Best HostGator Web Hosting Plan

The quick answer is ‘YES’. In fact, any ftp client or using the cPanel file manager will do.

How to upload files directly from Dreamweaver?

To upload files directly from Dreamweaver, you have to first configure the server settings in your Dreamweaver file manager. You can do this either by creating a new ‘FTP & RDS Server’ or creating a new ‘site’ that linked to your server via FTP.

Configuration for FTP & RDS Server

Working on the FTP & RDS Server environment allows you to work directly on the files at your server.

Any changes saved will be visible at your website immediately.

Setting up a new ‘FTP & RDS Server’ all you need is to fill in the necessary details like your host FTP address, folder that you wished to FTP, your login details, and the name you wish to put for the server.

Configuration at the ‘Site’ option

On the other hand, you can configure the FTP connection in Dreamweaver while setting up your site at the File Manager. Simply select ‘FTP’ on the remote server connection, fill in all the details like the host FTP address, folder that you wished to FTP as well as your login details and you’re ready to go.

A quick screen cap for your reference:

FTP at Hostgator is easy!

I hope this solved your doubts in FTP-ing files to Hostgator. Do leave your comment in case you have other related questions.

How popular is Hostgator when compare to iPower hosting and Hostmonster?

Well the answer is “not much different” according to Google Insights. A quick check on these three hosting companies for the past four years draw a conclusion that all three of these web hosts are interested by searchers more or less the same recently.

It’s obvious that iPower was leading in the beginning of year 2004 (as they were one of the pioneer); Hostgator and Hostmonster grew exponentially quick and hence, the search trend shown in the graphic below.

Where will Hostgator be in the next 2 years?

Summing up with Hostgator’s recent move in Going Green (using renewable energy to power their servers); I’m expecting the hosting company to continue its strong grow trend and leave the other two behind in one or two year time.

“Does it matter what forum software I use for my site, what won’t Hostgator accept?”

I saw the question not long ago at Hostgator support forum and was very surprise that to learn that there’s certain hosting companies are limiting software usage on their shared hosting servers. I guess these guys are just too afraid that the custom software might eats up all their limited server memory huh?

Well, back to the question, as a user, you can actually install all sort of forum software into your hosting account.

It’s, of course, prohibited if you’re planning to install trojans/viruses into the server but most web applications are acceptable at Hostgator. In our case here, the user wanted to use MyBB for his/her forum and that’s totally fine with Hostgator.

On top of the issue, I actually noticed some other things at Hostgator.

Here’s a screen cap on the dialouge.

Noticed how fast the question got a response at Hostgator forum? It’s 2 minutes away, and you got your question answered! That’s the fastest response I ever seen – and this shows how active is Hostgator forum.

Why does this matter to you?

An active forum matters a lot because this means there’s help whenever you need it.

Imagine that you are stucked or you’re having problem with your web host, you do not want the problem hang halfway there for days! With an active forum around the community, Hostgator customers are sharing their knowledge and helping each other.

Yes. Minority Hostgator accounts might experienced a short server outage on 22nd September as I read outage reports on Hostgator “Server Gator352″.

As Hostgator staffs (Gator David) reported, it seems the outage is caused by networking issue and they were taking immediate action in resolving the issues.

The server didn’t took long to come back as the problem is fixed within half and hour. Referring to the screen-cap below, the Server Gator352 is now back to operational.

Web marketing is so common nowadays. Many people prefer to start their career on internet due to low initial capital and stronger market coverage. If you are one of them who are planning to start your internet business, the first step is to choose a reliable web host. Here, I will recommend Hostgator. Hostgator has three years experience in this market.

Since Hostgator started its business, it able to offered services for high traffic sites, in which this thing was considered mission impossible at that time, but Hostgator could perform it nicely. Three years ago, it was still a small scale web host which only has hundreds of clients. At the time of writing, Hostgator’s customer base exceed thousands and named as one of the fastest growing companies in United States.

Below are some of the attributes which attract customers to choose Hostgator:-

Customer/Aftersales support

A reliable and promising supports and after sales service which not many web hosts can give. Hostgator provides professional solutions to tackle all type of problems in order to let customers do their business without any obstacle. Customer service is always being the first thing they look into before getting any business from customers. They provide a free guidance to their customers. Most of fundamental services are provided to customer free.

Web hosting servers

The simplest way to justify whether a web host is strong or not can be differentiated by numbers of servers. Meaning, the stronger web hosts will have bigger numbers of servers. For Hostgator, it has about 800 servers up to today.

Customer satisfaction

According to reviews and surveys obtained from forums and articles, Hostgator wins a lot of good comments and appraisals from customers not only on packages provided, but also on services given.

Market leader

Hostgator always looking forward to be the market leader in web host business. This spirit has drive to them work hard to provide more satisfying services to customers.

Reseller Service

Hostgator helps customer to get more savings through reseller service which allow hosting of 12 domains.

Zero Downtime

After years of improvements, downtime almost achieves 100% no downtime service.

Free of Charge Account Moving Service

Hostgator provide a free of charge service to customer for moving 20 accounts.

Effective Business modules

Hostgator help customers to overcome problems of setting up business modules. Until now, a lot of business modules were being set up by Hostgator and all of them are proved to working perfectly.

As a conclusion, Hostgator is your good choice for web hosting company. Since established until today, tons of good comments have clearly proved that Hostgator is a well known, prominent and reliable web host. Plenty of strengths like large web space, strong supports and zero downtime are again convincing you that Hostgator is your ultimate choice.

Minor negative comments like only answers provided during live chat and problems accessing to email. However, such negative comments are just contributed to a very small ratio as in compare with junks of strengths which Hostgator offering.

Lastly, your choice is around the corner – Hostgator. Be a smart buyer and choose the best for you. Hostgator definitely is the one for you.