HostGator Review, One Host You Can Trust

by harmen batubara

From my experience I have bad side in dealing with webhosting, until I met hostgator and using their services. Actually there are  many webhosting companies out there and you just choose one that suit for your need. My Hostgator reviews here are try to explain or just to inform you that this hosting company is one hosting services that you must consider especially from variaties of their services, quality and the prices that you can get. I not try to force you in using their services…no…and again I just try to introduce  you a webhosting company that the services I like and as I said you can get easily out there; after you read my review and you get the point it is not bad to try HostGators Services..Just It. It does not matter for me if you by it thru my Link or not it are not the point…If you are a newbie I just try to tell you that this hosting it is good for you to consider…Just it. So here I just try to expose what’s HaosGator Is?

HostGator is a world provider of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by Founder and current Chairman Brent Oxley. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 12,000 servers under management. The over five million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

In 2008, HostGator was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. According to Inc. Magazine, HostGator is the 21st fastest growing private company in America, the second fastest growing private company in the “business services” sector, and the fastest growing private company in Texas. In order to keep up with the company’s rapid growth, HostGator moved from its original office in Boca Raton, Florida into a new 20,000 square foot office building in Houston, Texas. If you like to find out Web Hosting Awards receiving by HostGator just CLICK HERE the votes are in and the critics have spoken, awarding HostGator as the top pick for web hosting across the board. HostGator raises the bar in the world of web hosting for speed, reliability and support without comparison.

The company is constantly working to improve and refine that service and support and achieve its goal of becoming the world leader in the global web hosting market. HostGator’s management team consists of web hosting and technology veterans working together to ensure HostGator continues to grow and progress. HostGator has chosen The Planet to be its exclusive data center and network provider and has since become The Planet’s largest customer. HostGator’s long standing relationship with The Planet allows HostGator customers to utilize one of the world’s best networks to power their web sites and ensure maximum uptime. The Planet’s world-class datacenters feature state of the art security, power, safety, and cooling systems – all designed to ensure that service remains uninterrupted.

HostGator houses servers in four of The Planet’s Dallas, Texas-area datacenters. Ranging from 22,000 to more than 78,000 square feet, these world-class datacenters contain top of the line technology to ensure that servers stay cool, secure, and up at all times. The datacenters feature redundant power, HVAC, and fire detection systems, and are monitored 24/7 by both HostGator and The Planet’s Network Operation Centers.

Hostgator also offers the very popular application hosting services by which you can instantly install over 75 open source scripts with Quick Install. You get Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP (LAMP), and Ruby (on Rails). Python/DJango, Perl, 1-Click Quick Install Software (free), SSH & FTP Access along with Unlimited Disk Space & Bandwidth and 45 Day Money Back Guarantee Whether you want to create a blog, start a forum, use a CMS, wiki, upload to your own photo gallery, or sell online with an E-commerce store, you can do so quickly and easily through HostGator. Since HostGator runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, thousands of existing applications and software are compatible.

• Word Press Hosting – Looking to start a blog, or want a better home for your existing blog? Look no further than WordPress combined with HostGator’s auto Word Press Installer, and compatible Word Press hosting environment.
• Joomla Hosting or Drupal Hosting – HostGator supports the latest Content Management Systems (CMS), including Joomla and Drupal. You have complete control over your CMSand can completely customize your site with themes and plug-in.
• Magento Hosting – Start selling online today with your own E-commerce store powered by HostGator and Magento. HostGator’s Business plan gives you everything you need to automatically install magento, as well as a free dedicated IP and private SSL to accept credit card transactions right from your web site.
• Wiki Hosting – Even if your site doesn’t become the next Wikipedia, wikis are still a great way to allow many people to contribute and update information on a web site. HostGator supports the most popular wiki software, including: MediaWiki, TikiWiki, PmWiki, and WikkaWiki.
• phpBB Hosting – Host your community with HostGator and the free, open source phpBB forum software. phpBB is easily configurable, and can be installed in seconds.

Quick Install is the simple way to install and automatically update free software to your HostGator account. Currently over 75 scripts are available and can be installed with just a click. Already have a web site hosted somewhere else? Sign up for HostGator, and they’ll transfer your entire website for free.

Quick Install Software installs all these Blog Software – Word Press, Life Type, b2evolution,Forum Software – phpBB, Simple Machines, bbPress, CMS Software – Joomla, Drupal, concrete5, MODx, E-commerce Software – Magento, Open Cart, Zen Cart, osCommerce,Wiki Software – MediaWiki, TikiWiki, PmWiki, WikkaWiki.

HostGator have a many options to choose like Cpanel control panel. Quality services and support is offered 24/7 via phone, live chat, and an email ticket system. All their plans offer unlimited domain names (except hatchling) as well as a lot of bandwidth and disk space. Below are the options or plan categories available: To make sure the new version packaged please check it Here

Hatchling:

Under this plan category, you get unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth is offered. Other services include unlimited sub domains, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited POP3 accounts and 1 domain is also allowed. This service is priced at $4.95 a month

Baby:

This plan category offers unlimited disk space; bandwidth and you can host unlimited sites. Moreover, it offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $7.95 a month.

