Hostgator
Hostgator
Company Overview:
Company History: HostGator.com LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 7,000 servers under management
Management Team:
Current President and CEO: Brent Oxley
Chief Technical Officer :David Collins
Chief Operating Officer: Lance Custen
Chief Marketing Officer: Chad Bean
Director of Human Resources: Brandi Banks
Support Manager: Josh Banks
Senior Webmaster: Brian Modansky
Customer Service Manager: Douglas Hanna
Deputy Chief Technical Officer: Patrick Pelanne
Date Started/Founded: Company was founded in 2002
Location
Houston, Texas ( Headquarters )
11251 Northwest Freeway, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77092
United States of America
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Av. Evandro Lins e Silva,
840 Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
+55 21 2178 2368
Employees: More than 200 staff members.
Contact information
Toll Free : 1-866-96-GATOR (42867)
Local : 1-713-574-5287
Fax (Billing) : (281) 476 - 7800
Fax (Abuse) : (281) 476 - 7801
Product/Service Offerings other than hosting
Website Assistance
Merchant Services
Domain Registration
SSL Certificates
Script Installation
Interesting Statistics
More than 225,000 customers
More than 200 staff members.
In August 2009, Inc. Magazine recognized HostGator as the 239st fastest growing private company in the United States.
Won a Web Hosting Top Outstanding Host Award.
Won a Web Host Directory #1 Budget Hosting Award.
Won a WebHost-Guru.com's 2008 Green Host of the Year
Won a Hosting-Review.com Best Reseller Hosting Award 2005.
Live chat available: Live chat is available 24/7
Green/Environmentally friendly initiatives: Yes.All of HostGator's shared and reseller servers are powered and cooled by wind power generated in our home state of Texas.
Key Features ‐ General Information about core hosting features. (NOT PLAN SPECIFIC)
a. Reliability: Very Reliable
b. Customer Support: yes
c. Technical Support: yes
d. Describe the infrastructure and hosting environment: HostGator houses servers in four of The Planet's Dallas, Texas-area datacenters. Ranging from 22,000 to more than 78,000 square feet, these world-class datacenters contain top of the line technology to ensure that servers stay cool, secure, and up at all times. The datacenters feature redundant power, HVAC, and fire detection systems, and are monitored 24/7 by both HostGator and The Planet's Network Operation Centers.
What control panel software do they use: Yes,cpanel
Do they offer website builder: Yes
Hosting Plans ‐
| Plan Name | Hatching | Baby | Business |
| Storage | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Bandwidth | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Email Accounts/Size limits: | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Hosted Domains: | 1 | unlimited | unlimited |
| Platform | |||
| Domains Allowed | |||
| Pricing | Setup: Free Pay 3 years @ $4.95/mo Pay 2 years @ $5.95/mo Pay 1 years @ $6.95/mo Pay Monthly @ $8.95/mo |
Setup: Free Pay 3 years @ $7.95/mo Pay 2 years @ $8.95/mo Pay Monthly @ $9.95/mo |
Setup: Free Pay 3 years @ $12.95/mo Pay 2 years @ $13.95/mo Pay Monthly @ $14.95/mo |
| Private SSL Available | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shared SSL Included | Avilable | Avilable | Avilable |
| Static IP Price per month if available | No | Available @ #2/mo | Free |
| MySQL Databases included in plan, Number and Storage Space | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| What freebies come with the hosting plans |
* 45-days money back guarantee. |
* 45-days money back guarantee. * Google AdWords Credit $50 |
* 45-days money back guarantee. |
| Who is this plan good for | Allows 1 domain hosting, The starter plan is good for personal websites, blogs for a simple and manageable webhosting. | The basic hosting plan is good for small business companies, ecommerce stores, | The basic hosting plan is good for small business companies, ecommerce stores, |
Opinion
a. Pros: very gud site builder, money back guarantee, lot of free open source scripts
b. Cons:
Final Thoughts or remarks: very good for those who want lots of websites with different open source scripts installed