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Hostgator includes outstanding support at an extremely competitive rate.Matthew Weinberg, vectorcomp.com


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HostGator - Company Profile

Hostgator has become one of the most well-known web hosts by doing something simple yet uncommon in the business: delivering top-rate products, keeping their promises and answering their support calls. And of course, by having a great logo.

Hostgator offers web hosting through three different plans with names that fit the company logo: Hatchling, Baby and Swamp. All these plans include unlimited disk space and bandwidth. For customers with higher demands, there are several packages for reseller hosting and dedicated servers.

Hostgator provides support through email, fax, phone and live chat 24/7. They also guarantee a 99.9% uptime, granting customers a full month's refunds if they fail to keep deliver. Hostgator doesn't bind its customers to long-term contracts; the agreement can be canceled at anytime. If you should choose to leave within the first 45 days, you will receive a full refund with their money-back guarantee.

Total Score

92%

Company Information:

  • Location: USA - Texas
  • Founded: 2002
  • No. of Hosted Sites: > 1400000
  • Support Phone: 1.866-964-2867
  • Address:
    11251 Northwest Freeway, Suite 400
    Houston, Texas 77092
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Pros:

  • 45 day Money Back Guarantee
  • 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
  • 24/7 Free Live Chat Support

Cons:

  • They dont have Windows hosting

How We Rate:

We use a weighted average of the most important factors: Support response time, Support quality, Server uptime, Server response time, Features and Control panel usability.

Ratings & reviews of HostGator

Total rating - based on 1 Editorial Rating and 2 User Ratings

Reliability
7/10
Support - Knowledge
7/10
Support - Speed
7/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
7/10
Recommended by:
2 of 3 users (67 %)

Editorial Rating and Review

WebHostingSearch.com recommends HostGator

The popular hosting provider HostGator are relatively new in the industry but they are already providing services to more than 150,000 customers making them one of the fastest growing companies in the US. HostGator claim to "eat up the competition" and the quote is actually not far from the truth. Their products are of the highest quality and the customer support delivers exactly what you would expect and then some more.

In June of 2008 HostGator performed a satisfaction survey which showed that around 90 % of their customers were satisfied with the services they got from HostGator. We don't know if there's much more we can say about this hosting provider - check them out, we think that you will be more than pleased.

Reliability
9/10
Support - Knowledge
8/10
Support - Speed
8/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
8/10
Total score:
8.2 /10

User Reviews

06/05/09
Patrick recommends HostGator

So, what can I say about Hostgator? Well I can begin with mentioning that they've hosted my site for about a year now and I have no complaints. Everything has been working exactly as it should and their support-team is friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. I've personally never experienced any downtime such as the one "Lovie Hobbs" describes…

Reliability
9/10
Support - Knowledge
9/10
Support - Speed
8/10
Control Panel Interface
9/10
Overall Rating
9/10
Total score:
8.8 /10

03/05/09
Lovie Hobbs Does not recommend HostGator

I just recommended them to a customer for having high ratings and excellent service. The site has been down for the entire day !!! not good !

Reliability
2/10
Support - Knowledge
5/10
Support - Speed
6/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
4/10
Total score:
5.0 /10

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