Company: http://www.hostgator.com

Founded: 2002

Price: From $3.96/month

Bandwidth: Unlimited

Space: Unlimited

Domains Allowed: Unlimited

Money Back Guarantee: 45 Days

Rating:

Overview

Founded in 2002 by CEO Brent Oxley, HostGator started from his college dorm room using only 3 servers. Now hosting over 2 million domains, which make up approximately 1% of the world’s internet traffic, HostGator has over 7,000 servers under their management.

Plans we are comparing in this review:

Hatchling Price: From $3.96/month Space: Unlimited Bandwidth: Unlimited Domains Allowed: 1 Platform: Linux

Baby Price: From $6.36/month Space: Unlimited Bandwidth: Unlimited Domains Allowed: Unlimited Platform: Linux

Support

Both the Hatchling and Baby plans compare well to many other top hosts such as BlueHost, DreamHost, Justhost, etc, but what sets HostGator apart is the service. We have signed up with all of the hosts reviewed on this site, and HostGator is the hands down favorite.

HostGator provides 24/7 tech support through numerous methods including phone, and online chat. This has personally helped us out on multiple occasions. There have been times at 3:00 in the morning where we are updating a site, and have a question or technical problem we need assistance with. With other hosts, it is time consuming to get a response, especially during off times, or peak hours. But with HostGator, we can log into the chat support, and are typically helped in less than 5 minutes. It’s not hard to see how beneficial that is, especially when as a customer, you are at a standstill and unable to go further without technical support.

Using HostGator From Another Country

A sidenote for readers that are in another country. What’s great about HostGator is their 24 support, especially through chat. Our readers in other countries have cited that as a huge selling point for them. The UK for example, is lacking in terms of available hosting options. And for those that decide to go with an American company, they can run into huge problems when they need to contact tech support. Because since it is in another time zone, they usually end up with little or no assistance. This can be a major problem. Our readers have in other countries have told us how fantastic it is to be able to fire up chat support and get instant help, regardless of what time zone they are in. If you are in the UK, Australia, or even Canada, we suggest checking out HostGator and seeing how they stack up against the alternatives in your respective country. With their money back guarantee, you have little to lose by trying them out.

Down Time

We should have titled it “Up Time” going by our experience thus far. HostGator guarantees 99.9% uptime with their servers. So if you are running a business, or just a personal blog, that is something to find comfort in. We have yet to experience any downtime in the last year since switching over to Hostgator. On other sites that we have hosted with different hosting companies (GoDaddy for example), we have had more than once where downtime ended up costing multiple lost sales, as well as lost leads. So Hostgators stability was a huge seller for us.

Money Back Guarantee

Last but not least, every web hosting plan comes with a 45 day money back guarantee. That to us, shows the confidence they have in the product, and gives us a greater sense of security.

Overall Rating

Pros

• Great price
• Excellent 24/7 Support via chat as well as phone.
• 45 day money back guarantee.
• 99.9% uptime guaranteed.
• cPanel and Fantastico

Cons

• Must to upgrade to the Baby Plan to get unlimited domains

Visit http://www.hostgator.com for more information.

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