Host Gator Review

Hostgator Reviews

Hostgator is a privately owned company that was founded in the year 2002. Host gator provides reseller web hosting and shared hosting solutions. The website is instrumental in offering its services to over 400,000 websites on their shared and reseller plans. It is a leading provider of reseller accounts and boasts of over 10,000 resellers who have chosen hostgator to provide the network, servers, and support required to launch a hosting business. The company seemingly holds a high rung and is well regarded in the web hosting community.

The company commenced its operation in 2002 and uses the Planet data center in Dallas Texas. Their servers are dual Xeons with 4GB memory and IDE Raid hard drives.
Hostgator offers the following types of web hosting plans :

· Shared
· Reseller
· Dedicated

Shared Plans:
Customers have a many options to choose from under this plan and it comes with the Cpanel control panel. Quality services and support is offered 24/7 via phone, live chat, and an email ticket system. All their plans offer unlimited domain names (except hatchling) as well as a lot of bandwidth and disk space. Below are the options or plan categories available under this plan:

1. Hatchling:
Under this plan category, you get unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth is offered. Other services include unlimited sub domains, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited POP3 accounts and 1 domain is also allowed. This service is priced at $4.95 a month

2. Baby:
This plan category offers unlimited disk space, bandwidth and you can host unlimited sites. Moreover, it offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $7.95 a month.

3. Business:
Under this category, customers get an access to unlimited disk space and bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. You also get your own toll-free number absolutely free, in addition to a free dedicated IP as well as free private SSL. This service is priced at $12.95 per month.

Reseller Plans:

HostGator’s reseller hosting plans come with the Cpanel (your customers or endusers control panel) and WHM (reseller control panels to create Cpanels for your customers or end users) control panels. Hostgator resellers have the flexibility to host unlimited sites. Quality services and support is offered 24/7 via phone, live chat, and an email ticket system. Besides offering unlimited domain names; the reseller account also offers free domain registry account (eNom domain reseller account), free hosting templates, a billing program, and much more. Below are the options or plan categories available under this plan:

1. Aluminum Reseller Plan:
Under this plan category, 24 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth is provided. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This reseller plan is priced at $24.95 per month.

2. Copper Reseller Plan:
The copper reseller plan offers its customers 40 GB of disk space and 350 GB of bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $34.95 per month.

3. Silver Reseller Plan:
60 GB of disk space and 500 GB of bandwidth is offered under this particular plan. The silver reseller plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $49.95 per month.

4. Gold Reseller Plan:
80 GB of disk space and 600 GB of bandwidth is offered under this plan category. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $74.95 per month.

5. Diamond Reseller Plan:
100 GB of disk space and 700 GB of bandwidth is offered under this plan category. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $99.95 per month.

Dedicated Plans:
The plan includes complete server management as well as a control panel with every server. The best part of a dedicated server is that you can customize it to suit your requirements and get the most out of the plan. Moreover, you get to choose which operating system you want to run which include Red Hat Linux 9.0, RHEL3, RHEL4, CentOS, or FreeBSD. Any aspect can also be upgraded such as memory or disk drives. Below are the options or plan categories available under this plan:

Unmanged Dedicated:
This plan category offers 25 GB of disk space and 500 GB of bandwidth. The plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $74.95 per month.

Hostgator Linux Dedicated Servers

1. Basic Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core). The plan offers a bandwidth of 1500 GB, 250 GB hard drive, DDR Memory of 1 GB RAM. The server comes with tha latest cpanel, upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. The datacenter location is in Texas, U.S.A. This service is priced at $174 per month. This server is ideal for those with a few large websites that aren’t that memory intensive. Generally even the slowest CPU is more than capable for most websites. A server would generally require more RAM before it needs a CPU upgrade. However, the Basic server has a dual core Xeon server, making it able to multi-task quite nicely.

2. Standard Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core). The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2×80gb SATA. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $219 per month. Having two CPU cores on a state of the art processor setup like the Basic server will enable this server to multitask quite well. The main advantage would be the 4 GB RAM over the Basic server.s 1 GB RAM. Also this server comes with two 250 GB drives (twice of the Basic server) which we can setup as a backup drive upon request (one drive backs up to the other). This is quickly becoming our most popular selling server just on account of the increased RAM.

3. Elite Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual Xeon 2.8. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2×73gb SCSI. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $279 per month. Intel processor with quad cores running are great for multitasking, and the 4 GB of RAM will really help on memory intensive sites or sites with large databases. The two 500 GB drives can be set up so the primary drive does an automatic daily backup to the secondary drive which ensures that your sites’ data is still available in case a drive were to fail or server information gets lost or deleted. This server also has 1,000 GB more bandwidth than the Basic or Standard server.

4. Pro Linux Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 4×500gb SATA II RAID10. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $374 per month. This server is actually a super fast Intel Xeon Quad Core 3360 with 8 GB of RAM (insane) and dual 500 GB hard drives. This server might be the most expensive, but it’s by far our least profitable, and the best deal in terms reliability, performance, and redundancy. If you are looking to host many sites, with the best possible uptime. Or if you’d like to use this as a pure work horse this is the server you want.

Hostgator Windows Dedicated Servers

1. Basic Windows Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. The plan offers a bandwidth of 1500 GB and a hard drive of 80 GB, SATA. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $174 per month. This server is ideal for those with a few large websites that aren’t that memory intensive. Generally even the slowest CPU is more than capable for most websites. A server would generally need more RAM before it needs a CPU upgrade.

2. Standard Windows Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is a Dual Xeon 2.4. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2×80gb SATA. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $219 per month. Having two CPU cores on a state of the art processor setup will enable this server to multitask much easier with anything CPU intensive. An example of when this would be very useful is when a site’s logs are being processed for stats on the server and webpages are still being accesed. Websites that are bandwidth intensive will have more room to grow with 1,500 GB of data transfer with the Standard server setup.

3. Elite Windows Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual Xeon 2.8. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 2×73gb SCSI. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $279 per month. Two Intel Xeon processors running at 2.4 Ghz are great for multitasking, and the 2 GB of RAM will really help on memory intensive sites or sites with large databases. The two 80 GB drives can be set up so the primary drive does an automatic daily backup to the secondary drive which ensures that your sites’ data is still available in case a drive were to fail or server information gets lost or deleted. Honestly though, although some buyers prefer this tested CPU, we recommend the standard dedicated server.s CPU power with the Dual Core setup as every benchmark show it to outperform the Elite.s Dual Xeons. Get this server if your script is memory intensive. If it.s not, save the money and go with the Standard.

4. Pro Windows Dedicated Server:
There are no set up charges for this plan category and the processor provided is Dual-Core 3060 Conroe. The plan offers a bandwidth of 2500 GB and a hard drive of 4×500gb SATA II RAID10. Upto 5 IP addresses are allowed and the plan offers unlimited domains, sub domains, FTP accounts and POP3 accounts. This service is priced at $374 per month.Don’t let the 3120 name confuse you. The Intel Xeon 3120 cpu is actually a Quad cpu core processor capable of multitasking and is the perfect chip for servers with heavy traffic. This server might be the most expensive, but it’s by far our least profitable, and the best deal in terms reliability, performance, and redundancy. If you are looking to host many sites, with the best possible uptime. Or if you’d like to use this as a pure work horse this is the server you want!

All in all, a highly recommended web host – one host you can trust your sites with.