Hostgator shared web hosting review
HostGator is one of the world's top 10 largest shared web hosting companies base in Houston, Texas . HostGator founded in 2002 is now currently hosting more than 2.5 million domains . HostGator having more than 300 employees provides 24 hours technical support and is the perfect choice incase you need to host your personal or business website .
HostGator offer 3 type of hosting plan known as the Hatchling , Baby plan and Business plan . Below are the hosting features provided by all 3 plans .
| WEB HOSTING PACKAGES | |||
| PLANS | HATCHING | BABY | BUSINESS |
| Bandwidth | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Disk Space | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Domains Allowed | 1 | unlimited | unlimited |
| Your Own Toll-Free Number | No | No | Free |
| Free Dedicated IP | No | No | Yes |
| Free Private SSL | No | No | Yes |
| Site Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Backups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 24x7 Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No Contract! | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 99.9% Uptime Guarantee | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free / Instant Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 45 Day Money Back Guarantee | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Adword | $50 Credit | $50 Credit | $50 Credit |
| DOMAIN/FTP FEATURES | |||
| Addon / Parked Domains | No | unlimited | unlimited |
| Anonymous FTP | No | No | Yes |
| Sub Domains | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| FTP Accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| SUPPORTED WEB HOSTING FEATURES | |||
| Wordpress hosting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MYSQL Databases | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| CGI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fast CGI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PHP 5 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ruby on Rails | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSH | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Perl | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chilisoft ASP | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Python | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cron | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frontpage | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Curl | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GD 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Magic | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming Audio/Video | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free Module Installation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-MAILING FEATURES | |||
| POP3 Accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Web Mail | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-mail Alias | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Auto Responders | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mailing Lists | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catch Alls | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spam Assassin | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mail Forwarding | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IMAP Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CONTROL PANEL FEATURES | |||
| Latest cPanel | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fantastico | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hotlink Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Soholaunch | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IP Deny Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Error Pages | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Blogs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Portals | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant PHPnuke | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Guestbook | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Forums | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant Counter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant FormMail | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redirect URL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Based File Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PW Protected Directories | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| phpMyAdmin | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WEBSITE/ FTP STATISTICS | |||
| AWStats (Real Time Updates) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Webalizer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Referrer Logs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Raw Log Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Error Logs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-COMMERCE FEATURES | |||
| Your Own Toll-Free Number | No | No | Free |
| Private SSL Allowed | No | Yes | Included |
| Dedicated IP | No | $2.0/Month | Free |
| Shared SSL | Yes | Yes | yes |
| osCommerce | Yes | Yes | yes |
| ZenCart | Yes | Yes | yes |
| Cube Cart | Yes | yes | yes |
| PRICING | |||
| 1 Year-$6.95/Mo | 1 Year-$9.95/Mo | 1 Year-$14.95/M | |
| 2 Years-$5.95/Mo | 1 Year-$9.95/Mo | 2 Years-$13.95/M | |
| 3 Years-$4.95/Mo | 3 Years-$7.95/Mo | 3 Years-$12.95/M | |
