Hostgator Dedicated Servers – Basic Dedicated Web Hosting Plan

Hostgator Basic Dedicated Servers Plan

The third category of web hosting services offered by Hostgator is Dedicated Hosting, in which the customer has the power to customize their server and the service complete server management as well as a control panel with every server. The best part is that customers get to choose from an array of operating systems like Red Hat Linux 9.0, RHEL3, RHEL4, CentOS, or FreeBSD. Other additional programs like ASP, if required by the customer are also offered by Hostgator under the dedicated hosting category. The latest cPanel, the WHM control panel as well as free Fantastico is provided free of cost with every Linux server. The demo of the both the control panels are available for view at the HostGator website and over 52 scripts can be instantly installed with Fantastico. The WHM control panel is essentially the control panel used to create cPanels and the cPanel is the individual sites control panel. Moreover, as a HostGator dedicated server client, you’ll also receive every feature of the reseller plans if you want to host clients on your server. This includes a free billing manager by WHM Autopilot or WHMCS, an Enom reseller account, and free web hosting templates.

The first level plan under the dedicated hosting category is called the “basic” plan. This is by far the best deal plan available under this category and is priced at $174 per month and comes with a yearly payment option. The setup is completely free of cost with Dallas, Texas as its data center location. Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor is provided under the basic level plan. (The better your processor is the more sites your server will be able to handle). The server provided under the basic level plan is deal for those with a few large websites that aren’t that memory intensive. A server would need more RAM before it needs a CPU upgrade. The plan includes 1024mb of DDR memory and if the customer wishes to upgrade to one GIG of RAM, then he has the option to pay either $50 per month or $300 as a one time upgrade payment. The hard drive offered is 80 GB SATA. This is the location where all files are stored. 1 gig of hard drive space is equal to 1024 mb’s. Additional hard drive space if required can also purchased for a monthly fixed price depending upon the amount of hard drive required. The bandwidth provided is 1500 GB. The average account uses less than 2 GB of bandwidth a month. The bandwidth figure used will reset back to zero on the first of every month. Additional bandwidth can also be purchased for $2.00 a gig. The basic level allows up to 5 IP addresses and additional IP addresses can purchased for $2 for every IP per month. The latest cPanel is provided to all level plans and through this control panel customers can easily monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySql databases, and much more. HostGator completely manages the servers and keeps them up to date at all times. The security updates are usually installed within 8-20 hours of their release from RedHat, CentOS or Microsoft. Customers also receive full root control of the box. 24×7 quality support is provided and customers are not bound by any contractual obligations. All dedicated servers come with ping, service, system, and process monitoring (server monitoring). Besides offering a 99.9% uptime guarantee, the server also creates unlimited domains, sub domains, POP3 accounts, MySQL databases and FTP accounts. The following tools come preinstalled with the server: CGI, PHP, Perl, Python, SSI, JSP, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick and music and video streaming.

The E-mail tools that come with server include: web mail, email alias, auto responders, mailing list, catch all, spam assassin, mail forward, IMAP and SMTP. The server control panel is highly utilizable and advanced and its features include Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink Protection, IP deny manager, search engine submittal, custom error pages, instant PHPnuke, instant chatroom, instant forum, instant guestbook, instant counter, instant FormMail, Redirect URL, web based file manager, password protected directories and phpMyAdmin. The Fantastico DeLuxe allows you and your customers to install over 50 scripts instantly. These include Blogs, Portals/CMS, Customer Support, desks, forums, shopping carts, Image Galleries, Mailing Lists.

For the server’s FTP or web statistics, tools like Urchin 5, Analog, AWstats, Webalizer, Raw Log Access, Referrer Logs and Error logs are offered. Urchin is available only on a select few servers. If the customer requires urchin they need to mention it at the time of signup, or they may not be eligible for it. The Analog tool is by far the most popular logfile analyzer in the world. Its essential features that make it a favorite includes high speed, highly configurable, scalable, reports in 32 languages, works on any operating system and is offered as a free software. The E-commerce features of the server comprise of a private SSL report, interchange shopping cart, Agora shopping cart and instant osCommerce. SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site. Private SSL certificates require a dedicated IP address at $2/month. The Interchange shopping cart is a fully featured shopping cart that is provided with every account. Interchange works with Authorize.net and other merchant gateways.