Best HostGator Web Hosting Plan

Why all the hassles setting up a full website, blog software nowadays can do almost every thing you need in a basic website.

Why WordPress for your blog?

To start blogging at Hostgator, you first need to setup your blogging software. For our case, I’ll take WordPress for example.

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database. It’s an excellent open-source and free blogging software that should soon or later take over all its competitors.

As Hostgator already has Fantastico embedded in the control panel system, we won’t need to install WordPress manually. All you need is to have the idea on the naming of your blog as well as where to install it.

Installing WordPress at Hostgator

Click “Fantastico” at the front page of your cPanel. Fantastico is a wonderful tools that enable you to install series of web applications in just a few clicks. phpBB, Joomla, and WordPress is some of the famous one listed in Fantastico library.

When you’re in, select WordPress – you’ll get a screen (on your right) showing a short description on WordPress, disk space required for installation, all WordPress installation on your account, and a link named “new installation”.

As you might be aware, Hostgator’s currently serving WordPress version 2.6 where the latest version is 2.6.1 (just released mid August).

To install, click on the “New Installation”.

Put in the necessary details – blog names, admin username, password, blog location… etc. Leave blank at the folder column in case you wish to have your blog installed at your root folder (meaning, you want the homepage of your blog to appear at the first page of your website). Click “Install WordPress” when you’re ready, the process will be done within seconds, and… you are DONE! Yup, with the help of Fantastico, it’s just that simple.

If you wish to have your installation details to be kept in email, you can input an email (same or different from what you just registered) and the system will automatically send you the details.

More about WordPress, visit here.

As many other hosting review websites I am currently running, HostgatorSecretRevealed.com is hosted on Hostgator it self for the review purpose. As the website had been setup for some time (though not much content had been loaded up yet), I think it’s time to have a sneak peep on the hosting server performance.

I’ll make a quick wrap up here:

The server, hosting this website, on Hostgator had been doing good for the past few months. Server is 100% up from my observation, quick server load time, and there’s plenty of space for disk storage.

Hostgator Server Status

A quick look on the server status that I just screen captured:

Everything seems cool but well, this is just a start! I’ll be updating more if I found anything not right with the hosting services.

To build your very first website could be something difficult. You have to figure out many aspects in building a website.

For instance, you have to get a domain name for starters. After that? What should you do next? Nowadays, web hosting companies have thought and provide you with great solution so that building a website can be very easy. All this is possible with hosting companies that provides user friendly style of service.

One of those companies worth mentioning is HostGator.

Hostgator is considered as the best provider around for their outstanding service and user friendly features. All you need is a browser open and follow the steps explained by the host. To make a website with great features, you don’t have to be technology expert.

Registering a hosting account at Hostgator

To start you own website with HostGator, just visit their website and click on the ‘Order Now’ icon.

Then, just follow the steps by choosing a domain name. Then select the ‘Baby’ when you are asked to choose a package. This ‘Baby’ package will cost you $9.95 per month. This price is the best offer available in the market. It is unbeatable.

After doing the things above, go to this link ftp://theusernameyouchose@thedomainnameyouchose.com. using Internet Explorer. Replace the username with your username during your sign up with HostGator.

Uploading stuffs to Hostgator

You must also replace the domain name with the one you chose during your sign up. Once you have done that, just enter and proceed. (Alternatively, you can as well use the web uploader available at cPanel – it can be reached by clicking into ‘File Manager’ as shown in the figure).

What will happen is a window will pop up and will require you to enter your username and password that you chose at HostGator. The maximum numbers of character allowed for your username is 8. Anything more than 8 characters will be truncated automatically.

What you can expect next is a window that pops out. It will be a window that contains many yellow folders. Click on the one that says “public_html”. Minimize this window and select the webfiles (for example, the index.html page) from your desktop to the folder in HostGator. Once it’s done, you website is done. Use your normal browser and visit your website to do a check.

Well of course hosting/starting a website involve a lot more than this but the article should give you a brief image on how things work.