Hostgator Review by calum – HostGator – Great

I am just writing down my views on HostGator.

I recently bought a HostGator Baby account for $10 a month and I can say now that I am very very please with it.

The account may only be a Baby Croc package, but it has far more than most other hosting companies (100Gb storage, unlimited domains etc.) and other hosting companies would charge 5 times as much.

I created my account and the billing process went well. I recieved a confirmation email but even after an hour I had not recieved my account details.

I then decided to contact live support on the website. I was talked to instantly and within 5 minutes I had the welcome and details of my hosting account.

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Dedicated, Reseller Web Hosting Firm, Host Gator, Debuts SEO Hosting

Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has premiered the official launch of its new subsidiary, SEO Hosting. Created to provide search engine optimization web hosting offerings, the new services have been designed to afford customers with the ability to host on multiple C classes.

The new service stemmed from customers regularly asking Host Gator for multiple C Class capabilities because of their belief that search engines will penalize sites that have the same C class and are linking to each other. With multiple C Class capabilities, customers no longer have to work with different hosting providers to overcome this problem and can consolidate all their sites on SEO Hosting.

Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator noted, ”With the importance of high organic rankings on web search engines, businesses are looking to maximize every advantage that will help them improve their results. We found that companies were signing up with multiple locations in order to host different C Classes. SEO Hosting allows these customers the ability to consolidate all their accounts onto a single server and host, saving them time and money.”

SEO Hosting is on Host Gator’s network with The Planet, where sites are on servers at all four of The Planet’s data centers in Dallas, TX and are accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring ten backbone providers.

Examples of some C Class hosting plans include:

- 5 C Classes for $7 per C-Class
- 30 C Classes for $5.75 per C-Class
- 50 C Classes for $4.75 per C-Class

Every hosting plan includes cPanel and WHM Control Panel, separate C Class IPs and nameservers, Linux hosting with Apache, unlimited domains, FTP accounts and MySQL databases. In addition, all hosting plans are covered by 24×7x365 support with instant backups and no contracts required. SEO Hosting is offering a 30-day money back guarantee with instant free setup for new customers.

Mr. Oxley added, ”The initial response has been extremely encouraging, and we expect the strong demand to continue. Customers are also reassured that SEO Hosting is backed by Host Gator’s reputation for top-notch service and support.”

SEO Hosting plans to offer useful tools in the future to its customers as well as provide search engine optimization advice from guest experts on its blog.

SEO Hosting is a division of Host Gator, a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting. SEO Hosting was created as a search engine optimization hosting service for businesses desiring to maximize web presence. SEO Hosting has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT and T and AboveNet.

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator is home to 60,000 customers and over 600,000 web sites. Host Gator has offices in Houston, Texas and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Hostgator Review by msh – PHP Problems

On the one hand it’s great that Hostgator installs PHP PEAR packages on request.

However, these packages also have a habit of suddenly disappearing, which results in completely disabling websites that use the packages. It seems that whoever is doing work on the system forgets about these add-ons and blows them away.

Support to get a site back up after Hostgator’s error is unreliable. It might happen quickly or it may take days. And the Live Chat is just a big joke — they provide no information and then ask if they can be of any additional assistance

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Hostgator Review by mylotter – moving to hostgator

My first day to hostgator, but a quite frustrating day!
I signed up yesterday night, and when I was uploading files I got a email to inform me that my account needs to be verified. then my account was suspended. I was told that I need to call hostgator or provide some documents to verify my information. At first, I decided to provide documents, but I found besides the citizen ID card, it also needs a copy “utility bills”. The citizen ID card is okay, but about the “utility bills” thing, it’s really not easy for me. I am from China, and still a still in universtiy. Things in China are a little different from USA. We students usually live in dorms, and have not any bills. I have no credit card, and I usually buy stuffs with cash. So I have not any bills at hand. I had to give it up, and turned to have a call. but it’s expensive to have a international call in China. So I downloaded Skype, and bought some points in the next morning. I have thought things might be okay if I called hostgator, while I was still asked to provide those documents to verify account after that call. I sent the copy of my citizen ID card, and got a reply that it’s not enough, and I still need to provide the “utility bills”. After several times’ talk with live support, half day passed by and things were still there. I had no choice but providing a copy of “utility bill”. finally, I knew, the utility bill thing is only a way to verify my address. I did have not any bills. At that time, I felt so embarrassed that I could not even convince others that I am just living where I am living! so frustrated. I tried to find something which may be as a proof. At last, in the afternoon, I found an application form for my Bank Card, and fortunately, they accepted that as a proof. But that’s not the end, and after a while, I got a email to inform me that I still need to provide a photo of myself holding my ID Card. That’s the first time for me to come across this kind of situation. I don’t know if that is the usual way in USA to verify the ID and address. I had not my camera at hand at that time, so I had to install a webcam to take a photo, then sent that funny photo to hostgator. I have read some reviews about how easy and fast to register and start a website in hostgator. but it seems it’s not the case for me. I don’t know if all the users need to verify their accounts, or only the international users, especially from China.

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Hostgator Review by Birmingham – First impressions are good

Well, I’ve got myself up and running with HostGator and I now find everything very user-friendly and easy, even if I had to ask a few questions to the live support team on setup.

Prices are great value too. Will be cool if I experience continued high standards

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Hostgator Review by michaelh613 – Support

My beef is support seems to be interested in just turning around a ticket and not in helping the customer. Your blog says you were hiring people for numbers and not quality and our trying to change that. At this point you have failed.

I’m new with hostgator and have alot to learn. I’ve had issues with your system not provisioning accounts properly and went round and round with support until they admitted it was their problem and fixed it. (The customer is an idiot was the first choice)

Now I have a problem where email isn’t logging in. I give you my setting and user id and password and then get asked what error message I am getting. How about testing the settings I gave you. (Either your server is rejecting a valid logon or I have made a mistake using your documentation, either problem can be determined by reproducing the steps I gave the rep but he couldn’t be bothered to do that)

I have a PHP script that works on 1and1.com but fails with you. Again the rep refuses to look what is different. It appears to be an connection string issue. Again I may be reading your documentation wrong but simply testing a good PHP script of your own that connects to my my SQL database would be a good test for your support to verify your server is working correctly. Again they can’t do this. They probably will eventually but after I have spent alot of time on it.

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Hostgator Review by othellobloke – Hostgator Service

My employment has a reseller through Hostgator… I also have a reseller by myself.

Been with both for nearly a year now. I’ve had no problems worth mentioning with my personal reseller (primary is www.ryanpaul.ca).

With my work one… we’ve had one or two problems with downtime. A swamp hosting account we’ve had and still have went down for about fifteen minutes about six months ago.

And currently… at the time of writing there’s some serious issues with downtime on all domains under my work’s reseller. This has been on and off all day and the tech’s are apparently working on it right now. Intermittently over the last four weeks we’ve had connectivity problems with all the accounts under our reseller (we’ll view a site, and it’ll time out and then work perfectly five minutes later).

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