Hostgator is U.S hosting company founded in 2002. The CEO and president of Host Gator is Brent Oxley. The company has purchased certified Renewable Energy Credits representing 130% of the electricity used to both power and cool every shared and reseller servers.

Their serves are located in Texas, Dallas (The Planet), a large facility featuring state-of-the-art security, safety and cooling systems. The servers are constantly monitored by both The Planet and Hostgator Staff ensuring they are up and working all the time.

Hosting plans

Depending on what you want, Hostgator offers shared, reseller, vps and dedicated web hosting.

Here are the details of the plans:

All plans include cPanel, Fantastico - 1-click-script-installer ( install bulletin boards, chat, forums phpbb, smf, shopping cart for e-commerce sites -zencart and many more scripts), CGI, PHP 5, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, SSH, Perl, Chilisoft ASP, Python, SSI , Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD for Captcha (Visual Confirmation), 24/7 support. All features you will need.

When I signed with hostgator I had the option to register domain with them, or to use my old domain which I did. Payment options were CC - Credit Card(Visa, MasterCard), and PayPal. Read this HostGator coupon article to get maximum discount on hostgator hosting plans.

Host Gator uptime

So far since I monitor the uptime of my site(rsmkd.com - hosted on hostgator) the uptime is > 99.9%.

Take a look at this real-time link or the screen shot.

My review

Since I signed up with hostgator I experienced fast servers, superb uptime and great support. My tickets (2 so far) have been answered within 5-20 minutes, and the staff was very nice and knowledgeable. Also their live chat is always online. HostGator I will never change you!

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