Reader HostGator Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
HostGator Internet Service Provider (ISP) Review
HostGator was founded by Brent Oxley, now President and CEO, whilst at Florida Atlantic University in 2002. The company is based in Houston, Texas, with more than 7,000 servers under management. HostGator has more than 225,000 customers and hosts over two million domains making up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic in more than 170 countries.
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.
Features
HostGator shared hosting offers unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin Access, unlimited POP3 Email Accounts with SMTP, unlimited Autoresponders and FREE setup with easy 1 click software installs of WordPress. and FREE SiteBuilder and SiteStudio Website Building Tools. They have lots of FREE website templates and scripts plus Google Adwords Credits. The HostGator community forum has lots of video tutorials and help articles available.
The control panel included with HostGator is cPanel, always a winner with me. Fantastico, Instant Shopping Carts, Blogs, Portals, Forums, Counters, Formmail is also available.
HostGator gives a 45 Day Money Back Guarantee and a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. Their customer support is 24/7 via phone and Ticket System email and always gives a high level of service. Their service includes automatic, weekly off-site data backups but personally I wouldn’t rely on this and would recommend you do your own backups daily.
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Conclusion
HostGator are not the cheapest host around, you have to pay for your domain name which many hosts give for free but they are one of the world’s top good web hosting company in my opinion. They do have lots of mixed reviews on their uptime reliability, though do get this in perspective.
To be fair all the web hosting services reviewed here are of comparable quality and all give a quality service so you won’t go wrong by choosing any of them. But, each service has qualities which may or may not be what you require so review each web hosting service and make your choice based on your requirements.
- There are web hosting services which are far beyond my capabilities and understanding so I have not even attempted to review such services.
- I required a web site that could be up and running in less then a day with very little prior knowledge. I needed something where the web hosting experts provided most of the background work so I could concentrate on my web site.
- Also, the offers made by each ISP change weekly, so please check each ISP prior to making a commitment.
Although each ISP has many offers which vary over time I have tried to be specific to the requirements above and ignored items such as FREE Photo Albums etc. as these can be added to most sites by downloading and installing the appropriate scripts.
If you have any comment, corrections or items you think should be added to the listings please do not hesitate to let me know.