Hostgator is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world with close to 2 million domains hosted on shared and reseller accounts. They were formed in 2002 and have over 5000 servers under management.
Whilst this is all well and good from their customers there are more important things to consider. It is a budget hosting company with an excellent price structure. The most basic accounts start at $3.95 a month going up to 412.95 for a business account.
The plans are fully flexible and all of them offer unlimited domains, bandwidth and disk space.The accounts also all come with CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl,MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP as well as Cpanel access.
However, despite this, there are two other factors by which I judge Hostgator and that tell me whether it is a company that I want to run my business sites through.
Initially, I look at the speed with which my sites load, or server speed. it's not good having a well designed site with great content if it takes forever to load. With host gator this has never been a problem and I am always easily able to get in touch with the support teams, whether it's online or through the phone.
There is no long term contract to sign. That means that when you open an account it can be canceled at any time. They are even prepared to give your money back up to 45 days after you have signed on if for some reason you do not want to continue with their service.
Next, is the fact that Hostgator are environmentally aware and concerned. I share the same principles and have been using renewable energy sources for my power for several years now. They do the same and combine this with the most energy efficient servers on the market as well.
For me this means I am getting the complete deal, a good company at a cheap price and something that allows me to run my business in line with my conscience. To me it is a very good match, that I hope you will see as well.
Whilst this is all well and good from their customers there are more important things to consider. It is a budget hosting company with an excellent price structure. The most basic accounts start at $3.95 a month going up to 412.95 for a business account.
The plans are fully flexible and all of them offer unlimited domains, bandwidth and disk space.The accounts also all come with CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl,MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP as well as Cpanel access.
However, despite this, there are two other factors by which I judge Hostgator and that tell me whether it is a company that I want to run my business sites through.
Initially, I look at the speed with which my sites load, or server speed. it's not good having a well designed site with great content if it takes forever to load. With host gator this has never been a problem and I am always easily able to get in touch with the support teams, whether it's online or through the phone.
There is no long term contract to sign. That means that when you open an account it can be canceled at any time. They are even prepared to give your money back up to 45 days after you have signed on if for some reason you do not want to continue with their service.
Next, is the fact that Hostgator are environmentally aware and concerned. I share the same principles and have been using renewable energy sources for my power for several years now. They do the same and combine this with the most energy efficient servers on the market as well.
For me this means I am getting the complete deal, a good company at a cheap price and something that allows me to run my business in line with my conscience. To me it is a very good match, that I hope you will see as well.
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