Thursday, 12 September 2013

HOSTING Launches Cloud Crew Partner Program

HOSTING announced on Tuesday that it has launched its Cloud Crew partner program.
The new program offers exclusive benefits and dedicated support for channel partners, who include software companies, custom application developers, systems integrators, digital marketing agencies and IT service consultants.
The program offers three partner models to meet the needs of Referral, Wholesale and Associate partners, and compensation plans with no certifications or lock-ins, personalized onboarding and access to the HOSTING channel partner sales and marketing team.
The partner program offers 24/7 live technical support and co-branded marketing and channel partner programs.
“The Cloud Crew partner program allows our channel partners to grow their business faster and easier than ever before,” Bill Santos, executive vice president, solutions and sales, said in a statement. “We designed this program to help them offer exceptional value-added services to their customers with built-in performance, availability, SLAs, compliance and recovery.”
Partner programs are a solid revenue opportunity for web hosts, and since there are many programs for partners to choose from, compensation and support are critical elements of these programs.
HOSTING also hopes the technical-side of its business speaks for itself; a recent independent study by Cloud Spectator found HOSTING to perform 67 percent greater than Rackspace, and 167 percent greater than Amazon in overall system performance using Windows and 70 percent greater than both AWS and Rackspace using Linux.


Could Website Hackers be Chasing Hosting Customers Away?

A continual global survey of website owners that began last year has yielded some notable insight into the effects that hackers may have on hosters’ bottom lines.
Beginning in January 2012, and in cooperation with StopBadware, the Commtouch Compromised Websites Survey collected opinions from hundreds of North American and European website owners and administrators. Among the questions we were seeking to answer: Do website owners blame or leave their hoster after their site has been compromised by the bad guys?
Clearly, compromised websites continue to be an ever-attractive tool for cybercriminals looking to benefit from the misuse of reputable domains – harnessing their bandwidth and processing power resources, not to mention the hosting capabilities through the compromised web servers. And once a site has fallen victim to these guys, it turns out that it does indeed have a marked effect on how a website owner or administrator perceives their hoster.
Amongst the survey findings:
  • Only 14 percent of hacked site owners receive help from their hoster in fixing their compromised site.
  • Additionally, a notable 19 percent of hosters either outright refused to assist with a hacked site or simply did not respond to requests for help.
  • Webmasters were three times as likely to think about changing providers that charged extra or refused to assist than those offering complimentary help.
With more than 25 percent of website owners indicating they are considering leaving their hoster after they’ve been hacked, the bottom line is that hosters are undoubtedly affected by compromised websites – just one more example of the economic impact the cyber bad guys have on the global hosting community. There’s no doubt that this issue does not receive enough attention, especially given the fact that real customers and real revenues are being lost.


PHP And MySQL Scaling: Preparing A Startup For Growth

MySQL and PHP are an excellent foundation for startups that plan to scale their infrastructure from the inception of their business.
Online businesses start as a concept in the mind of an entrepreneur and they are often implemented on a single server or a small cluster in the beginning — there’s not much point paying for a large cluster of servers before you have even one user. Even the giants of the data center world started off this way: Google’s original hardware wouldn’t have impressed anyone.
googleservers
We all know what happened to Google: in less than five years they dominated the search engine market and occupied huge data centers with bespoke server designs.
Something similar, albeit on a smaller scale, is the dream of most entrepreneurs, but to get there smoothly they need to think about scaling from their original servers to something that can handle far greater loads. The scaling plan should be laid out well in advance of any need to grow, because if there’s no plan, when the time comes, scaling will be both more difficult and more expensive than necessary.

Scalable By Design

One way to scale is to progressively load a server up with more hardware or move to gradually more powerful machines, but that has obvious limitations and can be needlessly expensive. When we talk about scaling, we mean horizontal scaling, which is the process of scaling out with clustered and load balanced servers.
MySQL and PHP are well-suited for building applications that can smoothly scale. The are three major concerns when planning for scaling a startup’s infrastructure.

