Hostgator Review : Initial impression 2 days after signing up

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This is a hostgator review posted by mindracer on 07 July 2008

New client here, had another site on godadddy and decided to try you out even though godaddy was offering lower prices (but lower storage/etc) since i read amazing reviews of your service.

Initial reaction after two days: Your sites load very fast, even faster than GoDaddy, which was fast to begin with.

Control Panel: So far excellent, Everything is in one place and one or two clicks away (Godaddy system is so un-user friendly compared to cPanel)

And the big one **MYSQL** databases. I havent used it in production yet, but it is super fast in phpMyAdmin!! Maybe i was too accustomed to godaddy’s very very slow phpmyadmin/database, but wow.

So my 2-day in initial reaction.. Oh and Chat support and 1 ticket so far very great aswell.

*** One minooor complaint, before I signed up i thought the baby plan would be 7.95 a month, I had to contact sales via chat to find out that I had to “hover my mouse” over the 7.95 price to see thats its only for 3-year contracts. I wish this was more obvious to begin with, there wasnt even any print at the bottom of the page or anything to indicate this except for a mouse hover..

As I said minor, and almost caused me to think twice about joining, but I took a leap of faith anyways***

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