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HOSTGATOR REVIEW
HostGator was founded in 2002, and grew to become a leader in the market of reseller hosting. Based out of Boca Raton, Florida, they also offer shared and dedicated server hosting. |
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| One of their unique qualities is that they provide access to the industry leading SiteStudio website designer, which is an extremely easy program to use to help even the greenest beginner with their website development. Also priding themselves on customer care and approval, HostGator has received many positive customer reviews. |
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Price Value |
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| Although HostGator specializes in reseller hosting, they also offer reasonably priced shared and dedicated server hosting plans. Their reseller plans are offered for prices ranging from $24.95 to $99.95 per month, and their Dedicated Server plans range from $174.00 to $374.00 per month. Accompanied with their recently upgraded Hatchling plan for shared hosting at unlimited disk space and bandwidth at $4.95/month, and you have one company that wants to remain competitive in the web-hosting market. Also included in these packages are features such free set-up, unlimited MySQL databases, SpamAssasin software that will help reduce the amount of junk email received, 99.9% uptime, and a 45-day money-back guarantee. |
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Reliability |
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| HostGator has chosen The Planet, located in Dallas, Texas, to house their data center. The Planet boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space, and features state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems. This facility is accompanied with Multiple TXU electrical grids, 4800 volts of input power, DataTrax monitoring software for the whole data center infrastructure, and a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers. When you consider all of these features, HostGator's customers have peace of mind regarding the security and reliability of their servers. |
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Control Panel |
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| HostGator employs the industry standard control panel, cPanel. This control panel is one of the best in the industry, and has over 39 scripts that can be installed. It is also relatively easy to use, as it provides more than one million end users the ability to install dozens of leading open source accompanied with flash movies for instant tutorials. Your package will also include Fantastico, the leading auto-installer for cPanel servers. Fantastico is equipped with more than 10,000 installations, and content management systems that a user can integrate into their web space swiftly. |
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Customer Service |
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| HostGator is becoming one of the leading companies that offer quick responses and a personal touch to their support system. They present 24/7/365 phone support, online chat, fax, peer support forums, and a wide variety of CPanel flash movies. Most customers agree that HostGator is very responsive and helpful, fixing problems easily. |
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HOST RATINGS |
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| Price |
8.0/10 |
| Performance |
8.5/10 |
| Reliability |
8.5/10 |
| Support |
8.5/10 |
| Control Panel |
8.0/10 |
| User Feedback |
8.5/10 |
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| TOTAL SCORE |
83.0% |
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