95% Of Our Websites Served On Hostgator

I am often asked which host I use, or which ones I would recommend. Hostgator, is the one we have used for almost all our websites over the last 4 years. While we may have used others in the past and still try out others that are recommended from time to time, we still reply mostly upon Hostgator for over 95% of our web hosting requirements.

HostGator has become one of the best known web hosts in the industry by being the best value for money. Though nothing they do is completely spectacular or ground breaking, they do what they should do. That is, HostGator actually answers their phones, replies to their emails, responds to live chat requests, doesn’t rip you off, and provides high quality hosting for a low cost. It’s actually quite sad that most hosts can’t seem to get these things right, but it’s great for HostGator as they’ve banked on it and it’s translated into success.

At first glance, HostGator is not too impressive. They have a fairly generic, kind of “old fashioned” style of web site, a logo with a fairly lame slogan – “we eat up the competition” (the alligator in the logo is eating the “H”) (sorry HostGator), ordinary copy on their text, an apparent lack of updates on their site, a pretty standard Modern Bill setup, cPanel, and basically everything an average web host has.

However, that’s the beauty of HostGator. They don’t have too many bells and whistles, marketing ploys, or anything of the sort. What you see is what you get and it’s that simple. Host Gator’s terms of service is pretty standard, as is their order process. Marketing isn’t shoved down your throat at every page and billing is simple. The order process takes about 5 minutes and HostGator accepts both credit cards and PayPal, as well as debit cards.

HostGator offers some other services such as web design, merchant services, domain registration, SSL certificates and script installation. They outline all of their upgrades quite clearly in the Addons section of the Support Center, for those that may require such services.

The actual HostGator control panel is cPanel. There is absolutely nothing that I can tell that is different than any other standard installation of cPanel. It has the standard mail and database features. Speed is excellent. We run almost all our websites on Hostgator accounts and have done so for several years now, without any issues. While many hosts will claim to have nearly 100% uptime on their servers, the difference with Hostgator is that figure is actually TRUE!

Pros: Good support, easy to contact, competitive pricing, plenty of features with cPanel, straight forward and easy to use.

Cons: When I can find one I will let you know.

Bottomline: HostGator is a solid hosting company that provides excellent support and competitive pricing without too many frills or marketing ploys.

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