if you are looking for a reliable web host or a reseller hosting account.

hostgator Review: History
HostGator was founded in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida. Host Gator is composed to take the lead in the highly competitive and closely compacted world of web hosting providers. HostGator is only about three years old, but their reputation for service and support is growing by leaps and bounds. It provides reliable service, superior support and affordable pricing to businesses and individuals seeking quality shared hosting, reseller, or dedicated web hosting solutions.

hostgator Review: Features

HostGator chooses CPanel as user control panel. CPanel is very user friendly, extremely feature rich and it includes an easy-to-use web based interface (GUI). Other features that are included in the control panel of HostGator are Fantastico Hot, Hotlink Protection, Ip deny manager, Custom Error pages, Instant Blogs, Instant Portals, Instant php nuke, Instant Chatroom, Instant Forums, Instant Guestbook, Instant Counter, Instant Formmail, Redirect URL, web based ftp, PW Protected Directrories and phpMyAdmin.

hostgator Review: Support

* 3 way contact support, via telephone, email and by live chat.
* Ticket System, to view your ticket history
* Billing System
* Knowledgebase to quickly find answers to your pre-sales, billing, and support needs.
* Flash Tutorials
* Online Hosting Community, to communicate with other users to solve your problem.

hostgator Review: Data center

The Planet's Data Center boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space featuring state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems and is second-to-none in the industry.

* (21) 26-ton Data Air AC units
* Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
* Over 500 smoke detectors in an integrated system
* Simplex security badge entry/exit on all doors to facility
* Multiple TXU electrical grids
* 4800 volts of input power
* 3 main transfer switches
* 1-megawatt generator (2000-gallon tank)
* 1.5-megawatt generator (2200-gallon tank)

DataTrax monitoring software for all data center infrastructure.

hostgator Review: Reliability/speed

Choosing Host Gator means that your sites will be accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers. These providers include: UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT&T, Time Warner, Allegiance Telecom, Broadwing, AboveNet.

HostGator with in 3 years of time it has won several awards (A 5-star host recommended by webhostmagazine.com) gaining a high reputation in the market. They haven't experienced any traffic down turn in past 2 years. Their Alexa ranking is also high which proves that the traffic level is increasing instantly.

hostgator Review: Conclusion

They are extremely affordable, have extremely reliable servers and friendly support. Recommended highly as a dedicated server host.