HostGator

HostGator.com is a privately owned webhosting company and it is based in Houston, Texas. It is one of the leading companies for shared, reseller and dedicated webhosting. Founded in the year 2002 by Brent Oxley, HostGator.com serves more than 150,000 customers with various products. They started with only 3 servers in the beginning and the now manages more than 5000 servers.

This company is constantly striving to improve the webhosting qualities and support system to satisfy all their clients. Survey reveals that almost 90% of their clients are happy and satisfied with the company. Major achievement includes recognition by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies of America. HostGator has joined hands with veterans from the field of webhosting and technology in order to ensure best quality products and service to their customers.

HostGator offers shared webhosting, reseller webhosting and dedicated webhosting at a much affordable price. Hatchling plan of shared webhosting costs $4.95 per month only and it goes upto $7.95 for baby plan and $12.95 for the business plan. The features are different for each plan but certain important aspects like site builder, support system available 24*7, instant backups, 99.9% uptime guarantee, 45 days money back guarantee, free instant setup and $25 credit for Google Adwords are common for all the plans.

Reseller webhosting is the second most attractive feature of this company with which you can actually run your own hosting company without having to buy the servers. Reseller hosting enables you to create unlimited websites under your own brand name. They have five plans with different prices and characteristics. The plans include Aluminum plan and it is the cheapest costing $24.95 per month. Other plans are the Copper Plan of $34.95 per month, Silver for $49.95 and Gold for $74.95. The highest paid plan is the Diamond Plan worth $99.95 per month.

The disk space and bandwidth increases with every higher plan. Company also offers more than 4500 HTML templates and flash templates absolutely free. You will also find a demo of site building in their official website which makes it all very simple to build your own website even without the web designing knowledge. People who are unaware of the process of site building can create their own website in just few minutes.

Dedicated webhosting is the third attractive feature of this company which has been designed to provide higher security, uptime and speed. The company manages the dedicated servers by giving you full access to your own servers. Virus protection, firewall, and automatic updates in the dedicated servers will take your business to a higher level.

Cost of basic package is $174 per month whereas the Pro plan costs $374 per month. Other two plans are known as Standard plan worth $219 and Elite plan of $279. It also includes domain transfer, script transfer, MySQL transfer and file transfer absolutely free of cost. It also provides free forums and E-commerce solutions to help build your business.

HostGator has launched a special discount of 20% for this spring and the offer is valid upto 1st of May. Support system of the company is excellent since it provides knowledge base, flash tutorials, forums for discussion and live chat.

The company is one stop solution for your webhosting needs and that too with affordable prices and excellent customer support.