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HostGator is a large privately owned web hosting company operating from multiple state in the art facilities in Dallas, Texas. HostGator was founded in 2002, since then they have grown rapidly and currently host around 400,000 web-sites. They are also widely considered to be the worlds leading provider of reseller web hosting accounts. At present they supply web hosting to in excess of 10,000 individual reseller account customers.

HostGator offers lots of different web hosting packages, and cater to a broad range of consumers. From the first time webmaster who needs simple, stress free web hosting for their personal site; all the way through to large corporations, who require specialist dedicated web hosting services.

HostGator's hosting packages can be split into three groups; standard shared web hosting programs (suitable to the vast the greater part folks), reseller hosting programs (these are mainly for individuals and businesses that wish to "resell" their account resources to consumers of their own), and finally dedicated server strategies (these accounts give purchaser their own server, so they don't have to share its resources with anybody else). Very few of us will every need a dedicated server so this review will concentrate on the shared web hosting designs that HostGator provide.

Features

HostGator's 3 key shared web hosting strategies are named: "Hatchling" (the entry level plan priced at $6.95/month), "Baby" (this is the most popular plan, and it is likely to satisfy the requirements of a really wide range of clients), and "Swamp" (much the same as being the "Baby" plan, but with increases in bandwidth and disk space, priced at $14.95/month).

For a full list of capabilities and a side by side comparison of all web hosting ideas you should visit HostGator's website here. Below is a review on the most important functions with the "Baby" plan, this is probably the most suitable package for most users, and it is our favorite plan.

Disk space 100GB - This amount has been recently upgraded by HostGator from 5GB to an enormous 100GB. All users are likely to find it impossible to exhaust this quantity of disk space.

Bandwidth 1000GB/month - Also increased is the bandwidth allocation, from 75GB to a seemingly excessive 1000GB. Again pretty much zero chance of utilizing all that, but it truly is nice to know that you definitely won't be facing extra charges for going about your limit, even if you have a extremely busy website(s).

Site Studio website builder - This is an awesome free program that will allow you to build your website from scratch. You have over 500 templates and color schemes to choose from. You need no HTML experience, or code writing knowledge. It offers the simplest possible way of designing a professional looking website inside of a pretty small space of time. However, there is no need to take my word for it, as HostGator provides us with a demo version in the software on their website!