Software Stack

Choosing the right software stack is crucial for smooth scaling. For example, if you choose to base your web application on MySQL and PHP but fail to use a control panel that will allow for the easy addition of extra MySQL server nodes and load balancing between them, your business will have considerable difficulty growing without replacing key parts of its stack.

Caching

Caching can be implemented at various points in a site or application’s infrastructure to improve the performance of existing hardware. Users of MySQL and PHP should investigate:
  • Memcached — Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system. It caches data objects from a backing store, like a MySQL database, and can be distributed across multiple servers, allowing for a large performance boost when compared to running queries in the database for frequently accessed data.
  • APC (Alternative PHP Cache) — APC is an opcode cache for PHP that increases the performance of PHP applications by caching the operation codes of frequently executed PHP functions.

Clustering

At the heart of any scaling strategy is the ability to quickly add relatively low cost nodes and load balance between them. MySQL can be easily configured to use a number of servers as slaves for reading and master for writing, so if you plan for a horizontal scaling strategy, MySQL + PHP is an excellent combination.
Planning in the early stages of a startup is essential for ensuring that performance and availability remain constant throughout the growth phase without incurring unnecessary expense.


Friday, 6 September 2013

Which Web Host Do You Need? Six Small-Business Plans Compared

Websites don’t build themselves. They require a considerable investment of energy, expertise, and design know-how to construct and launch. But building a site is only half the story: Websites also have to be hosted on servers, ready for--you hope--the thousands of people who are dying to read your content, hire your firm, or pay for your services.
A comparison of the pricing and basic features of six Web hosts.
Much like the servers that websites reside on, Web hosting services are rapidly approaching commodity status, as providers offer many of the same features while racing to the bottom on pricing. But although many Web hosting services look alike and cost about the same, appearances can be deceiving--there are nontrivial differences, particularly among higher-end plans. (Check out “Understanding Web Host Plans” for more details on what various terms mean.)
While hundreds of options are available, this article takes a closer look at some of the big players (along with a few smaller ones). The chart shown here outlines several basic features:
Pricing: What will all of this cost you? All prices are rounded to the nearest dollar, and generally reflect the cheapest long-term contract available. Remember that discounts, promotions, paying up front, and signing up for multiyear contracts can cause these figures to fluctuate considerably.
Catch-all email: Does the host offer a service to route all email sent to any address (whether or not that address has been set up) to a catch-all inbox?
Email autoresponders: Is a service that can automatically respond to incoming email included?
Static IP addresses: Does the site provide static IP addresses (for an additional charge)?
24/7 phone support: Is round-the-clock support available at no charge?
Another chart, on the second page of this article, compares site-building tools and other features for developers.
We chose not to focus heavily on ISP-delivered Web hosting services, since generally you can purchase them only if you use that ISP for your Internet access. However, a basic plan usually comes free with your monthly account, and if your needs are (very) simple, using such a plan beats paying for a separate Web host.

Comcast

Let’s be real: The only reason anyone would host a business website with Comcast or another ISP is because it’s free, included with the price of your Internet service. And with that free service, you get what you pay for: Comcast allows an ultrabasic website with a maximum of three pages, no shopping carts or extra site tools, and just 10MB of storage space and a 100MB data-transfer limit each month. The management interface is spare.
This kind of service may fit some business users just fine, namely the ones who simply want to put a calling card on the Internet in order to stake their claim to a domain name, build up a little SEO, and provide contact information to prospective customers. But for most businesses, basic ISP hosting just won't cut it for their needs.
You can upgrade the service plan so that it's competitive with other hosts, but prices escalate exceedingly quickly. Comcast’s most expensive offering, at a stunning $80 added to your bill per month, is in line with the $4 or $5 monthly service plan that you can get from virtually anyone else.

BlueHost

BlueHost built its Web hosting management interface around the cPanel control panel, a truly ugly and utilitarian system that is nonetheless the industry standard today. cPanel is designed for pros who know what they’re doing, and BlueHost offers little hand-holding if you need help getting started (although the company promises average tech support hold times of less than 30 seconds).
But what BlueHost lacks in friendliness it makes up for in exhaustiveness: With over 75 installation scripts at hand, you can point and click your way to building just about any kind of website--blog, wiki, e-commerce--without a lot of fuss. The service plan is unremarkable yet comprehensive and--the big draw for most BlueHost customers (including this writer)--cheap. Pro packages can reach $20 a month, but most customers squeak by on the less-than-$4-per-month basic plan.

