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Is it worth to buy HostGator Business hosting plan?

CheapHostingChoice — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:20:42 +0000

HostGator started to offer web hosting services since 2002. They are one of the best web hosting providers that offer shared web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.

The Business hosting plan is the more powerful version of HostGator Baby plan. The Baby plan offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth, and you can host unlimited websites in one account. The Business plan comes with a free dedicated ip address, a free SSL certificate, and a free toll-free number.

Is it good enough for your business websites? Yes, you have everything to run an online business with HostGator Business plan. Comparing with many other business web hosting packages offered by other web hosting companies, HostGator Business plan is absolutely one of the best choices. Many business hosting plans do not include private SSL certificate and dedicated IP, and the prices are much higher that HostGator’s Business plan.

The business plan ($12.95/mo) is $60 more than baby plan ($7.95/mo). If you want to buy your own SSL certificate, like GoDaddy SSL Certificate is just $12.99 per year, you may like to choose HostGator Baby plan. In this case, you need to pay $2/mo for a dedicated IP address and $12.99/year for a SSL certificate (buy from GoDaddy). If you buy a SSL from other providers, HostGator will charge $10 to install it for you. The total monthly price will come to $11.03/mo, plus $10 SSL installation fee. It’s a little cheaper than $12.95/mo. But a free toll-free number is not included in baby plan.

Having a toll-free number is good for a business. But HostGator’s toll-free number is a forwarding-only service, and the service does not include voicemail or any other features normally offered with residential service. To use the toll-free number, you provide an existing number (US or Canada) where VOIPo can forward the calls. There is no charge for the number. The first 100 minutes you use each month are free. After 100, you will be billed 4.9 cents per minute directly by VOIPo. VOIPo bills HostGator a flat rate for all accounts on this plan to cover the first 100 minutes.

If you really need a toll-free number for your business, you may find a good deal from other toll-free number providers.

Overall, in my opinion, HostGator Business hosting plan is worth your money!

You can use coupon code to get 20% OFF.

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HostGator is at 239th position on 2009 Inc 5000 List

CheapHostingChoice — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:59 +0000

From the news of HostGator’s Press Releases, Inc. has ranked HostGator.com as the 239th fastest-growing privately owned company in the country on its prestigious Inc. 5000 list for 2009.

Inc.com, the daily resource for entrepreneurs, delivers how-to guides, advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses. The 2009 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must be U.S. based and privately held, for profit, independent, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue from 2005, and at least $2 million in 2008.

HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting including shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. The company provides hosting for over 2.2 million websites and supports more than 50,000 resellers worldwide.

HostGator’s revenue grew by over 896% during the measured period. In 2008, HostGator was ranked #21 overall, on Inc. 5000’s list with 2007’s revenue of $18.7 million. "Although we were ranked at 239 overall versus last year’s rank of 21, we’ve nearly doubled our revenue from 2007 to 2008 to $34.2 million," said Jay Weissman, Affiliate Director for HostGator.com. "And we have seen substantial growth in every service we offer."

While unemployment in the U.S. rose to 9.4% in July of 2009 from 5.7% in July of 2008 (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), HostGator has been able to add over 100 new positions for highly skilled technicians and systems’ administrators from its growth.

"A big portion of our growth has definitely come from small to medium-sized businesses understanding the value in having their own web site to be competitive in today’s marketplace," said Chad Bean, CMO of HostGator.com.

You can read more at: www.hostgator.com/press-releases/hostgator-web-hosting-ranks-239-on-2009-inc-5000-list.shtml

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HostGator Reached 200,000 Web Hosting Clients

CheapHostingChoice — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:55 +0000

HostGator, one of the largest web hosting company, has reached 200,000 active customers in Sept. 2009. They will break 300,000 within a year according to the trend of customer’s increase.

The HostGator.com domain was registered on October 10, 2002. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 7,000 servers under management. The over two million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

In addition to President and CEO Brent Oxley, HostGator’s management team consists of web hosting and technology veterans working together to ensure HostGator continues to grow and progress.

