Hostgator Web Hosting Reviews

HostGator has been in business since 2002 as a webhost and is quite famous due to its reliable service. In recent times webhost is at 21st spot amongst the fastest growing companies in the country. Webhosting provided by HostGator is secure, economical and speedy. A huge figure of 8 million domains clearly explains about the reputation of HostGator and its efficient services are highly appreciated by the customers. Operational in almost 200 countries across the globe, HostGator offers some economical packages for business as well as personal users.

One of the main highlights of HostGator easily seen on their homepage is offering highly economical hosting to everyone. And they are doing their best in this regard. Hatching plan referred to as the basic plan starts with unlimited bandwidth, space, sub-domains and more. It begins at $3.96 per month with lot of offers. Next pricing plan is called a “Baby plan” which starts at $6.36 per month and includes unlimited parked domains, unlimited domain hosting, and admittance to dedicated IP options. For $10.36 per month, a business plan is presented with free SSL and dedicated ISP along with a very own toll free number for user.

It is a Houston Texas based company with its data centers also residing there. With 24/7 monitoring, high level security and top performance equipments the data centers are simply the best available. Due to all facilities available the company ensures 99.99% uptime guarantee. HostGator is one of the top hosting companies that believe in thinking green. The company is spending a lot in alternative energy sources; HostGator simply uses this energy in their regular power consumption. Redundant power is used to make sure that the system is running smoothly even in case of any unpredictable disaster and power loss.

Cpanel provided by HostGator is one of the renowned control panels that have become a standard solution. In case the customer doesn’t know about the cpanel and finds any difficulty in using it, expert staff is available to help out and sort the queries. Cpanel is quite famous in assisting and providing control for domains, emails, website accounts and more. Other than this, HostGator provides monitoring capabilities, statistic generator, and management capabilities. For easy to use content management for sites, HostGator provides Fantastico bundled with Cpanel.

A survey was held in 2008 by HostGator between customers to review Product Customer satisfaction. A huge number of customers – almost 90% were satisfied with the offers, features and hosting services of the company. HostGator’s repute is associated with their high level customer support. In case of any query the customers can freely contact the customer support staff through fax, live chat, email ticket system and telephone. The customer finds it pleasing to find large data base of tutorials and videos, FAQ, help sections, forums and other available informational articles to guide users. Most clients agree that HostGator gives priority to its clients; the customer support staff is highly skilled and efficient in problem solving and satisfying customers.