If we talk about HostGator Web hosting, it might be one of the biggest, and oldest web hosting companies in the industry, and still working on to improve the services. The average uptime of Shared Hostgator web hosting is 99.98%.
Their basic shared hosting plans come with unlimited storage, bandwidth, free domain (only for the first year), and a free SSL (by Let’s Encrypt) certificate. They also have great customer service, who connected through a live chat instantly and answered each question within a few seconds each.
Unfortunately, Hostgator is lacking on average page loading times. Also, many extra services, like backups and security, will be tacked on as additional fees. Plus, the renewal rates rise aggressively after your first term expires.
HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence in Austin, Texas.
If we talk about the Shared Web hosting, the pros and cons of Hostgator Web hosting are as:
Hostgator is constantly working on his services and had uptime of 99.98% which is far better than what most other hosting providers offer.
When it comes to support, Hostgator offers 24/7/365 support via phone, and live chat. You will also find plenty of helpful guides and tutorials, not to mention they have a dedicated knowledge base that’s neatly categorized and even has the search option.
It is true, no contract needed. They offer 45-Day Money-Back Guarantee.
That means you can use them for over a full month and still get your purchase price back if any issues pop up.
This 45-day money-back guarantee applies to all shared, reseller, and VPS hosting packages.
If this isn’t your first site, and you’re trying to move an existing one over, HostGator’s got your back.
You’ll have 30 days after sign-up to get in touch and have them help move any (one) site files, databases, scripts, and even a domain name over for you.
This includes a full cPanel transfer. So if you happened to have multiple site installs (like subdomains for one large site), you’re covered.
If you are looking for shared web hosting, their average page loading time over the last 24 months has only been a 1191ms average.
That’s over a second to load relatively simple, text-based content pages. So just imagine what would happen if you fill these pages up with thousands of words and dozens of high-resolution images. Yeah, not good.
Slow page loading times have been shown to impact your visitor’s experience directly.
All of the ‘extra’ stuff, like site backups, Gmail access, SiteLock monitoring, and SEO tools will all cost you extra.
Let’s talk about the different plans that Hostgator offers.
The plans under shared web hosting includes Free WordPress/cPanel Website Transfer, Unmetered Bandwidth, Free SSL Certificate (with Let’s Encrypt), and Free Domain (only for first year)
WordPress hosting is a shared cloud based hosting and best suitable for, if you’re website is based on WordPress CMS. WordPress Hosting is 2.3x faster than the shared web hosting. All plans include Free SSL Certificate and Free Domain (only for first year)
Cloud hosting is 2x faster than shared web hosting. Also they offer 4x resources. All plans include Free SSL Certificate and Free Domain (for first year)
Full root access allows total control over your hosting environment, including custom installs and configuration with your virtual private server hosting.
The completely autonomous virtual server is fully allocated to your site. VPS Hosting has all the benefits of dedicated resources without the cost of a dedicated server
All plans includes Full root access (64-bit), Optional cPanel with WHM control panel, Apache web server (Must be installed by semi-managed plans), Supports: MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python (Django), Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg, Free IP table firewall, Centralized DDOS protection, Secured VPS firewall, Fault-tolerant RAID disk arrays
By using dedicated Server hosting, you get the ultimate in power and control.
All Plans include Unmetered Bandwidth and Linux or Windows OS
This was the today’s review cum blog on Hostgator Shared Web hosting. I always recommend Hostgator over GoDaddy.
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