1&1

You surely know the name--any computer-magazine reader should be familiar with 1&1, thanks to its generous print-advertising budget. 1&1 lets you configure your service in one of two ways: either with a traditional Linux or Windows hosting plan, or with a unique plan called 1&1 MyWebsite.
The main difference between the two is that the latter includes the MyWebsite website-building app, a surprisingly powerful and easy-to-use system that gives you drag-and-drop design capabilities and hundreds of templates to use on your hosted website. We found using MyWebsite even easier than setting up a site in a simple tool like Blogger, and businesses with modest needs will probably love the features. It’s just a shame that MyWebsite isn’t also included as an option with the traditional hosting options. If you go with a more standard Linux hosting account, the default site-building tool you get is a much less exciting app called 1&1 WebsiteBuilder.
Beyond those tools, 1&1’s control panel is decidedly limited, and a bit confusing. But once you find the boatload of install scripts available, you'll discover that they're among the best in the industry. Along with various homegrown apps (including its own shopping-cart system), 1&1 supports a bevy of industry-standard add-ons, and it even has mobile website management and monitoring tools for your smartphone. 1&1 also touts its uptime, noting that it stores user data simultaneously in two separate data centers located 20 miles apart to guard against disasters.
If you do consider 1&1, remember to skip the stripped-down Starter package. The Unlimited and Business plans are available for essentially the same price, and offer much more in the way of features.

LunarPages

LunarPages doesn’t look particularly different or distinguished next to the competition, but the company says that it focuses on enterprise-class customers, and it can rattle off a list of big-name clients.
That said, LunarPages promised us that its services are “open to everyone,” with a variety of plans and pricing levels that start below $4 a month. LunarPages' wide and bewildering range of plans can be a bit daunting; but if you need colocation, Microsoft Exchange, or managed services (which give you a hook into a live technician who can troubleshoot your site for you), LunarPages has options readily available.
LunarPages’ management interface is called LPCP (LunarPages Control Panel), and cPanel is available for an extra $2 a month. Power users may actually want to spring for it: Though LPCP is easy to get around with, it’s decidedly simplistic--almost cartoonish. The basics--webmail, backups, and the PageMason website building wizard--are here, but anything fancy takes a bit of digging.

GoDaddy

GoDaddy may be the registrar and Web host that everyone loves to hate, but there’s no need to be too tough on these guys. GoDaddy has plenty of options that help it compete quite handily in this industry.
GoDaddy’s biggest selling point as a Web host is its promise of “dynamic traffic management,” using a cluster of servers to manage all customers’ content, and promising that a website will stay up even if one server happens to go down.
That sounds just dandy, but GoDaddy’s interface is so convoluted and, frankly, slow that we were happy merely to get our test site up in the first place. (When we first set up ourWordPress installation, GoDaddy promised us that it would be live “within 24 hours.” Although GoDaddy beat that promise by at least 23 hours, the mere threat of that kind of delay seems scary enough in today’s breakneck business world.)
In addition, GoDaddy’s dashboard is not immediately obvious and intuitive, and it feels like a relic of the ‘90s that has been upgraded bit by bit, by hundreds of different programmers. Finding the tool you need often requires a trip to the Help system. (Hint: Install scripts are buried under the 'Go Daddy Hosting Connection' icon.) And once you get there, the mechanics of setup can become even more baffling the deeper you drill.
That said, GoDaddy was kinder than most about holding our hand through the setup process, so newbies might be wise to consider this service.