Here are some statistics about HostGator’s customers since it was founded in 2002.

* 2/1/2003: 112 active customers
* 2/1/2004: 1,031 active customers
* 2/1/2005: 6,892 active customers
* 2/1/2006: 21,434 active customers
* 2/1/2007: 50,213 active customers
* 2/1/2008: 92,752 active customers
* 2/1/2009: 157,432 active customers
* Sept.2009: 200,000+

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Spending 1 cent to get 4500 Free website templates

CheapHostingChoice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:59:51 +0000

Many people have no experience to build a website when they are looking for a web hosting company. They like to select a web host that offers free website builder. Many web hosts do offer free website builders with their web hosting packages, but most site builders just have hundreds of templates. With HostGator, you can choose from over 4,500 templates to build your sites.

If you are looking for a web hosting plan with Free website templates, HostGator Web Hosting is absolutely a good choice. Don’t have a HostGator account? Sign up to receive access to all templates for Free. Use coupon: hgc25 and get $9.94 off. You can use the coupon code for signing for just one month to test the services. That costs you only 1 cent for accessing all 4,500 website templates.

The templates includes following categories:

Accommodations
Accountants
Advertising
Animals & Pets
Antiques and Collectibles
Appliance Store and Services
Architecture
Art
Assisted Living Centers
Auto Dealers
Automotive
Beauty Salons
Blinds and Curtains Installation
Boats & Yachts Charters
Book Stores
Building Contractors
Business
Cafe and Restaurants
Camp Grounds
Camping Stores
Cell Phone Equipment
Children
Children’s Parties
Chiropractic Services
Cleaning / Maintenance
Clowns
Comedy Clubs
Communication Technologies
Computer Hardware
Consulting
Couriers
Craft Stores
DVD & Video Rental
Dentists
Driver Training
Education
Electricians
Electronics
Employment Agencies
Entertainment
Exterminators
Fabric Stores
Farming
Fashion & Clothes
Finance
Fine Artists
Fitness Centers
Flowers & Gardening
Food & Drinks
Fruit & Vegetables Stores
Funeral Services
Furniture
General Contractors
Gifts
Glasses stores
Guns & Gunsmiths
Hardware Store
Health & Beauty
Heating &Air Conditioning
Home Inspectors
Home Theatre Installation
Hosting
Hotels & Motels
Import / Export
Insurance Brokers
Interior Decorating & Design
Internet & Computer Technologies
Jewelry
Law
Lawn Care
Limousines
Lingerie Stores
Locks & Locksmiths
Magazine / Newspaper
Manufacturer
Martial Arts
Medicine
Modeling & Talent Agencies
Music
Music Lessons
Nanny Services
New Home Builders
Night Clubs
Online store
Opticians
Organizations & Associations
Painters
Pawn Brokers
Personal Pages
Pest Control
Pharmacy and Drug Stores
Photo & Video
Physicians & Surgeons
Plumbers
Pool Maintenance
Printers
Promotional Products
Real Estate
Religion
Roofers
School / Day Care
Security
Sporting Goods Retail
Sports & Recreation
Stationery & Office Equipment
Tanning Salons
Tattoos & Body Art
Taxi
Tourism & Travel
Toys Stores
Transportation
Tuxedo Rental
Watches Manufacture &Retail
Web Hosting
Web design
Wedding
Women’s Health Clinics

more information go to: www.hostgator.com

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One penny to test HostGator web hosting

CheapHostingChoice — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:17:27 +0000

If you are interested in HostGator web hosting package, but you are not sure if HostGator hosting plan is suited for your website, you have a chance to test the server and the services of HostGator by spending only $0.01 for a month.

There is no contract for HostGator web hosting. You may pay month to month and cancel your account at any time. The price of HostGator Baby Plan is $9.95/month. This is the most popular hosting plan featured by unlimited disk space and bandwidth, host unlimited domains, unlimited email accounts, free website builder, cPanel, Fantastico installer, 99.9% uptime guarantee, 45 day money back guarantee, 24/7 customer support, and more.

