HostGator is one of the largest web hosting site on the web, founded in 2002, is the leading  web hosting provider in the world. Over 1,000,000 domain names are hosted through HostGator with more than 5000 servers.

The success of the company can be directly related to their excellent customer support and to the affordability of their plans. Currently HostGator offers three distinct web hosting pans: Hatchling, Baby, and Swamp. This host also offers multiple dedicated hosting plans.

HostGator is best known for their exceptional web hosting reseller plan. For only $24.95 you can purchase a quality reseller account and begin earning an unlimited income by selling your own web hosting. HostGator’s reseller program is very easy to use and has won multiple awards including our very own, "Best Reseller Web Hosting Award".

HostGator Features
Host Unlimited Websites
Unlimited Disk Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
45 Day Money Back Guarantee
CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl
MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP
FREE Site Builder
cPanel Hosting
24/7/365 Upgraded Support (Live Chat)
No Contracts or Hidden Fees
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HostGator offers linux hosting only(even though they are expected to start windows hosting in the near future). All their packages come with all the features needed for a serious website. Baby and Swamp packages allow unlimited domains(add on), which makes a lot of sense if you have multiple websites. They use cPanel, which is the best control panel around. You get Fantastico script installer which will install most of the popular open source scripts with few clicks.

They support PHP4 & 5, SSH, Cron jobs, Python, Ruby On Rails etc. Also, all the packages include enough POP3 accounts(20 for Hatchling and unlimited for others).

Hostgator Performance Review
HostGator host their sites on top-of-the-line Dual Xeon servers in their data centers (thePlanet) at Dallas. The data centers are well equipped and connects to 10 backbone  providers. They offer 99.9% uptime Guarantee which is the industry standard.

We started realtime testing of hostgator uptime on Jun 2007. The test is done on a site hosted with hostgator, using a third party uptime monitor service. Overall, hostgator had been the best performing host from all the hosts monitored. They provided consistently high uptime, month after month. There has never been a single case of site being down for more than 10 minutes at a stretch. Hostgator indeed lived up to their reputation.

Hostgator Price Value
They have three hosting packages starting from Hatchling ($6.95 pm) to Swamp ($14.95 pm). The price is reasonable for the features and space/bandwidth provided. Recently Hostgator increased the space and bandwidth to unimaginable levels. They also reduced the price of all plans, by introducing 24 and 34 month pre-payment options. The monthly payment now have a small set up charge and is costlier than 12 month rates. Our advice – don’t get excited by the unlimited space and bandwidth. They do have limits on file numbers(inodes) and CPU usage to  make sure that only reasonable sized accounts remains in the shared servers. But for any site with a reasonable traffic, hostgator plans are more than sufficient. You obviously can not expect a site with few million page views a month to run on a shared host, no matter what bandwidth they offer.

Overall, hostgator is fair priced and provides enough resources for a shared web host.

Hostgator Coupon
Hostgator has a promotion running at the moment. The coupon code LUCKY offers 20%  discount on initial order amount. That means the users who select yearly billing get a much better discount compared to those who opt for a monthly billing.

If you prefer monthly billing, coupon code wordpress might work better as it makes the first month bill just $0.01.

All other coupon codes available on the net does exactly one of the above. So choose one of the codes above depending on your billing amount.

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Hostgator Support Review
Hostgator offers 24/7/365 toll free support. In addition, they have Ticket System, Knowledge base, tutorials etc. Also they have an active forum which helps in fixing most normal issues. Support tickets are fast, often response will be made in less couple of hours.

HostGator – Award Winning:
Editors’ Choice Award- 2008
#1 Reseller Web Hosting – 2008
Best Reseller Web Hosting – 2008
Web Host Of The Year – 2007
Best Reseller Web Hosting – 2005
Top 10 Web Hosting
Best Reseller Web Hosting
Best Web Host Award

Other news:

Who’s the boss behind Hostgator?

Brent Oxley is the founder and current CEO of Hostgator. 

When Hostgator started off their business?

Hostgator started off their business back in year 2000. Hostgator’s current success is quite an amazing story as the company is actually an one-man-operation company based in Brent’s (the founder) university dorm room at Florida Atlantic University.
Hostgator office

What is the size of Hostgator at current time?

Hostgator grew fast, very fast. They were first started with just 3 servers and are now running on over 5,000 servers. The company’s HQ recently moved into a new 20,000 square foot office building in Houston, Texas and has added more than 150 employees.

The success of the company is recognized when they were named one of the fastest growing private companies in United States (ranked 21st for nation and ranked 2nd in Texas) by Inc. Magazine.

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