GreenGeeks

Like many other hosts, GreenGeeks uses cPanel for website management, and anyone familiar with cPanel's charms will find nothing unusual here. In fact, it’s so generic that the company doesn’t even put its name at the top of the management screen.
That’s strange, because GreenGeeks is actually one of the most unusual Web hosts in this roundup, as its operations are energized completely by wind power--or rather, the company offsets its power usage by purchasing three times the amount of its utility bills in wind-energy credits. The company may not have windmills on the roof, but it’s still a good start if you’re looking to do something positive while selling your widgets to the masses.
Despite its attempts at greenness, GreenGeeks is still very affordable, with long-term plans costing less than $5 a month. Otherwise, it’s comparable, features-wise, to the rest, aside from the somewhat limited hours on phone-based support.

Shared Web Hosts Compared

A comparison of the deeper features offered by six Web hosting services.
For a comparison of deeper features that these six Web hosts offer to site builders, check out this table. Here's how to read it.
Programming languages: Beyond the basics (HTML, JavaScript, and SQL tools), which coding languages does the service support?
MySQL databases included: How many separate MySQL databases are included, and at what price levels? (Generally a separate database is required for each site you operate.)
Site building tools and apps: Which website creation tools does the company make available for script-based installation? (A select listing of major offerings are included here; many hosts provide selections of additional, specialized tools.)


Web Hosting Reviews Are A Cesspool. Review Signal Wants To Fix That

Have you ever tried to search for reviews of web hosting services? Results typically fall into two categories: A) Anecdotal experiences and B) Spammers trying to cash in on affiliate programs. It’s nearly impossible to get an idea of what hosts actually have a good reputation.
Kevin Ohashi, a former moderate of the popular Web Hosting Talk forum, wants to change that. Ohashi did he master’s thesis on sentiment analysis, which gave him the idea of using Twitter to determine which hosts have the most satisfied customers. Thus Review Signal was born.
Ohashi admits that sentiment analysis is an imprecise science. He says that a 60-70% accuracy rate is really good in sentiment analysis. But if a user goes to the front page of Review Signal and sees three or four obviously miscategorized tweets, that discredits the whole site. So Ohashi is focusing on confidence over completeness. If Review Signal isn’t extremely confident that it has the correct sentiment of a particular tweet, or whether the tweet is referring to a specific web hosting service, that tweet will be thrown out. That means settling for a smaller sample size, but better credibility. It also means that Amazon Web Services can’t yet be ranked as a web host because there are too many inaccurate results, but Ohashi says AWS is a bit of an outlier of a web host anyway.
Review Signal screenshot
He also admits that keeping spammers from gaming the results won’t be easy. “It’s going to be a constant battle,” he says. “Google fights that fight every day with SEO.” He spends a lot of time looking at the tweets that are analyzed and tweaking the algorithms so that bad results are thrown out and he’ll continue to do so. Also, users can vote on whether particular reviews are helpful.
And he points out that he has been collecting tweets for a year and a half so he’ll be able to spot it if a company has a big spike in positive reviews. He’s already seen one non-malicious case in which a host had a sudden spike in positive sentiment. It was the hosts anniversary and many users were posting “happy birthday” messages. He says that he did adjust the algorithms a little bit to throw out reviews that were just something along the lines of “happy birthday,” but he did keep tweets that said something along the lines of “happy birthday, been a happy customer for years.”
I asked him about whether saw any trends regarding GoDaddy’s outage or any of the bad publicity the company has had over the years. He said he has data from several incidences: the Super Bowl ads, the former CEO’s elephant hunting fiasco, the company’s position on SOPA and the recent DNS outage. Only the recent downtime has had any noticeable impact.
Sentiment analysis of GoDaddy on Twitter
By posting the tweets that are being analyzed on the site he hopes to bring more transparency to the process of ranking hosts. Ohashi does have affiliate links on the site, but he says he doesn’t let it influence the rankings. For example, Linode, which doesn’t have an affiliate program, is one of the top ranked host on the site. For now this might be OK, but if the site grows both the distrust and the temptation (even subconscious) to tweak the algorithms in favor of affiliates will likely grow — especially since he has to hand pick the hosts that are ranked. So I’m guessing he’s going to have to find another business model eventually.
However, he dismisses the idea of selling brand monitoring services — there are plenty of companies in that market already. He wants to be a consumer business. He says he’d also like to get into other verticals. He says he’ll start by adding review of related services, like domain registrars and e-mail providers. But he’d like to get into other areas, such as movie and entertainment reviews as well. The key, he says, will be in getting representative data. Twitter works really well for hosting reviews, but it won’t work well for all types of products and services.
Another challenge he will face is access to tweets. For now he’s just using the Twitter search API, but that’s shutting down. As the site grows he’ll probably need to get access to the firehose, or get access to search results from someone who does. That will increase his costs.
Challenges aside, it already looks like a huge improvement over the status quo. Let’s hope it stays that way.

