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One of the web hosting companies that has stuck around for awhile, HostGator is worth reviewing as one of the leaders in providing cutting edge web hosting services to its customers. Let’s take a look at how their service has evolved, and where they are now with respect to offering the best web hosting your money can buy.
Started in a dorm room at Florida Atlantic University by then and now CEO Brent Oxley, HostGator (now based in Texas) has over 7,000 servers under its management and hosts over 2.2 million domains on them! This represents everything from one person businesses to Fortune 500 companies from more than 170 countries, and accounts for around 1% of the world’s internet traffic.
In 2009, INC. Magazine labeled HostGator as the 239th fastest growing company in America, and the 6th fastest growing privately held company in Texas. They are the largest reseller web hosting provider in the world.
However, for all their growth and success, HostGator remains remarkably accessible and customer service oriented. Trouble tickets are answered, and solutions reached in less time that you would think.
Long known as an economical web host, HostGator remains that. Plans start at $4.95 per month for the Baby plan, which allows you to host one domain, to the most popular plan at $7.95 monthly, which includes unlimited disk space, bandwidth and websites. Their incredibly popular reseller options start at $24.95, and they have dedicated servers available from $174.00 monthly.
Each plan is chock full of all the usual features you’d expect to find on a top flight web host. All of the latest software upgrades happen, and server security is top notch. They also boast the requisite 99.9% uptime.
Two recent developments at HostGator bode well for its continued growth and success. HostGator in the last few years has gone green! All of their shared and reseller servers are now 130% wind powered. This means that they’re turning the energy around, using Renewable Energy Credits. This is the energy equivalence of removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or conserving 5,654 barrels of oil. HostGator is determined to be the industry leader when it comes to being a green web hosting provider. Considering that the typical web server has the same climate impact as a 15mpg SUV, you can see the potential here.
The other news is that HostGator has now teamed up with iContact, a leading provider of email marketing services to small and medium sized businesses to handle their own email marketing as well as being available for HostGator clients. This teams two industry leaders with great products together, and can only bode well for consumers.
HostGator has been around awhile, but shows no signs of weakening its grip as a leader in the web hosting space. If you are in need of a great web hosting plan, then you would do well to check out HostGator!
