Best HostGator Web Hosting Plan

Well, it’s not just me who think Hostgator is good. There’re tons of real, satisfied, customers leaving positive feedbacks on Hostgator. I find some of these reviews useful and thought it might be good for your references.

So, here goes.

Nick7268: A very good experience!

Customer complimenting Hostgator’s customer supports and asking for more bandwidth for the reseller account.

A very good experience

I have to make this post in special for give thanks to the people of hostgator.com they make me easy to start my webhosting initiative, that was not easy to me in the past. to many bad companys and worse technical suport.

i arrive in hostgator after a good coincidence, one friend of mine was in need of hosting of one of their sites because her old provider was hacked situation that put her in high stress. i make my research and found that hostgator was the right one for her. she buy an account then i make the review so i found it was i look for for me then i decided to make the jump so i am here. the service is better i have no doubt and always have received answers at time of my technical problems.

maybe i have a sugestion for the resellers, when a persona grows in need you have a roof top on 100 gigas of space and perhaps someone found that this is not enough. the other thing is the transfer, it will be a nice thing to have bandwith more higher for reseller hosting.

Thanks hostgator.com

– by nick7268, 08-15-2008 08:39 PM

James G.: Great Value, Fast Support!!!

Customer who bought baby-gator hosting plan and is extremely happy with the tech support given and thinks that Hostgator offer great value of service.

Great Value, Fast Support!!!

I’ve been using Host Gator for my personal sites for about 5 months now.
(just recently upgraded from the ‘hatchling’ to a ‘baby’ account so that I can use the ‘addon domain’ feature).

Tech support is great and fast!!!
(often getting a response and resolution within minutes)

After upgrading to the ‘baby’ account, I had some problems figuring out how to go about controlling my sub-domains within the addon-domains. Tech Support recommended I use the x3 theme for cpanel… after my request, they changed my cpanel theme over to x3, and things are good

Thanks to all the staff who’s helped me out these past few days… and I hope Host Gator continues to offer this level of 24 hour support!!!

To be perfectly honest… I try to support my local businesses, but so far, Host Gator is the most competively priced host (and all my sites are non-profit). If I ever switch, it will be because there is a canadian host that can ‘match’ Host Gators value and service.

Thanks,

– by James Gerber, 09-09-2008 12:43 AM

SoftwareCandy: Almost 4 months now – HostGator rocks!

Technical guys who got help from Hostgator’s supports in Perl module installation.

Almost 4 months now – HostGator rocks!

For my soon-to-be-launched web site (Software Candy), I needed a Perl module that is critical to one of my products. I couldn’t find it in the installed list, so I opened a ticket requesting that module to be installed.

Within less than an hour, HostGator’s support (thank you Bill H.) installed that module, flawlessly, smoothly and without any problem whatsoever. It works so nicely.

For that, HostGator receives a PERFECT 10 out of 10!

– by softwarecandy, 09-09-2008 11:06 PM

Ron: Thanks for four years and counting…

Long term customers commenting on Hostgator services.

Thanks for four years and counting…

I have been on a dedicated server since Feb 07 with HostGator. Before that on a shared server since Apr 04.

Through all of these years, I only experience only a few issues. Hostgator was especially helpful to me when I was on vacation and someone had installed a spammer’s script on one of my sites. They locked down and cleaned up the “problem” for me while all I could really do was send emails of “Thanks Guys!!!” from a public email account until I got back home. I have found it easier to send an email / ticket to the support team and let them do what they do best…. that way I don’t screw up something because I think I know what I am doing…and not have any headaches.

For the most part, I have little interaction with the support team. Which, is a quiet good thing. It quietly means that months after months go by without a burp on the hosting service. When I do need something, like an SSL certificate installed or some other request, I have to go back in the archive email folders to figure out my Hostgator login and password to create a ticket…

My experience has been a favorable one here and I thank the Hostgator support team for all of their assistance throughout the years.

– by Ron, 07-29-2008 04:35 PM

Well that’s all for the moment. I’ll be checking Hostgator feedbacks online from time to time and will share more with you in case I found any good ones. For the time being, in case you wish to have your words about Hostgator spread, why not email me at jerry [a] hostgatorsecretrevealed.com.