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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Bluehost review – BlueHost sucks? Is this true?

Just like Hostgator, Bluehost was launched in 2002 and is still among the leading web hosting providers. Bluehost is a bit less popular than Hostgator but it doesn’t mean that it is lower quality web hosting provider. Bluehost is not that popular because they offer only shared hosting plans and reseller accounts but they are missing VPS and dedicated servers, at least at the time I wrote this review.
bluehost frontpage
This was the first hosting I chose when I started my online ventures and I still use it for few of my sites but I am slowly moving to VPS and dedicated servers as these websites are growing and shared hosting is not the best option for large and heavily trafficked website. Bluehost advertises that they offer unlimited bandwidth but in reality you will notice that your website becomes slower when you have a lot of users on your website at the same time. This isn’t just for Bluehost but for all shared hosting providers, but you are paying them less than $5 a month so you have no reason to complain about it if your website gets over 10,00o page views a day.
I chose Bluehost because of lot of positive reviews on webmaster forums and other websites and I don’t regret my decision because it offers great price/quality ratio and it all what matters if you are looking for shared hosting. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for websites with over 10,000 page views a day and for websites that needs a lot CPU resources and server performance because shared web hosting has its limits. Personal blogs, small websites, portfolio or other such websites will run well with Bluehost. I have tested it with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, vBulletin and other platforms and didn’t notice any problems.

BlueHost Pricing

Prices are a bit higher that for Hostgator but you can get some special discount codes and find other promotions to get the best deal. Right now you can get unlimited hosting account at Bluehost for $4,95 a month but I guess there are some coupon codes to get down this price to half. Personally I paid $35 for first year with coupon code so most likely you will be able to get similar price.
Price gets higher after first year because you can’t use coupon codes anymore or at least I couldn’t when I last time had to pay for my hosting. The same thing is for most shared hosting providers, first years comes a lot cheaper than second and third year because first year is used to convince you to use their service and most likely you will stick around for longer. It takes some time to transfer domains and websites to another domain registrar and web hosting provider so you will end up using the same hosting for longer than just one year. This is why web hosting providers does everything to convince new customers to singup with their services.
Bluehost offers reseller account but I haven’t personally used it but I am sure that it is as good as its shared web hosting plans.  Cheapest reseller web hosting comes for $19.95/month and it will be enough to host around 100 medium sized websites for your clients. If you offer web development and web design services then web hosting is great addition to your service. You will get long term relationships with your clients so you will be able to remind them for your services now and then. This is the best thing you can do to maintain relationships with your clients and I recommend such approach if you are thinking in long term.

Bluehost Performance

Bluehost advertisers their shared web hosting as unlimited but the truth is that it has its limits just like any shared hosting. However these limits are not strictly limited by bandwidth, disk space, number of domains, number of users or other but you will find these limits eventually. At least I did. I was hosting technology blog with Bluehost for ages but it received only around 60,000 page views a month which is OK for shared web hosting. I decided to hire writers for this blog and did some promotions and within 3 months my website started to receive 10,000 page views a day and I noticed a massive slowness during evenings when I got most visitors to my blog. I monitored my blog for few days and realized that shared web hosting is too small for such technology blog and I moved it to Rack Space Cloud Servers.
Most of you will never get 10,000 page views a day for your blogs and websites so you can use shared web hosting because it is much cheaper than my current Cloud Server from Rack Space.
The problem with Bluehost was that they are limiting CPU usage and more visitors means higher demand. Shared hosting is built in a way that you can’t reach too high bandwidth usage because you are limited to CPU resources but it is not written anywhere in the Bluehost website or at least I couldn’t find anything like that.
To make matters worse, web hosting account gets suspended if you are using too much resources during one hour. This is due to the fact that they try to protect other website on the same hosting. Hosting can be suspended because of hackers, faulty scripts and plugins that uses too much CPU resources. I got my website suspended a couple of times because I misconfigured W3 Total Cache plugin and when I received too many visitors it caused server to crash. Since your website is hosted with thousands of other website, shared hosting providers will suspend such accounts to protect other website on the same server.

