HostGator Review

HostGator provides unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth to all its customers. This is great news for all website owners interested in uploading large volumes of data and attracting a wealth of visitors without having to worry about shelling out extra cash for utilizing extra space and bandwidth.

Website owners who do not want to hire a web designer can easily utilize HostGator’s website templates and site builder tool. These tools are fairly easy to use and anyone with a little knowledge of point and click tools, and with some aesthetic sense can get a website up and running pretty quick.

HostGator can accommodate just 1 domain in its most basic plan, while more advanced plans can accommodate unlimited domains. This will benefit web design companies who have many clients.

HostGator also provides the flexibility of creating unlimited MySQL databases, which is another plus for web design studios, digital interactive agencies and app makers that host numerous apps, each with a different database.

Along with the above, HostGator also throws in a lot of helpful features including e-commerce-enabling tools like Zen Cart. Its Control Panel is easy to work with and can be mastered with ease.

HostGator offers 3 plans – Hatchling, Baby and Business. The Hatchling Plan starts at $3.96/month if you book it for 36 months and goes up to $7.16 for a month-to-month length booking.

The Baby Plan starts at $6.36/month and goes up to $7.96 for a month-to-month booking. On similar terms, the Business Plan starts at $10.36/month and goes up to $11.96/month.

The key differentiators are: Business Plans are full-featured, plus they have their own dedicated IP address, anonymous FTP and toll-free number. Baby Plans are also full-featured but do not quite have everything that Business Plans do, for example they do not come with a free dedicated IP. The Hatchling Plan, which is ideal for light users, has more limits and accommodates just a single domain.

To sum things up, the Hatchling Plan is ideal for light-middling users, the Baby Plan works well for e-commerce and interactive sites with a fair amount of traffic, while the Business plan is great for professionally managed medium and large size firms.

HostGator offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee and if you read a few online reviews you will quickly note that almost all of their customers are happy with their services. Plus they offer a 45-day money-back guarantee and 24/7/365 online and phone support.

You will also enjoy their handy “Help” section as well, plus users will have access to their well-populated forums.

HostGator’s web hosting services are an absolute value. They equip customers with web traffic software, shopping carts, redirect URL, unlimited POP3 email accounts with SMTP, autoresponders, $100 worth of Google Adwords credit so you can start advertising your business as soon as you get up and running.

It is really difficult to find fault with HostGator’s hardware, services, price and overall reputation, so if you have chosen them for your web hosting needs, or are about to, then you have made a wise decision.