After your account has been set up, you can change your domain DNS setting to HostGator, upload website files, configure email account, install plug-ins like WordPress, create a database, and so on. You may visit your website from time to time to test the uptime and the loading speed. Don’t forget to find out some problems and ask questions to test the technical support. This is very important. Use different contact methods, phone call, online chat, support ticket, and email. You question should be answered in reasonable time frame and the problems should be solved properly.

HostGator offers a coupon for new customers. The coupon takes $9.94 OFF with your purchase. The coupon code is:"hgc25". You can use it to sign up a monthly Baby hosting plan. You only need to pay $0.01.

After your testing and evaluation to HostGator hosting services, you can decide whether to stay or not. If you like HostGator, you can sign up a longer payment plan to get some discount.

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HostGator money back guarantee and refund

CheapHostingChoice — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:12:33 +0000

45-day money back guarantee
HostGator offers a 45 day unconditional money back guarantee on shared and reseller hosting. If you are not completely satisfied with HostGator services within the first 45 days of your purchase, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount. The refund does not include administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases.

Cancellations and Refunds
There is no contract with HostGator shared and reseller web hosting plans. You may cancel your account at any time via a cancellation form. Refund requests for shared and reseller accounts after the initial 45 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time.

Note:
- Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For example, if you’ve had an account with HostGator before, then canceled and signed up again, or if you have opened a second account, you will not be eligible for a refund.

- The refund is only for customers who paid with credit card or PayPal. The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:
* Bank Wire Transfers
* Western Union Payments
* Checks
* Money orders

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Build your own web hosting company with HostGator reseller hosting

CheapHostingChoice — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:45 +0000

If you are planning to get into web hosting business, think about HostGator reseller web hosting plans. It is cheap, easy, and lucrative to have your own web hosting company.

All of HostGator reseller hosting plans allow you to create unlimited web sites under your own brand. You decide the price and hosting plans that you are going to sell to your customers. You pay monthly fee to HostGator and keep 100% of the money you collect from the sales.

HostGator gives you all the tools and support.

Your reseller hosting account control panel is called Web Host Manager. WHM is where you go to create your customer accounts. After filling in their account information you click "create." This will instantly set them up with their very own control panel – cPanel. This is where your customers administer their website. When they log into cPanel, they can create add-on domains, subdomains, email addresses, MySQL database, and much more without requiring your help.

All reseller accounts include WHMCS (WHM Complete Solution) or WHMautopilot billing system to fully automate your billing needs.

You will be able to sell domain names through a domain reseller account with HostGator discounted pricing.

HostGator offers FREE Site Builder that allows you and your customers to create a professional looking website in a few minutes. HostGator also provides thousands of Free templates for you and your customers.

RVSKin allows your customers to choose their language preference.

HostGator reseller hosting also includes 45 day money back guarantee, 24/7 technical support, Fantastico – over 50 Free scripts, and much more.

more information go to: www.hostgator.com

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Does HostGator Provide Backups?

CheapHostingChoice — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:13:44 +0000

According to HostGator’s TOS, HostGator is not responsible for files and data residing on your account. You take full responsibility for files and data transferred and maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on HostGator servers. HostGator backup service is provided to you as a courtesy.

HostGator creates their own weekly backups on the shared servers. However, you should not rely on this to keep your content safe. HostGator’s Backups made on every Sunday; and only the newest backups are kept. There is no guarantees about HostGator weekly backups to you. If you want HostGator restore your files using HostGator backups, you need to pay $15. If you can provide your own backup file, then it’s fee for the restoration.

Accounts found to be exceeding the 50,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from HostGator backup system to avoid over-usage. If you use more than 20 GB of disk space, HostGator will remove your account from their off site weekly backup, the databases will continue to be backed up.

You cannot schedule backups. HostGator does not supply a script which can backup your data.

You can download a full backup from HostGator cPanel, it’s easy to download and save the backup into your computer.

If you prefer to use FTP as an off server backup, you should be careful of HostGator’s TOS regarding to "file dumping" – A large number of files that are transferred from one place to another without any particular organization, as in copying media or backup files from your computer to HostGator server.

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