Shared Hosting

Hostgator Hosting

Here is my first review of shared hosting company HostGator. Hostgator is USA based company headquatered in Houston, Texas, top web hosting provider. Offers shared, reseller, vps and dedicated servers. There is room to grow in case your site grows in popularity. There three shared plans: hatchling, baby and business. The difference between the three is on hatchling you can host only one domain, and on business and baby you can host unlimited domains. Plus on business plan you  get free toll-free number, ssl certificate and dedicated IP address. All other features are the same: unlimited space, bandwidth, cpanel control panel, PHP, MySQL databases, FTP, Fantastico one click installer, 45 day money-back guarantee and lots of others. The best plan for you would be the baby plan if you want a personal website, or business for company.

HostGator Support

Hostgator offers ticket (e-mail), phone, live chat and community support. Support have been excellent. In my 2 years time, I have had 2-3 problems so far, and all tickets have been answered within 30 minutes. Operators have been nice and knew what they were doing.

HostGator Uptime

On my test site rsmkd.com, the uptime have been great always > 99.9% as guaranteed. Here is a live link of the monitor report.

Overall Rating

Hostgator have been excellent host. My test site have showed good response time and uptime. There are lots of features available, you get what you pay for. My rating is 10/10.

HostGator Coupon

If you want to test hostgator use this coupon “freemonth” and you will get the first month for $0.01 for the baby hosting plan.