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HostGator Swamp Plan - Shared or Virtual Web Hosting

The Swamp Plan offered by HostGator is the third level and most advanced plan suitable for customers who are looking for more advanced features and the best of everything HostGator can offer in the shared hosting category.

The disk space offered under this plan is 1,000,000 mb/ 1,000gb. Swamp customers get access to unlimited bandwidth and unlimited domains. The swamp plan is priced at $14.95 per monthly for the monthly billing cycle, $334.80 (24 months @ $13.95) and $466.20 (36 months @ $12.95). The swamp plan offers the anonymous FTP feature to their customer which is not available to the other two lower levels plans. Anonymous ftp allows the public to upload, download, or view files in a specified directory and does not require a login. Other features include a site builder, 24/7 support, instant backup, 99.9% uptime guarantee, free and instant setup and a 45 day money back guarantee (no questions asked). Customers are not bound by any contracts whatsoever under this plan. The instant backup feature allows customers to backup their entire cPanel account. The backup is done under a specific link and this backup file can be used to restore the account on the hostgator servers, if required.

Besides this, the domain and FTP features include an array of “unlimited features” including unlimited add-on or parked domains, unlimited sub domains, unlimited FTP accounts as well as an Anonymous FTP which is not offered under the hatchling or baby account plans. The other supported features include unlimited MySQL databases, CGI, PHP4 and 5, Ruby on Rails, SSH, Perl, Chilisoft ASP, Python, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick, Audio and video streaming and free module installation. These supported features are common to all three shared hosting plans. Furthermore, if the customer wants a new module for their program to function smoothly, HostGator installs the specific modules completely free of cost. The open source web frame work “Ruby on Rails” further enhances productivity. The following components are provided with the setup: rake, actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools, htmltools

The most popular and widely used open source database “MySQL” is provided to customers under all plans of shared hosting package. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySQL to run. Currently HostGator uses version 4.1.21 and the MySQL 5.0.24 is available upon request for shared accounts only.

The E-mail supported features offered under the swamp plan include unlimited POP3 accounts, Web mail, E-mail Alias, Auto responders, mailing lists, Catch alls, Spam assassin, mail forwarding, IMAP support and SMTP. Most of these features are common to all the shared category plans. HostGator offrs the most advanced control panel called the cPanel, and customers can view the demo of this control panel to get a better feel and understanding of its functions and features. With cpanel, customers can easily monitor the essential aspects of their website like amount of bandwidth used, space used, and creation of e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySql databases, and much more, with just a few clicks. Other cPanel features include Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink Protection, an IP deny manager, custom error pages, instant blogs, instant portals, instant PHPnuke, instant forums, instant guestbook and counter, instant formmail, a redirect URL, web based file manager, Password protected directories and phpMyAdmin.

The FTP statistics features include AW stats, Webalizer (displays in depth traffic statistics for your site), Raw Log manager, Referrer Logs and Error Logs. Among the E-commerce features, the private SSL feature is offered under the swamp plan which is missing under the other two shared hosting plans. Private SSL certificates require a dedicated IP address at $2/month. A private SSL CRT is available from HostGator at $75 per year including installation. (SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords). Other E-Commerce features include shared SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart and Cube Cart. All these shopping carts are fully featured and can be installed with just a single mouse click. Detailed description of the features and the list of scripts that are provided is available for view at the HostGator website.

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