Hostgator webhosting review
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by: mitjakugnic11
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 Time: 5:51 PM
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Presently Hostgator provides home to around 2,500,000 domain names and has more than 300 employees. They offer 45 day money back guarantee. They also assure your website will be available 99.9% of time. They're also considered an environment friendly website hosting, which means their web servers are highly effective and they also use renewable energy. Their support is considered the best in market! You can request live chat help any time of day or night and same goes for phone help. Ticket support is also available.
They offer a number of dedicated, shared and reseller web hosting plans, so everyone can find something for theirselves. All their plans include: unlimited disk space, bandwith, MySQL databases, sub domains, FTP accounts, email accounts and a very easy control panel. In addition to all that you will get sitebuilding software, over 4500 themes, 50$ Google Adwords Credit and preprepared scripts. All major programming languages are supported. Among those are: PHP, CGI, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails and they're beta testing ASP support.
Hostgator email accounts are also surprisingly good. You will get unlimited email accounts that can be accessed both via POP3 or IMAP (which also means, you can receive your e-mail right to your phone) protocol. Number of webmail apps are offered for those who need it: Horde, SquirrelMail and my personal favorite RoundCube. In addition they provide junk e-mail prevention system called SpamAssassin which is highly easy to customize and configurable.
They've received numerous prizes in their 7+ years of providing web hosting services. Some of those are: About.com 2010 Reader's Choice Award, Reviewhut.com's Best WebHost of 2008 Award, HostReview.com TOP 10 Budget Hosting Award for years 2008 and 2009. They were also named 21st Fastest Growing Private Company in America in year 2008 and 239th Fastest Growing Private Company in America by Inc.
Rates vary from 4.95$/mo for cheapest shared plan right up to 374$/mo for dedicated server. Every so often they promote their services by offering vouchers. With those coupons you can save lot of money. For example - first month of shared hosting is totally free with the right coupon. You can also save 20% on final price or get 25$ off. Discount rates vary from 1.79$ for 1 month Hatchling plan up to 503.88$ for 1 year VPS.
About the Author
Mitja Kugnic is a computer expert performing as a Senior Developer in a very reputable company. He finds Hostgator to be a really good webhosting and so he commonly recommends Host Gator to his customers.
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