HostGator Review: My Personal Experience

When I decided to start a blog, the first thing I did was to find a hosting company to serve my website on the Internet. Among other hosts, HostGator appealed to me after reading positive reviews about them. Apart from being ranked by Inc. Magazine as the 239^th fastest growing company in the United States and being one of the top ten webhosting companies around, HostGator has been known to live up to their promise.

I never regret hooking up with HostGator and I am glad that I never had to go through the nightmares of what others had experienced with other webhosts before they finally settled with HostGator.

I hit it right the first time.

And I hope that after you read the following features, you will also come to the same decision.

Excellent shared hosting packages

HostGator offers shared, VPS and dedicated webhosting with different packages. Since shared hosting is the perfect fit for small businesses and blogs, let me focus on shared hosting plans.

1. Hatchling Plan – limited to a single domain
2. Baby Plan – includes unlimited domains, which means that you only pay for $6.36 a month regardless of the number of domains that you want to own.
3. Business Plan – aside from unlimited domain, you also get private toll free phone number, a dedicated IP address, and private SSL certificate.

Every plan comes with 45-day money back and 99 % uptime guarantee. This is what I actually like about Host Gator. By offering a money-back guarantee, you somehow know right there and then how serious they are about their business. They will not offer that guarantee unless they are confident about their service.

Technical Support
I never experienced downtime with HostGator. But just to find out if every comment I read about their excellent technical support was true, I tried to contact them once. They have 27/7 toll free phone, chat, and email support. I tried both chat and phone support, and as far as I can tell, I couldn’t be more satisfied than my experience with them.

Option to have no contract

The $3.95 price comes with a contract for 36 months. But if you prefer to have no contract and wants to pay on a monthly basis, that is another option, although the monthly fee is different.

The option to have no contract is usually the deciding factor for most bloggers. We all know that not everyone can sustain their blog for a long time. So if you are a beginner, you might want to consider this option.

Easy to use Control Panel

Probably the best Cpanel you can find as they offer a lot of features including Fantastico script installer that will allow you install any open source script effortelessly. You can set up WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal in just a few steps. No technical knowledge needed. Brilliant and excellent for anyone who would rather concentrate on blogging and not bother with any technicalities.

Customer feedback on HostGator is overwhelmingly positive and I support their views. So if you are looking for a fast and reliable web host that offers exceptional support, be sure to check HostGator and find it for yourself.