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Overall: 4.81
 

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Hostgator was founded by Brent Oxley in his college dorm back in 2002. The Gator grew from a one-man operation to one with hundreds of employees over the years; and was ranked 21st on Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company in year 2008, 239th on Inc. 5000 in year 2009. Brent sold the company was sold to Endurance International Group (EIG) for, unofficial figure, $225 million in 2012.

HostGator is one of the most recognizable and most-used website hosts. It excels in hosting flexibility by providing three different plans under a shared server umbrella. In consideration of how most small businesses start buying a monthly service and an initial domain, we reviewed the basic Hatchling plan and compared it to competitors’ basic plans. Based on the number of features, it ranks near the upper crust of the best shared hosting services.

The basic hosting plans are generally good, with a few distinct omissions. The Hatchling plan provides unlimited bandwidth, disk space, email accounts and MySQL databases, yet you are only allowed to run one URL per account. This, of course, changes as you upgrade. Also, you cannot park any domain names.


The money back guarantee is slightly better than average; HostGator allows 45 days to get your monthly hosting cost back, minus the one-time cost of the domain. You can cancel at any point in the contract, but you won't get your money back for the month you cancel in after the guarantee period.

 

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HostGator review by Kian McDonald

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Overall: 5.00
 

Hostgator offers 3 packages for shared hosting and I chose to be subscribed to the baby plan because it gave me unlimited space, bandwidth, emails and databases and most importantly I can host unlimited number of domains for less than 9.95 dollars per month. I have hosted more than ten websites and still adding more for the six months I have been their client and so far so good.

The second important aspect that makes me love HostGator is the CHAT WITH LIVE PERSON facility. Whether you are a professional web developer or a newbie like I was a few months ago you will always need this feature. I have contacted them on close to six times and in all the occasions they have lived up to my expectations. The most notable one that I would love to highlight in my review is one time I had messed with the URL structure of my clients website and went ahead to save the settings. I was unable to login and for the few time I was all in tension as the website was busy one and I would start to receive calls from the client demanding an explanation. I hit the live support button and within a minute I was assisted by a technical support customer care who solved my problem from his side and the site was up and running again. That was and remains my best moments with Hostgator.

I have not noticed any downtime with Hostgator for the days I have hosted with them. My personal website which I have jetpack notification activated which monitors and notify you when the website is down is yet to give me a bad warning unlike another website I host with namecheap that gives me a notification at least once in two weeks.

The Hostgator Cpanel is full of features some of which I have not used despite them being there and available for use by me. My most favorite feature is the quick install facility that enables anyone even with the minimal skills to install WordPress in a minute.

Speed is excellent while it's hard to receive an error while working on your projects unlike in other company you keep on getting internal server error

The baby package is a little bit expensive compared to most of the companies but for the services you receive with HostGator you get the value for your money. I can confidently recommend this company to anyone who wants to host a few domains under one hosting company or a relatively heavy website!!!

HostGator review by Imogen Payne

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Overall: 4.63
 

I have experience of buying Hostgator's WordPress shared hosting plan for two years. I will deliberately call it as premier web hosting company of world due to following reason.

1: affordable price

2: extensive promotions and discounts

3: maximum features offered

4: very impressive uptime

5: 24/7 available support team

6: attractive cpanel

7: 1click script installing

8: fast server speed

when i bought web hosting i was advised to go for other premier web hosting companies but i bought plan from host gator due to impressive discount of 60% off on first month. I was offered this discount twice during my relation of customer with hostgator. their customer support team reply to every query and also many times video support is available. My page speed was higher than many other sites, server up time was very satisfactory. It offered hosting on their Texas based server and i did not experienced any technical flaw and interruption in their servers. I ended off my contract with host gator due to some business reasons but it was great journey of excellency which give me immense professional pleasure due to professional excellency achieved by this company. I would also like to mention that some times hostgator created problems due to cache running plugins of WordPress on my website but when support desk was contacted problem was resolved. It was my experience with hostgator which was enough good to encourage other people to go for hostgator webhosting.

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