Bluehost Control Panel

Bluehost also uses cPanel for their shared hosting accounts. It means that you will get the same users experience you can find on Hostgator, Bluehost, WebHostingHub and other shared hosting providers. Bluehost has Simple Script installer so you can install dozen of most popular scripts with few clicks. This includes, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, bbPress, Magento and many others.
Bluehost cPanel
Bluehost reseller account comes with WHM hosting manager so you can limit disk space, bandwidth, number of databases, domains and other metrics via simple web interface. No programming knowledge is required because you can get done everything via this simple interface.
Bluehost SimpleScripts
Overall Bluehost Control Panel is no different from other hosting providers. It has customized cPanel design and functionality but if you have used any cPanel version then you will easily adopt to this.

Affiliate Program

Bluehost pays $65.00 per referral which is reasonable amount. Not the market leading but still among the best payout in the market. I recommend to use their affiliate program because it so easy to sell good service and Bluehost really is one such service. Some other hosting providers pays up to $125 for referral but most of these services are not really reliable and users will end up asking for refund and you will lose your affiliate commission.
Bluehost affiliates
Bluehost offers various banners and referral link options so most likely you will be able to find one that suits your needs. If not you can build custom links and banners and use them on your campaigns. Few friends of mine are making a lot from Bluehost and other hosting affiliate programs but you need to have some unique approach because of really high competition in this niche. Make sure you know what you are doing before you jump into hosting business because many players in this niche has millions in funding and a lot of developers behind their backs.

Bluehost Reliability

I have used Bluehost for years and I have noticed only few downtimes but I always got explanation what went front and how long does it took for them to solve this problem. No web hosting providers guarantees 100% uptime but Bluehost is one of the closest to this magic number. I don’t know how they have achieved this uptime but I guess they have nearly perfect system in place.
Few times my websites have been down but it turned out that I misconfigured some scripts so my website just crashed. Few times the same thing happened when I was using the wrong DNS records and again that was my fault instead of Bluehost’s.
No web hosting can run without downtime but Bluehost won’t disappoint you if you re looking for reliable shared web hosting for small and medium sized websites.

Support

Bluehost support usually responds within few hours which is OK for shared web hosting providers. Support usually are very knowledgeable and can solve any complex problem. They have 3-tier support and in most cases when I had to contact them the guys from 3rd tier was able to solve my problems. My problems were related to web hosting configuration in general because some of my scripts needed some very specific settings and luckily Bluehost allowed me to run these scripts.
Haven’t had any cases when support refused to help or said that it is impossible. They did this one extra step to please customer so I can recommend their support. You won’t be disappointed if you will chose Bluehost.

The Good

  • Support
  • Reliability
  • Cares about customers
  • Free domain

The Bad

  • Not unlimited web hosting
  • Price for second year/term is not as appealing as for the first year
  • CPU resources are limited
  • No VPS and dedicated servers for scalability

Overall

Bluehost is among the leading shared web hosting providers and it achieved this because of great support and reliability. I recommend this web hosting for small businesses, personal websites, blogs, online portfolio and many other similar websites that doesn’t exceed 10,000 page views a day. Price could be a but more appealing but you can get coupon code to get it for much cheaper price.
Bluehost won’t disappoint you because it is great shared hosting providers and unless you are looking for VPS or dedicated server this is the right bet. Nice price/quality ratio which is most important factor for rating shared web hosting.
You can express your opinion about Bluehost on comment section below. Are you satisfied with it and what you would like to see improved or changed?


HostGator Review - Is HostGator Good or Bad?


