Hostgator Pro Plan – Dedicated Server Hosting

Hostgator Pro Plan – Dedicated Server Hosting

The Pro Plan offered by Hostgator under the Dedicated Server Hosting category is the most advanced and powerful plan offered to HostGator users. The processor offered under this plan is the Quad-Core 3210 Xeon (Kentfield) processor. (The better your processor is the more sites your server will be able to handle). There are no setup charges under this plan and the monthly rental is $374 and HostGator customers also an option to pay on a yearly basis. The price tags mentioned here is inclusive of the taxes as well. The datacenter is located in Dallas, Texas.

It is important to weigh all options and requirements before selecting this plan. Do not get carried away by the figure “3120″. 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. Although this server is expensive, it’s by far least profitable for HostGator and the best deal in terms reliability, performance, and redundancy. This plan is best suited for those who wish to host many websites with maximum possible uptime.

The DDR memory offered is 4096 MB and hard drive offered is 2×250 GB SATA II. 2500 GB of bandwidth is provided to Pro customers and up to 10 IP addresses are allowed. As with other Dedicated hosting plans, the latest cPanel is also offered under this plan. The server is skillfully managed by HostGator and they are responsible to keep the server up to date on security, and operating system updates. Users receive full root control of the box and offered quality 24/7 customer/technical support. Users are not obliged or bound by any kind of contractual agreements. The site builder SiteStudio website designer tool is quite easy to use and allows web site creation in just a matter of minutes. All dedicated servers come with ping, service, system, and process monitoring. Customers are informed by email of any impending downtimes if any. All Dedicated server hosting plans come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Besides this, all plans including the Pro Plan offers unlimited domains, unlimited sub domains, unlimited POP3 accounts, unlimited MySQL databases and unlimited FTP accounts. Certain tools come preinstalled with the customer’s server which includes CGI, Perl, PHP, Python, SSI, JSP, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick and audio/video streaming. The E-mail tools include Web Mail, E-mail alias, Auto responders, Mailing Lists, Catch All, Spam Assassin, Mail Forwarding feature, IMAP and SMTP. The control panel features of the server include Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink Protection, IP Deny Manager, Search Engine Submittal, Custom Error Pages, Instant PHPnuke, instant chatroom, instant forum, instant guestbook, Redirect URL feature, web based file manager, Password protected Directories and phpMyAdmin. Similar to all the other lower level dedicated hosting plans, the Pro plan too comprises of features to monitor FTP statistics or web server stats. These include Urchin 5, Analog, AWstats, Webalizer, Raw Log Access, Referrer Logs and Error Logs. The E-commerce tools and features comprise of Private SSL support, Interchange shopping cart, Agora shopping cart and Instant osCommerce. The shopping carts are feature rich and can be installed instantly.