Best HostGator Web Hosting Plan

Hostgator seperate its hosting plan to major three: HatchlingGator Hosting, BabyGator Hosting, and Busines Hosting. Hosting plans are divided based on its disk space and bandwidth allocation as well as some other addon hosting features.

In a quick glance, here’s the overview of Hostgator hosting plans.

* Hostgator upgraded its hosting plan in late October.

“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.

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