  • 4.67/5 Average User Rating

  • Outstanding

HostGator is a very popular web hosting provider founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley and has exhibited a track record of explosive growth. In 2006 HostGator served 200,000 registered domains, in 2008 it was named in the top 25 of fastest growing companies, and in 2012 it served over 8 million domains.
In this HostGator review, I’d be talking about some features that make HostGator the top 1 web hosting provider.

HostGator Web Hosting Plans

As mentioned previously, HostGator has many different hosting solutions to fit your aims, but what really sets them apart from any other hosting site is the amount of options that are available to fit time frame and budget. There are three plans that vary in prices and features.
    HostGator review web hosting plans










  • Hatchling Plan - Starts @ $3.96/mo*
    • Single domain
    • Unlimited disk space
    • Unlimited bandwidth
    • Shared SSL certificate
  • Baby Plan - Starts @ $6.36/mo*
    • Unlimited domains
    • Unlimited disk space
    • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Business Plan – Starts @ $10.36/mo*
    • Unlimited domains
    • Unlimited disk space
    • Unlimited bandwidth
    • FREE private SSL & IP
    • FREE Toll Free Number
Check HostGator Plans and Pricing

Trusted Server With 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Throughout the years HostGator has by no means failed me as a dependable hosting service. I’ve barely noticed any downtime.
HostGator hosts a lot more than 8 million domains, and they’re pretty open about their employees, resources and services.
HostGator Datacenter
Notably, they don’t allow overselling, so the capacity you’re given is the capacity you’ll actually get.
Even if your site goes down, HostGator support will always be there to help you out in fixing issues.

Supreme Customer Service

Customer service is the foundation of any successful business and HostGator is known to have an outstanding support service.
There are various ways to contact the support staff, but you might want to check their forums first for any particular question you may have as it is probably already answered there.
Support is available 24*7*365 and you can contact them using different methods. You can create a ticket or use the live chat feature or make a phone call.
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HostGator Speed Test

Speed is an important factor to consider before choosing a web host. I’ve used Pingdom speed testing tool to run a speed test on  HostGator.com and here’s the result.
HostGator loaded in under a second which is absolutely amazing. According to the tool, HostGator site is faster than 92% of all tested websites.
HostGator Vs BlueHost Website Speed Test
HostGator Added Extras
1) Toll-Free Number – The business shared plan on HostGator contains a totally free toll-free number for US callers. Optionally, this could be extended to Canadian customers for an additional charge per contact.
2) One Click Script Installer – Most packages include SiteBuilder, SiteStudio, Fantastico (a range of PHP scripts), osCommerce, WordPress, Joomla, one-click installs as well as a host of capable stats packages.
3) Free Advertisement Credits – HostGator also give $100 AdWords credit on all shared hosting plans, and reseller accounts get a free of charge upgrade to an eNom domain reseller account. This needs manual set-up, but it’s a quick and painless method that takes a couple of minutes.
4) 4500 Free Templates – You also get 4500 professional hand-picked templates that you can install on your website within a few seconds.
5) Easy Site Builder – HostGator’s FREE Weebly SiteBuilder allows you to easily create a professional website within minutes.

Do I Recommend HostGator?

The truth is I constantly recommend HostGator and I myself use it to host my blogs. With cheap hosting plans, great customer service and a 99% uptime guarantee, HostGator is a perfect choice.
HostGator has been excellent for me and I can guarantee you wouldn’t be disappointed with its service. Register with HostGator now and you will come to why HostGator is the most recommended hosting provider.

HostGator Coupons

Use HostGator Coupon : GREEN25OFF for Flat 25% Discount.
Use HostGator Coupon : GREEN99OFF for 1 cent hosting ($0.01).
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HostGator Coupon

Still Not Convinced HostGator is the Best?

If you are still not convinced HostGator is the best, check out the comments below. See what existing real customers have to say about HostGator or BlueHost.

 Pros

♥ Various Hosting Solutions
♥ 99.9% Uptime
♥ Affordable Plans
♥ Free Advertising Credits
♥ Discount Coupons

 Cons

♣ No Free Domain