Business:

Under this category, customers get an access to unlimited disk space and bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. You also get your own toll-free number absolutely free, in addition to a free dedicated IP as well as free private SSL. This service is priced at $12.95 per month.

Reseller Plans:

HostGator’s reseller hosting plans come with the Cpanel (your customers or end-users control panel) and WHM (reseller control panels to create Cpanels for your customers or end users) control panels. Hostgator resellers have the flexibility to host unlimited sites. Quality services and support is offered 24/7 via phone, live chat, and an email ticket system. Besides offering unlimited domain names; the reseller account also offers free domain registry account (eNom domain reseller account), free hosting templates, a billing program, and much more. Below are the options or plan categories available under this plan:

• Aluminum Reseller Plan:
• Under this plan category, 24 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth are provided. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This reseller plan is priced at $24.95 per month.
• Copper Reseller Plan:
• The copper reseller plan offers its customers 40 GB of disk space and 350 GB of bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $34.95 per month.
• Silver Reseller Plan:
• 60 GB of disk space and 500 GB of bandwidth are offered under this particular plan. The silver reseller plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $49.95 per month.
• Gold Reseller Plan:
• 80 GB of disk space and 600 GB of bandwidth are offered under this plan category. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $74.95 per month.
• Diamond Reseller Plan:
• 100 GB of disk space and 700 GB of bandwidth are offered under this plan category. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $99.95 per month.

Dedicated Plans:

The plan includes complete server management as well as a control panel with every server. The best part of a dedicated server is that you can customize it to suit your requirements and get the most out of the plan. Moreover, you get to choose which operating system you want to run which include Red Hat Linux 9.0, RHEL3, RHEL4, CentOS, or FreeBSD. Any aspect can also be upgraded such as memory or disk drives. Below are the options or plan categories available under this plan:

Unmanged Dedicated:

This plan category offers 25 GB of disk space and 500 GB of bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $74.95 per month.

Hostgator Linux Dedicated Servers

Basic Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core). The plan offers a bandwidth of 1500 GB, 250 GB hard drive, DDR Memory of 1 GB RAM. The server comes with the latest cpanel, up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. The datacenter location is in Texas, U.S.A. This service is priced at $174 per month. This server is ideal for those with a few large websites that aren’t that memory intensive. Generally even the slowest CPU is more than capable for most websites. A server would generally require more RAM before it needs a CPU upgrade. However, the Basic server has a dual core Xeon server, making it able to multi-task quite nicely.

Standard Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core). The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2 x 80 GB SATA. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $219 per month. Having two CPU cores on a state of the art processor setup like the Basic server will enable this server to multitask quite well. The main advantage would be the 4 GB RAM over the Basic server’s 1 GB RAM. Also this server comes with two 250 GB drives (twice of the Basic server) which we can setup as a backup drive upon request (one drive backs up to the other). This is quickly becoming our most popular selling server just on account of the increased RAM.

Elite Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual Xeon 2.8. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2 x 73 GB SCSI. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $279 per month. Intel processor with quad cores running are great for multitasking, and the 4 GB of RAM will really help on memory intensive sites or sites with large databases. The two 500 GB drives can be set up so the primary drive does an automatic daily backup to the secondary drive which ensures that your sites’ data is still available in case a drive were to fail or server information gets lost or deleted. This server also has 1,000 GB more bandwidth than the Basic or Standard server.

Pro Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 4x500GB SATA II RAID10. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $374 per month. This server is actually a super fast Intel Xeon Quad Core 3360 with 8 GB of RAM (insane) and dual 500 GB hard drives. This server might be the most expensive, but it’s by far our least profitable, and the best deal in terms reliability, performance, and redundancy. If you are looking to host many sites, with the best possible uptime. Or if you’d like to use this as a pure work horse this is the server you want.

Hostgator Windows Dedicated Servers

Basic Windows Dedicated Server:

There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. The plan offers a bandwidth of 1500 GB and a hard drive of 80 GB, SATA. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $174 per month. This server is ideal for those with a few large websites that aren’t that memory intensive. Generally even the slowest CPU is more than capable for most websites. A server would generally need more RAM before it needs a CPU upgrade.

Standard Windows Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is a Dual Xeon 2.4. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2 x 80 GB SATA. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $219 per month. Having two CPU cores on a state of the art processor setup will enable this server to multitask much easier with anything CPU intensive. An example of when this would be very useful is when a site’s logs are being processed for stats on the server and WebPages are still being accessed. Websites that are bandwidth intensive will have more room to grow with 1,500 GB of data transfer with the Standard server setup.

Elite Windows Dedicated Server:

There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual Xeon 2.8. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2 x 73 GB SCSI. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $279 per month. Two Intel Xeon processors running at 2.4 GHz are great for multitasking, and the 2 GB of RAM will really help on memory intensive sites or sites with large databases. The two 80 GB drives can be set up so the primary drive does an automatic daily backup to the secondary drive which ensures that your sites’ data is still available in case a drive were to fail or server information gets lost or deleted. Honestly though, although some buyers prefer this tested CPU, we recommend the standard dedicated server’s CPU power with the Dual Core setup as every benchmark show it to outperform the Elite’s Dual Xeons. Get this server if your script is memory intensive. If it’s not, save the money and go with the Standard.

