HostGator Review
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Plan Name: | Hatchling |
| Domains Hosted: | 1 |
| Control Panel: | cPanel |
| Data Transfer: | Unlimited |
| Disk Space: | Unlimited |
| Price: | $4.95/ month |
| Coupons: | WORDPRESSHOSTING |
Founded in 2002, HostGator has been world-class web hosting service to clients across the globe. Based in Houston, Texas, the company is one of the top ten largest web hosting companies in the world. With its superior quality, reasonable prices and good customer support, HostGator provides services for more than 2,500,000 domains.
HostGator Plans
HostGator has shared, reseller, dedicated and VPS packages availble . For WordPress you will most likely use a shared hosting plan.
The shared hosting plans are:
Hatching Plan: Starting at $4.95 per month, this plan includes a single domain, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and a shared SSL certificate.
Baby Plan: Starting at $7.95 / month, all the features of the hatchling plan and adds unlimited domains.
Business Plan: Starting at $12.95 / month, unlimited domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and a free dedicated SSL and IP, along with a free Toll-Free number.
All web hosting plans include 99.99% uptime guarantee, 45 day money-back guarantee and 24 hour customer support.
HostGator WordPess & Technical Features
Apart from unlimited bandwidth, disk space and domains in each hosting plan, HostGator offers a variety of other technical features. These include the flexible cPanel control panel, free sitebuilder tools, website templates, unlimited email accounts, support for PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, SSI, CGI, Fast CGI scripts. $50 Google Adwords Credit, free website transfer, password protection, spam protection and website statistics are also provided.
You can install WordPress with a few clicks using HostGator’s Fantastico autoinstaller. The latest cPanel control panel allows you to create and edit your blog. The hosting plans support PHP 5, MySQL (5.x) and Apache (2.x) module needed for WordPress.
HostGator Support
- Phone Support: Yes (24hrs/day)
- Email Support: Yes (24hr/day)
- Support Ticket System: Yes
- Live Support Chat: Yes (24hrs/day)
- Support Forums: Yes
- FAQ & Knowledge base: Yes
- Video Tutorials: Yes
As an award winning hosting service provider, HostGator provides top-notch security, management and customer support to its customers through various options.
February 17th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
HostGator is one of our favorite hosting companies. We have been hosting with HostGator for over three years and they have not let us down. The servers are fast and well managed and customer support is always there for any questions.
Excellent Customer Support
Customer support is easy to get in touch with and very knowledgeable. HostGator has a good grasp of what it takes to run WordPress well. While the support staff can be contacted by phone, we typically contact them via chat session. HostGator at times will have up to 100 support technicians at a time answering questions.
They are a little more expensive than some other discount hosting companies but well worth the extra money.
HostGator gives you room to Grow
As your site grows, HostGator has the plans that can grow with you. Whether it is moving from a shared plane to a Virtual Private Server or even up to a dedicated Server. Host Gator will provide the best plan for you.
It seems that over the years HostGator has been able to refine the art of hosting and especially shared hosting. We are very happy with HostGator and will continue to use them.
June 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I have been very pleased with Hostgator good customer support and my site is always up.
HostGator has made my WordPress experience very enjoyable.
It is interesting to see that HostGator is now sponsoring a NASCAR.
July 12th, 2010 at 10:29 am
I enjoyed reading your hostgator review. I’m using them to host my website and so far no complaints.
Their control panel is top class.