About HostGator

HostGator Editor’s Review:

About/History
 
HostGator was founded in 2002 and has quickly grown into one of the largest web hosting companies in the world. HostGator now hosts over 6.5 million domains and has well over 600 employees. HostGator has numerous times been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the US, making INC. Magazine’s list (as high as the 21st fastest growing company in American and the #1 fastest growing in Texas).
 
HostGator currently has 2 offices, 1 in Houston, Texas and 1 in Austin, Texas.
 
Services/Packages
 
HostGator is one of the rare, large web hosting companies that offers all different types of services to meet any needs your site may have. Where many hosting companies are focusing on only budget, shared hosting services, HostGator is offering Shared hosting, Windows / ASP Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Servers (both Linux and Windows).
 
HostGator’s Shared hosting packages offer unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth and 2 of the shared packages offer unlimited domains as well. One of the unique things about HostGator is that they allow you to sign up for monthly plans instead of requiring yearly and longer packages. These of course come with all of the 1 click installations of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and more. HostGator uses cPanel for their standard shared hosting control panel.
HostGator is one of, if not the largest Reseller Hosting provider in the world. Early on, they became very well known and established in the Reseller Hosting market. Each of HostGator’s Reseller Hosting plans comes with the ability to host Unlimited Domains, private nameservers and comes with many FREE extras like WHMCS and A free Enom Domain Name Reseller Account.
 
VPS Hosting is somewhat of a newer offering for HostGator. They have extremely competitive VPS Hosting packages that are gaining a lot of attention, utilizing Virtuozzo Power Panel and cPanel and they come (depending on the package purchased) fully managed.
 
HostGator Dedicated Servers are well known for their great specifications, features and that they’re fully managed and backed by the amazing 24/7 HostGator support team.
 
Price/Value
 
HostGator offers extremely competitive and affordable pricing on all of their hosting services. They may not be the absolute cheapest provider out there, but you definitely get what you pay for with their amazing 24/7 email, live chat and telephone support.
 

• Their shared hosting packages start as low as $3.96/month
  Reseller packages start as low as $19.96
  VPS Packages start as low as $15.95
  Dedicated Servers start as low as $139

 
Performance and Reliability
 
HostGator offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. In all of our testing, they have met and exceeded this guarantee.
HostGator receives continual praise and great press about their speeds and performance as well as their reliability, receiving numerous host of the year awards.
 
Support
 
HostGator is known for their support. They have built their name and can attribute a large amount of their continual, large growth to the wonderful level of support and service they offer to their client base.
HostGator has 24/7 USA Based Email (ticket), Live chat and Toll Free Phone support available for every client.
They handle over 500,000 inquiries every month, with an average rating of 9/10 or higher.
 
HostGator even offers assistance and answers questions across their social media properties as well via Facebook and Twitter.
 
HostGator definitely does things right when it comes to service and support!
 
Other:
 
HostGator has many additional bonuses for clients. $100 Google Adwords Voucher, $25 Yahoo/Bing Advertising Voucher, 4500 pre-made templates for you to use, an easy to use website builder and a 45 day money back guarantee. HostGator’s whole package offering is easily one of the best you can find.
 
Conclusion
 
HostGator is a Hosting Review Editor’s Top Choice for each of the hosting services they offer.
 
You simply can’t go wrong with HostGator and we highly recommend their services.
 
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