Today’s review is gonna be about Hostgator, web hosting that I have used in the past for my old blog RichardArellano.name and Majin Planet. So you might want to know some basics about web hosting. The first thing I want to tell you, is there is no such thing as ‘unlimited’ anything when it comes to hard drive space and bandwidth. This is something that many web hosting now claim to offer. Mostly in terms of shared hosting, I want to stress this I’m speaking about their shared hosting given that is what I was using.
I want to also point out right off the bat that I’m giving Hostgator a good review, I think that for what they offer they do stand far above the others and would recommend them to anyone. As you can tell I have banner’s up for their hosting, but that’s not to say they don’t have their flaws, like anything as you as the customer looking for hosting can decide.
Hostgator is a privately owned web hosting company founded in 2002. According to Hostgator official claims, they provide hosting service for more than 1,000,000 websites and lead in hosting reseller accounts with over 20,000 resellers.
The biggest feature for any web hosting comes down to quality of their support. My current hosting, Hawkhosting offer really quality support and what’s more is I never EVER have any issues. The main reason I ran into any sort of issue with Hostgator was you can guess, Majin Planet and simply keeping the site online due to traffic.
So what’s so special about Hostgator?
- Reliable server with guaranteed 99.9% uptime
- Host unlimited domain
- Unlimited MySQL and POP3 email account
- Room to grow
- Environment Friendly
You think for the price tags of their servers, there is no way you could really host unlimited like that. Also 99.9% uptime is pretty much just a tag all hosting company have. Because the truth is, if the servers go down, they are down. In any given time frame, within a year’s time if you try to count how many times your server went down, counting downtime they do, installing new software, reboots, etc is it really 99% uptime? I’ll leave that one for you to decided.
In the end, all of this is just being picky and you want start a blog, you don’t want use blogger. Having more control over your content, what you have and the service is far more than anything. That is why I recommend using hosting, even if its cheap hosting. They have a ton of Promotions giveaways and codes, more than any hosting I’ve seen in my early days with DellHost.
Hostgator is a really good host, they give you what you pay for, if your website is small, growing and your just starting out. If your someone who needs something with more power, your likely not looking for shared hosting. They do offer their own servers at a cost but I can’t speak on that. What I will tell the reason I left was due to my website out grew them. You might say they have room to grow, they do but I outgrew shared hosting and I was not willing to pay 200+ a month for a web server when I didn’t feel just in doing so.
Have you ever used Hostgator? I want know what your opinion, so leave me a comment below.
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