Host Gator Review

HostGator is one of the world's largest Web hosting companies with more than 1 million hosted domains from small businesses, personal Web pages or Fortune 500 companies. It has more than 160 employees to provide its customers with 24 hours, seven days a week support

The company was established in 2003, and has been awarded 20 awards during its five-year career. Some of the honors received include the Editor’s Choice award from findmyhost.com, 2007 Web Host of the Year from top14webhosts.com and the 5-Star Award from webhostingstuff.com.

Reliability: HostGator makes its client's Web sites accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers. These providers include: Backbone carriers from Global Crossing, UUNET, AT&T, Level3, AboveNet, Savvis, Time Warner and Private Peers. Its network includes Juniper M20 Border Routers, Cisco 6500 Series Distribution Routing Switches, Cisco 6500 Series Aggregation Switches and 100 percent uptime.

Furthermore, HostGator provides a 45-day money back guaranteed with a same day refund for unsatisfied customers.

Support:HostGator says their support is the best in the country. The staff is 100 percent in-house, and can provide support via phone, e-mail or chat.

Price:HostGator offers three different plans depending on what its customer needs. The most inexpensive plan is $4.95 / month and provides 3 million MB to 3,000 GB in bandwich. The $7.95 / month plan provides 6 million MB to 6,000 GB in bandwich. The most expensive hosting plan offered by Host Gator is $12.95 / month and offers unlimited bandwich. HostGator also provides Reseller Hosting and Dedicated Hosting services starting at $24.95 and $174, respectively.

HostGator uses Linux Web hosting, with Windows Hosting coming soon. Its Linux features include:

• Web site builder with 24-hour support, instant backups and instant setup
• Add on / parked domains
• Sub domains
• FTP accounts
• Anonymous FTP
• MySQL Databases
• CGI
• PHP5
• Ruby on Rails
• SSH
• Perl
• Chilisoft ASP
• Python
• SSI
• Cron
• FrontPage
• Curl
• GD
• Image Magick
• Streaming audio / video
• Free module installation
• E-mail POP3 accounts
• Web mail
• E-mail alias
• Auto responders
• Mailing lists
• Catch alls
• Spam assassin
• Mail forwarding
• IMAP Support
• SMTP