Hostgator Baby Plan

HostGator Baby Plan – Shared or Virtual Web Hosting

Under the shared hosting category, the Baby Plan is the second level or mid-ranged plan that is offered by HostGator. All the HostGator plans come with an option of paying monthly. Depending on the duration of billing cycle selected during check out, the monthly pricing keeps decreasing. If the customer decides to pay monthly (without a billing cycle), the monthly cost comes to $9.95 per month, for a 24 month billing cycle, it is priced at $8.95 per month (total=$214.80) and for a 36 month cycle it is $7.95 per month (total=$282.20).

The disk space offered under the Baby Plan is 600,000 mb/ 600gb and the bandwidth is 6,000,000 mb/6,000gb. What’s best is that unlimited domains are offered to customers under this plan. Customers are offered premium services which includes 24/7 support, instant backups, 99.9% uptime and a 45 day money back guarantee. Customers are not bound by any contracts whatsoever and can cancel their accounts at any time without any cancellation fee. The advanced control panel gives the customers the flexibility to make an instant backup of their entire cPanel account. This backup can then be used to restore the account on the servers. The best yet is loads of “unlimited features”. These include unlimited add-on/park domains, unlimited sub-domains, unlimited MySQL databases and unlimited FTP accounts. The anonymous FTP feature however is not included under this plan.

Other supported features include PHP4 and 5, Ruby on Rails, SSH, Perl, Chilisoft ASP, Python, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick, audio/video streaming and free module installation. The CGI (common gateway interface) is yet another great feature offered under the baby plan. Under this method, a web server can obtain data from (or send data to) databases, documents, and other programs, and present that data to viewers via the web. In other words, a CGI script is a program intended to be run on the web. A CGI program can be written in any programming language. The customers get access to a CGI bin directory in which the CGI scripts are normally uploaded and the CGI script can function from inside and outside the directory.

The Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework: Hostgator baby Hosting Plan has these ruby on rails gems installed with the setup : Rake, actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools, htmltools.

Under all the shared hosting plans, customers are allowed to use the OpenSSH Protocol (using Jailed Shell) which enables them to develop and debug their files with text editors like vim and nano. In order to avail this feature however, customers need to first email the hostgator support with a copy of their photo ID. The Python programming an scripting language can be used on many different computers and operating systems. The cron (Crontab) is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time. Curl is another feature which is essentially a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. The GD is another useful feature for the baby customers. GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. Customers get access to Image Magick as well. ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats.

The e-mail related features are similar to the hatchling plan except that customers gain an access to unlimited POP3 accounts. Others include web mail, e-mail alias, auto responders, mailing lists, catch alls, spam assassin, mail forwarding, IMAP support and SMTP.
The control panel offered by HostGator is the latest cPanel which allows the customers to monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySql databases, and much more with just a few clicks. A host of useful e-commerce features are offered under this plan which includes shared SSL, Agora Cart, os Commerce, Zen Cart and Cube Cart. The Private SSL feature however is not included under the baby plan. The baby customers get access to real time updates (AW stats), Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, Referrer Logs and Error logs. What’s more; customers get to install over 52 scripts through the cPanel.