Hostgator Review

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Hostgator might be one of the best and the oldest companies which host the web. This web hosting companies are the companies which are responsible for providing the space for the storage of the website.

They also provide space for the application on the servers so that they are made available on the internet.

Hostgator is a web hosting company that has been used since long now by a lot of people.

This web hosting company supports more than 75 apps and gives it’s clients excellent up time.

The up time provided by Hostgator to the clients is one of the best up times. This up time is one of the best provided in the entire industry. The support provided by this is 24/7 to it’s customers.

The starting price of this is not much. It is $2.75/mo. But the renewal pricing after this initial plan is over, is high. The renewal plan is for $6.95/mo. The speed which is offered by this web hosting plan for the web sites of their clients is 1191 ms.

Hostgator offers it’s customers three kinds of shared hosting plans. Those shared hosting plans are:

• Hatchling plan
• Baby plan
• Business plan

Hatchling plan is the cheapest hosting plan which is offered by the Hostgator. The starting price of this is $2.75 per month. There are many features which are offered to the clients in this plan.

Those features are unlimited disk space and storage. The client also gets one domain name and unlimited sub domains. The client also gets SSL certificate in this plan.

Baby plan is the plan that comes after the hatchling plan. The price for this plan is $3.95 per month. With the increase in the price of this plan, the features also increase.

This plan supports unlimited domain names instead of only one like in the hatchling plan. Moreover, the support to the storage is also unlimited in this plan. This plan also supports unlimited bandwidth.

Business plan is the last shared hosting plan which is offered by the Hostgator web hosting company to the clients. The cost of the plan is $5.95 per month. The features which are supported in this plan are unlimited storage, domain names.

It also supports unlimited bandwidth. But what makes it different from the other two plans are some other features offered in this plan. Those features are that this plan comes with free dedicated IP, SSL. It also gives you a free toll number.

The platform makes it easier for people and businesses to manage their websites. The account of the client is activated with in 24 to 48 hours. It is not tough to sign up also.

The methods with which the payment can be done for these plans can be through Paypal, or may be through a credit card. It is very easy to install the other apps also.

The apps like WordPress, Joomla can be installed with the help of this web hosting company.

There are a lot of up-sells also available on this web hosting company.

The basic hosting plan of this web hosting company has a lot of features in it. There are features like unlimited storage, and it also gives the clients a free SSL certificate. Some web hosting companies take extra charges for issuing a SSL certificate. But it is not the case in this web hosting company.

Along with these features, Hostgator also provides the clients with the facility of free domain for the first year. There is a wide range of top domains from which the client can choose.

The client service of this web hosting company is great. It literally replies back to the clients with in seconds of the post of the client.

Hostgator connects with it’s clients through live chats emails, phone calls. The answers to the questions of the clients are posted with in seconds on this live chat.

There are many other reasons also for which this web hosting company should be used by the people and businesses for their web sites. Those reasons are:

• Strong uptime of 99.98%: The up time provided by this web hosting company for the websites is 99.98%. It is a great up time and it is very rare that the web sites go offline if they are using Hostgator as their web hosting company. Also it is not only strong but also stable. It is not that today the up time is 99.98% and tomorrow it will be less. It is stable.
• Excellent support: The support which is provided by the Hostgator is incredible. It provides support to the clients with the help of emails, phones, and even through live chat support. The answer to the question of the client and the support responds back with in few seconds. This is especially then when it is through live chat.
• Money back guarantee: The scheme of the money back guarantee in Hostgator is for 45 days. Client can always ask back for money if he is not satisfied with the services of this web hosting company. But the refund has to be asked for with in a time span of 45 days. This gives the clients ample amount of time to judge their services.
• Site security features: There are features offered to the clients which are responsible for the protection of the website of the client. The services offered are site lock which is responsible for monitoring the site. Apart from that the web hosting company also offers spam assassin. This feature is responsible for protecting the inbox of the email from the spams.
• User friendly for the beginners: The site of the Hostgator is full of the tutorials. This is a great help for the people are fresh comers in this business. It is very user friendly for the beginners. There are also extra features like designing the web site and also to build the web site. This protects the beginners from the hassles of hiring some one else for the jobs like designing, building. The beginners do not have to hire some one else to manage everything.
• Free site migration: If the client wants to move any kind of files, data base, scripts for themselves, they have Hostgator at their rescue. 30 days after signing up, the clients have the support of this web hosting company to get data bases or files moved.

Looking at all these advantages and the pros of this web hosting companies, one would for sure think that this does not have any flaws in it. But that is not the reality.

Despite being one of the oldest web hosting companies, it still is in the process of improvement and making some changes.

There are certain disadvantages of having Hostgator as your web hosting company.

• Slow page speed: Speed and efficiency are two of the most important domains that the client must look for while selecting their web hosting company. But if the speed of the web hosting company would be slow, it would be a huge problem for the web sites. The customers of the web site would not stick for long on the web sites taking long to load. A web site on Hostgator takes more than one second to load.
• Extra fee for many features: Basic features like true backup or the access to the Gmail has to be paid for. The features like Site lock monitoring also has to be paid if the clients want these features on their web sites.
• Pricing tricks: This is one of the worst point about this web hosting company. For example if the client does not want to pay much, then he has to take up a plan for three years straight. More over the price of renewing the plan after the initial plan is over is also very high. But if the client wants to pay every month, then the price is quite high. Compared to the other web hosting companies in the market, these prices are very high.

So over all what can be said about Hostgator is that it is not recommended highly. There is no doubt about the fact that there are facilities like great up time. This up time has improved a lot in the past one and a half years.

Also the customer service is incredible. It literally responds back with in seconds to the queries of the customers. This is definitely the scenario if the option of live chat is used by the client. It is also user-friendly.

But the problem lies with the slow loading of the page on the internet. It is one of basic things that the clients look for while selecting their web hosting companies for their web sites.

And unfortunately, Hostgator is slow regarding that only.

Also the high pricing and the extra pricing hikes adds more on to it. The clients have to pay more and then also get slow speed. So this combination of slow speed and high pricing are the reasons of not recommending this to you.