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webhogwarts.altervista.org http://webhogwarts.altervista.org/members/frederickamord/groups/my-groups/. Hostgator is a big independently owned hosting company operating from numerous state of the art facilities in Dallas, Texas. Hostgator was started in 2002, ever since they have expanded rapidly and currently host over 400,000 internet sites. They are also widely thought about to be the worlds leading supplier of reseller hosting accounts. At present they provide hosting to over 10,000 specific reseller account consumers.

Hostgator provides numerous various internet hosting packages, and cater to a broad array of clients. From the first time web designer who requires simple, anxiety complimentary hosting for their individual site; all the means through to big corporations, who require specialist committed hosting services.

Hostgator's hosting plans can be split into 3 teams; basic shared hosting plans (suitable for the vast bulk people), reseller hosting plans (these are primarily for people and companies that want to "resell" their account resources to customers of their own), and lastly devoted server plans (these accounts give client their own server, so they do not have to share its resources with anyone else). Very few of us will every need a specialized server so this review will concentrate on the shared hosting plans that Hostgator offer.

Attributes

Hostgator's three major shared hosting strategies are named: "Hatchling" (the entry level strategy priced at $6.95 / month), "Baby" (this is the most popular plan, and it is most likely to satisfy the requirements of a really large range of customers), and "Swamp" (similar as the "Child" plan, however with increases in bandwidth and disk area, priced at $14.95 / month).

For a full list of functions and a side by side contrast of all hosting strategies you should go to Hostgator's website below. Below is a review of the most important features of the "Child" plan, this is most likely the most suitable plan for most individuals, and it is our favorite strategy.

Disk space 100GB - This quantity has been recently updated by Hostgator from 5GB to an enormous 100GB. All users are likely to discover it impossible to exhaust this amount of disk space.

Bandwidth 1000GB/month - Also increased is the bandwidth allotment, from 75GB to a seemingly extreme 1000GB. Once again virtually absolutely no opportunity of making use of all that, however it's good to understand that you definitely won't be dealing with additional charges for going over your restriction, even if you have an extremely busy site(s).

Website Studio website builder - This is a fantastic cost-free program that allows you to build your site from scratch. There is no need to take my word for it, as Hostgator provides us with a trial variation of the software on their site!

Limitless add-on domains - This actually is the attract attention function of this hosting strategy (the "Hatchling" plan just allows 1 domain), and allows you to host as lots of internet sites as you such as on a single account, at no additional expense. All your websites then share your account resources. This permits you to make full use of your huge bandwidth and disk area allowances, and host multiple internet sites at a portion of the typical expense. Fantastic!

99.9 % Uptime guarantee - This essentially tells us that Hostgator is a major host offering a trusted service. If uptime drops below this figure in any offered month then you don't pay for that months hosting, it's as simple as that! We would never ever think about utilizing a host that did not offer a strong uptime guarantee; this is simply since there is just one good reason a host will not offer an uptime guarantee - unreliable uptime!

30 Day refund guarantee - This has become a pretty standard function in the internet hosting area, though it's nice to have for added comfort.

Immediate setup - The majority of hosting companies take 24-48 hours to setup your account however Hostgator promises to have you going in under 15 minutes (they do not charge a setup charge either)!

Limitless MySQL data sources - This is extremely useful since each Fantastico (see below) script requires its own MySQL database.

Fantastico DeLuxe - This impressive program enables you to instantly install over 50 scripts through your control board. Scripts include blogs, online forums, galleries, buying carts, and more.

Endless e-mail accounts - Permits you to have as numerous, or as couple of, various e-mail addresses as you like.

It consists of numerous features and provides excellent performance. Finest of all, there is a full working demo on the Hostgator site, so you can check it out yourself!

Customer support and technical support

Hostgator offers us 24/7 phone support, and live online chat. The fact that you are provided 2 choices to receive instant technical support at any time of the day is great. Our experience has actually always been very good when calling Hostgator, their operatives are really respectful and most importantly they seem to know their stuff when handling technical concerns. We constantly advise contacting them yourself prior to signing up. Ask them a concern and see if you're excited by their feedback. This constantly informs you a lot about a business!

Efficiency

The performance from Hostgator's servers is excellent! Hostgator location much tighter limitations on the variety of sites sharing the same server compared with most various other shared hosting companies. This provides higher reliability since less pressure is put on the servers; and it likewise greatly improves the rate at which your internet pages run.

Server performance is an additional among the essential areas where Hostgator identify themselves from the crowd of various other internet hosts.

Our decision

Overall there is so much to such as about the way Hostgator does company, they really do appear to have a great grasp on exactly what the typical customer requires from an internet hosting company. Rarely do you come throughout reports of dissatisfied Hostgator customers, and after hosting with them ourselves we now know why! At just $9.95 / month for the "Baby" strategy (which includes unrestricted domains); anybody looking to host even more than one website has a pretty simple decision to make.