I’ll be more than happy to publish your useful comment here. Till then, cheers!

I knew a few losuy web hosting companies that do not allow their shared hosting users .htaccess overwrite/rewrite.

But not Hostgator.

Dedicated or shared hosting, Hostgator offers full control of .htaccess files to their clients as long as the hosting server is not running on Windows/NT (the file doesn’t work on Windows).

What does a .htaccess file do?

.htaccess files are used in many ways but mainly for personalized error pages, password protection, and website URL redirects.

One of the in-famous usage of .htaccess files is to switch website’s URL between http://www. and http:// (the www and the non www). The function was desperately needed because Google was confused with http://www.example.com and http://example.com as two different pages – they were rating these two URLs with different page rank and for some, it causes serious duplication penalty (as both URL is directed to the index file).

How to rewrite http:// to http://www. with .htaccess?

Well, here’re some simple examples what can .htaccess file does.

Rewrite URL from http:// to http://www

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Manage apache handler

AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .htm

To handle a 301 redirect

Redirect 301 /trashpage.html http://www.example.com/redirectpage.htm

Wish to contact Hostgator via snail mail, or wish to go visit them in the office? Now here’re the details you need!

HostGator.com mailing address
11251 Northwest Freeway, Suite 400 Houston, TX 77092, United States of America
Tel #: 1-866-964-2867, 1-713-574-5287

P/S: Yeah, I know, it feels better when you know the physical location of the guys who’re dealing with your credit card.

Every year Inc. Magazine compiles a list of 5,000 fastest growing companies in United States and the list for this year had been released not long ago.

Guess what? Hosting company Hostgator booked a place in that list. More over, out of the 5,000 top fastest growing American’s companies, Hostgator ranked #21 overall; and in ranked #1 for Texas. With no other hosting companies come close to the list, HostGator is now the official fastest growing web host in United States.

Why should the award matters you?

Inc. analysis on Hostgator success means a lot to hosting users like you and me:

Because support is key in the Web-hosting business, the company never outsources support and keeps technical support staff available 24/7, with an average wait time of one minute for inbound calls. It also provides developed templates and specialized software licensing to clients for free to enhance the company’s service offering.

In other words, if you’re looking for a web host who has the *BEST* customer supports, look no further and go with Hostgator!

About Inc.

Inc.com, the daily resource for entrepreneurs, delivers how-to guides, advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses. Inc.com offers dynamic marketing solutions to help advertisers effectively reach Inc.com’s audience of business leaders.

About HostGator

HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting including shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. The company provides hosting for over 1.3 million websites and supports more than 50,000 resellers worldwide with 24/7 technical support and state-of-the-art web hosting tools including free billing software for resellers and access to over 4,500 high quality free web templates.

When it comes to fighting global warming, here’s what most people will do: cut down air conditioner usage, reduce plastic bags usages, use a bicycle, use recycled papers, and split your garbage into seperate recycle bins.

What about web hosting?

I bet majority of us have not thought about getting a ‘green’ host when it comes to web hosting. In fact, little had been told – most of us do not link global warming with web hosting at all.

However, do you know about 3~4% of the electricity used in this world is consumed by date centers? The IT sector has a huge climate impact.

If you’re one of the four and a half million registered users of Second Life, consider this: the average Second Life avatar consumes 1,752 kWh of electricity per year, or about two thirds that of an actual person (globally averaged). One server alone has roughly the same climate impact as a 15mpg SUV!

Seeing our planet needs a hand desperately, Hostgator has gone green by working out series of program (with the help of Integrated Ecosystem Market Services) to reduce their IT emissions.

What had Hostgator achieved?

As the impact of this program, Hostgator is now using renewable energy (wind power) to cool and power their servers.They had purchased RECs (translate it to wind power capacity) for 130% of the elctricity used to maintain both their shared and reseller servers.

What does this mean to you?

Switching to Hostgator, or picking up Hostgator as your web host means that you care about your environment. By switching from another web host (that’s not using recycle power), you simply reduce your personal carbon footprint greatly.

Want more readings?

Wish to know how Hostgator did it? Check out their latest blogpost about the whole go-green program: What’s lean, mean, and now green.