Pro Windows Dedicated Server:

There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 4x500GB SATA II RAID10. Up to 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $374 per month. Don’t let the 3120 name confuse you. The Intel Xeon 3120 CPU is actually a Quad CPU core processor capable of multitasking and is the perfect chip for servers with heavy traffic. This server might be the most expensive, but it’s by far our least profitable, and the best deal in terms reliability, performance, and redundancy. If you are looking to host many sites, with the best possible uptime. Or if you’d like to use this as a pure work horse this is the server you want!

Okay so what do all the features means?

Before we discussed it with you I would like to say as webhosting company, HostGator also received many complain thru their customer one of them I put here;

Genre Addict left a negative review(6-16-10) of HostGator, here is the review ( you can find this review in HostGator official site too, so they just do it with fair and honestly):
Completely avoid them;

• They say they offer “unlimited bandwidth” but the moment you get even a few thousand visitors a day they’ll shut your website down without warning.
• GenreAddict was experiencing regular downtime, almost daily. I must have contacted them 50 times in the 3 months I hosted with them. Each time they told me it was their server and not my website causing the issue, and that they were working on it. I must have experienced 20% downtime in those 3 months.
• Then, when GenreAddict was getting just over 3000 visitors a day, I received an email saying they had shut it down. No warning. They just shut it down due to visitor numbers with the comment “We’d be pleased to upgrade you to a dedicated server.”

By the time I found out the site was shut down, Google had removed all of Genre Addict’s search engine rankings. The crawler had tried to contact Genre Addict and had been refused access so Google, being Google, determined the site was no longer active. In one foul swoop, Hostgator ruined my website, all without warning – and on the very next day put through my monthly debit! Can you believe that? Charging me for a website they weren’t even actively hosting!

So now lets back again to our discussion. Actually all of the hosting providers will have a huge list of all the features their package has, but they are all pretty much the same, they all do the same things. Most of the web hosting companies offers two options such as those of servers and shared server during selling servers to their clients. People often get confused while choosing the best servers for their web hosting especially if it is come to dedicated and share hosting.

In dedicated hosting, you rent a server that is not shared with anyone else, where as in share hosting, many websites are hosted on the same server to save money and share resources. When in comparison between dedicated servers and share hosting, the dedicated servers enable you to install data applications. Furthermore, these servers as well offer full control over the entire operating system and enable you to customize the hardware as well as the software setups to meet all your requirements. These servers also offer more privacy to you then shared hosting. In these servers, no other customers have access to your server and hence, the data is secured than in shared hosting. Through these servers, you can also install desired software with superior flexibility and administrative options.

This server also offers a better service level agreement, which is better than shared web hosting. Also it offers hundred percent of network up time for which the server will function and will be available for use.

If you ask webmaster about HostGator, I believe all they are already know what is meaning in webhosting, almost all webmaster like and choose HostGator. From their beginning in 2002, Hostgator is one of the web hosting companies with excellent service and one of the most respectful offering services to more than 1,500,000 of clients websites and with over 20,000 resellers. With its different web hosting plans that Hostgator offers, you can choose the most convenient one to meet your needs.   With Hostgator, you can choose from its shared web hosting, vps hosting and dedicated servers. The service quality is excellent.  Hostgator is one of the most reliable to hosting your web by offering the best technology in servers.  Now, they are present the services that stand out from other companies:

The Hostgator shared web hosting plans starts from $4.95 per month. This is an unlimited service plan. The Hatching is for those users who begin their web page. The Hostgator Baby Plan offers you unlimited domains and a share ssl certificate for $7.95 per month. If you want to do your web page for your Business we recommend you the Business Plan from Hostgator because they even include free Dedicated SSL and IP services in addition to their unlimited Domain services, Disk and Bandwidth. An important option that this plan includes is a Toll-Free Number!

With Hostgator shared web hosting plans, it’s included a free site builder tool for you to make your web page and up to 4,500 free templates to have your web page in few minutes. Creating your blog is easy because you can obtain all the necessary applications and it’s quick and easy to install just in one click. Don’t worry about the space and bandwidth because with Hostgator they are unlimited.

Environment Friendly

Lately Hostgator had turned green by powering and cooling their server using wind power.

Conclusion: Is Hostgator recommended?

• Is Hostgator recommended? Short answer, YES! But again it is up to you, I just give you information and you make decisions. But if you want na to try here just use my Link and get my bonus Here. Just send me your prof order or valid order to my email here. I would sent you my bonus.
• As I mentioned, I’ve been using Hostgator hosting for my entire site and I have no complaints at all. This website, for example, is hosted on Hostgator and it records a remarkable 99.9% server uptime throughout the years and Hostgator had never failed me even once.
• So, in case you are looking an affordable yet reliable web host with room to expand, look no further, Hostgator is your answer. Trust me, these guys are serious and professional with their business and you can 100% trust them with your websites.

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