Last Updated: April 1, 2008

Reviews - Host Gator

Review Criteria Score Business Hosting (Baby Plan ) 89% Diskspace 10/10 Bandwidth 10/10 Domains 6/10 Features 6/10 Price 7.5/10     Overall Performance 84% Reliability (up-time, data center technology) 8/10 Price Value (most for your money) 8/10 Control Panel (ease of use) 8.5/10 Customer Support (live chat, 24/7, toll-free, timeliness, quality) 9/10 Overall Score: 86%

Host Gator is a privately owned company founded in 2002 that provides service to over 400,000 websites on shared and reseller plans. They are the world's leading provider of reseller accounts with over 10,000 resellers who have chosen us to provide the network, servers, and support required to launch a hosting business.

Editor's Note: Host Gator's Business Hosting plan is outstanding because it gives you the most online storage and bandwidth out of all the hosts we review. In addition, their commitment to customer service goes right to the top, with their President fully accessible to support customer service issues.

Business Hosting

HostGator's Business plan features 600GB of disk space, and 6000GB bandwidth. Features include unlimited domains allowed, unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts, a 45 day money back guarantee, MySQL databases, website statistics, a selection of e-commerce shopping carts, and several one-click applications.

Overall Performance

Reliability
HostGator is housed in the Dallas area, utilizing 4 separate data centres on 10 backbone providers. Their servers run on diverse backbones and their networks are monitored 24/7. All three data centers have UPS power back-up and diesel back-up generators so that your website will be up and running all the time.

Price Value
The price for hosting is very reasonable for the ridiculous amount of disk space and bandwidth HostGator offers. Keep in mind that you have to register domains at extra cost. These are cheaply and easily obtained from any domain name registrar (such as Netfirms, GoDaddy, 1&1, etc.), and can be pointed to HostGator.

Control Panel
HostGator utilizes cPanel. It makes managing a shared hosting account very simple with self serve interfaces and end user access for mail and domain administration. The control panel's point-and-click simplicity makes website creation, site marketing and stats collection, shopping cart implementation, email account creation very straight forward.

Customer Support
HostGator's "insane" Support Representatives are available 24/7 by phone (toll-free), email, and live chat. Their online help center has a large, searchable knowledgebase, and a very comprehensive collection of interactive online tutorials.