Host With HostGator

A while ago I wrote about the company I registered my domain name with, which was GoDaddy. As I recently posted, I have changed web hosts. I spent around 3 or 4 days trying to find a new host and looked for reviews and the perfect plan that I would host my website on. I have had many hosts before HostGator and there are many things I was concerned about when choosing my host. There are many hosts I have looked at and they offer great plans, great prices, but when you read the fine print you see that they are great prices because they are maybe a 12 month contract for example. I do not want this, I want to be able to pay monthly and have control over my payments, if I can not pay for that month then I simply wont have the hosting.

I’ve known about HostGator for around a year and I do not know why I did not start using their hosting services sooner! I was hoping the process of moving from my old host to HostGator would have been a simple process but there were a few problems and my website had been down for quite a while until I fixed things. Once my HostGator account had been set up, their 24 hour support service was more than happy to help transfer my site for free and resolve any problems I had. I had many methods of receiving support from the HostGator team as shown below.

HostGator Control Panel

One that stood out to me most was the ‘Live Support’. This gave me the satisfaction and comfort that I knew a member of staff would be there to assist me whenever I needed help. The Live Support meant I got an instant response and as I was trying to get my site up as quick as possible again, this suited me greatly. The member of the team spent upto around 2 hours with me, going through everything that needed to be fixed. Needless to say I was extremely impressed with this.

How Much Do I Get and How Much For?
HostGator offers extremely competitive rates and amounts of space that you might not even be capable of using it all! The Hatchling plan that works out at $7.95 (paid monthly) for 350GB of web space and 3,000GB bandwidth! Wow! If you actually need something more powerful, their shared hosting plans go upto 1,000GB of web space and UNLIMITED bandwidth. You can get their plans cheaper if you pay in advance to. With your hosting you are given the best hosting panel on the web, Cpanel and with that comes Fantastico a script library that assists you without any technical knowledge required where you can install 52 different types of scripts. The amount of free stuff you get being a HostGator customer is amazing. They have won awards over the 5 years they have been in business for this amazing stuff you know. If you are not pleased with their service there is even a 45-day money back guarantee.

What Else do They Offer?
If your interested in reselling web space, you can look into buying a reseller starting from $24.95 each month or you can go to the next level and buy a dedicated server. Another thing I found out after looking around, as a customer I get access to 4,500 templates absolutely free! As well as domain registration services HostGator also offer the a nice affiliate program for you to participate in.