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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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