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HostGator Company Info:HostGator was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Brent Oxley in Boca Raton, Florida. They are one of the biggest hosting companiers, currently hosting over 700,000 websites and 1.8 million domains. They are also the internet’s number one reseller hosting provider with over 10,000 independent resellers. All Hostgator servers are in four datacenters in Dallas, Texas, owned by ThePlanet. HostGator has over 130 employees. HostGator Plans and Features:
The Hatchling Plan has Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Data Transfer. There is no contract and you can test their hosting for as short a period as one month with a 45 day moneyback guarantee. The hatchling plan is is less than the baby plan because you can only host 1 domain. Many times 1 domain is all that is needed. The Baby Plan, $7.95 per month, lets you host unlimited domains including addons and parked domains, plus Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Data Transfer, A free private SSL is thrown in the deal as well. The final Swamp Plan, $12.95 per month, steps up to Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Bandwidth. Another additional feature is anonymous FTP. With all accounts you can create unlimited email accounts, autoresponders, FTP accountss and MySQL databases. Most of today’s popular scripting languages are supported including cgi, php4 and php5, Ruby On Rails, SSH, Perl, Chilisoft ASP, Python, CronJobs etc. Additionally, you are offered over 52+ readymade one-click-install scripts. A small list of these includes b2evolution, WordPress, Drupal, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, Help Center, phpBB2 and of course Joomla, FAQMasterFlex, AccountLab Plus, PHPlist HOT!, Advanced Poll, dotProject, Soholaunch Pro Edition, PhpWiki, Agora cart, OSCommerce, Zen Cart and many, many more. All plans backed by HostGator’s 45-day money-back guarantee.
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| Overall rating | 9.8 | |
| Website Uptime | 9.5 | |
| Control Panel Features | 9.5 | |
| Customer Support | 10.0 | |
| Price | 10.0 | |
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| Website Uptime | 10.0 | |
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Host Gator - Would You Get Your Site Hosted By The
Sunday, 21 December 2008
I really recommend you Host Gator for many different reasons.
I have read many blog posts about how great and easy was to have your joomla site hosted with them.
So I when ahead And gave them a try and so far I'm enjoying their services and have not experienced any problems.
And using the Fantastico software to up-load and set up Joomla was easier than I thougght it was going to be.
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| Overall rating | 9.5 | |
| Website Uptime | 9.0 | |
| Control Panel Features | 9.0 | |
| Customer Support | 10.0 | |
| Price | 10.0 | |
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Excellent customer service and support!
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
One time, I used Fantastico Deluxe auto-installer to set up my Joomla CMS website. I noticed a menu was missing in the Joomla Administrator back-end page.
I emailed them twice -- the first time, it seemed they did not fully understand my question. I emailed them again (with more detailed description of my problem) and within 36 hours, they fixed the problem for me. The problem stemmed from the fact that I was using a "temporary" URL while my main production site was hosted by another company.
I was pleasantly surprised because I was expecting them to tell me what the problem was, and leave me to solve it myself.
I cannot really rate them for their uptime since I've only been their customer for less than 45 days. But, as far as customer support and price are concerned, I say I'll stick with Hostgator and I'll never look back!!
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The sign up was super easy. Within 1 minute of paying for the hosting we received an email with the initial setup details. Before we could copy all the Joomla files off the existing server we received a second email with all of the account details.
Thanks to a fast registrar our dns servers updated within 10 minutes of making the nameserver change. Everything wen smooth transferring the files and changing config.php.
When we logged into the administrator console of our joomla site and noticed that Host gator has php register_globals on. A perfect opportunity to test out tech support.
We oppened a chat session and about 4 minutes a tech replied back to us. We chatted a bit and a quick search of the knowledge base and forums and found that adding:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
to your .htaccess file. We have actually done this before but wanted to put the Host Gator Support system to the test.
The real evaluation will come over the next weeks and month when we see how fast the server is and how much uptime we have.
We will update this review with any new events and information