January 28, 2008 • Category: Reviews

General

HostGator is an independent hosting company created by Brent Oxley. Today they are one of the world's 10 largest hosting companies, but despite the growth, he still takes personal involvement in customer satisfaction and will often handle concerns personally.

Customers: 90,000 +
Hosted domains: 700,000 +
Created: 2002
CEO: Brent Oxley

User experience

Our Host Gator test site showed good response and uptimes.

Follow up:

* Control panel: cPanel 10 -- We would have appreciated cPanel 11.
* Fantastico Deluxe - Up to date

PhpMyAdmin is not available through cPanel so if you want to administer your MySQL databases online you will have to install it yourself.

We were able to perform up to 6 simultaneous FTP upload which makes sites updates fast and easy.

Technical specs

PHP version: 5.2.5 -- Up to date.
MySQL version: 5.0.45 -- Up to date.
GD library: 2.0.34 -- Up to date.

(Section updated on May 1st, 08)

Customer satisfaction

Overall, customers feedback shows they are generally satisfied with HostGator.

The one distinctive feature that makes them choose HostGator is being able to pay monthly.

Security

HostGator is running mod_suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

Warning: HostGator's pricing does not necessarily vary linearly with the length of the plan. Refer to the table below for details.

	Hatchling	Baby	Swamp
Monthly fee (× 1 mo)	$8.95	$9.95	$14.95
Monthly fee (× 6 mo)	-	$9.95	$14.95
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	$6.95	$9.95	$14.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$5.95	$8.95	$13.95
Monthly fee (× 36 mo)	$4.95	$7.95	$12.95
Disk space	350 GB	600 GB	1,000 GB
Transfer (monthly)	3 TB	6 TB	Unlimited
Included domain name	0	0	0
Domains per account	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
MySQL databases	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
b2evo auto install	yes	yes	yes

HostGator is one of the few hosts allowing you to pay monthly without being tied in into a long term contact.

You will get the first month for just a penny with coupon code "b2evo".

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Comment from: BG Dodson [Visitor] · http://www.artshaman.com

I've been a customer of HostGator going on my 3rd year (Hatchling plan)and have always been quite satisfied.

02/10/08 @ 01:03

Comment from: RTFVerterra [Visitor] · http://www.mathalino.com

I am just a hobbyist and website building is not my profession. I choose HostGator because of its monthly payment feature. The CPanel offers a lot, more than I can use. I made a trial and error intallation, I tried Joomla, b2evolution, wordpress phpnuke, and many others. Installation and unsinstallation are just a click of a button. My site is very young and I am new to this website development. Anyway, I only paid $0.01 for my first month of trial and error. No problem encountered so far with my Babay package.

03/08/08 @ 09:14

Comment from: MrHost [Visitor] · http://www.webhostingreview.biz

I tested for my own hostgator and I can say just good things about them. Their hosting company is well known and if you check for hostgator reviews you will get 99.9% of positive reviews (if not 100%).

03/17/08 @ 23:12

Comment from: Julia Allen [Visitor] · http://www.thoughtsnfeelings.com

I switched from 1 and 1 to Host Gator a little over a month ago. I am very happy with Host Gator. I'm a newbie when it comes to anything to do with building a website and the features they provide, and they have been very patient and attentive in helping me figure things out. I like that they have something for everyone no matter what your level of knowledge is. You can start out simple and eventually build your own site.

04/08/08 @ 22:58

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