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HostGator Review

9.5
Editor Rating
9.3
User Rating
HostGator Review

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Hosting Plan Features

Disk Space: Unlimited
Data Transfer: Unlimited
Refund Policy: 45 Day
Domains Hosted: 1
Price: $4.95
Control Panel: cPanel
Edit DNS Zone File: No
Hosting Plan Types: Shared HostingBudget HostingBusiness HostingReseller HostingGreen HostingDedicated HostingVPS Hosting
Datacenter Locations: United States

Joomla Features

Joomla Auto Install: Yes
Fantastico: Yes
Ion Cube Support: Yes

MySQL Features

MySQL Databases: Unlimited
phpMyAdmin: Yes

Support Options

Email / Help Desk: Yes
Phone Support: Yes
Member Forum: Yes

Company Details

Company Headquarters: Houston, Texas
First Year in Business: 2002
Number of Employees: Around 260

Deals and Coupons

Coupons: JOOMLA for $9.94 off
SNOWMAN for 20% off
Use Coupon: www.hostgator.com

HostGator Company Info:

HostGator was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Brent Oxley in Boca Raton, Florida. They now host over 700,000 websites and 1.8 million domains, making Host Gator one of the biggest hosting companies.

All Hostgator servers are located in four Dallas, Texas data centers, owned by ThePlanet.  HostGator has over 260 employees and over 10,000 independent resellers.

HostGator Plans and Features:

  • Hatchling ($4.95)
  • Baby($7.95)
  • Swamp($12.95)

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.

Hosting Environment

Your account is administered on HostGator using the cPanel control panel. From here, you can configure any aspect of your account including your email addresses, FTP, website files, additional software etc. MySQL is managed through phpMyAdmin found within cPanel.

Joomla and HostGator

Joomla runs very well on HostGator's cPanel Servers.  We run several sites at HostGator and on different servers.  The results have all been good.

A live site currently running on HostGator: www.Paper-Shredder-Reviews.com

Joomla Install is available as a one-click-installation feature along with the Fantastico script that comes preinstalled. No technical knowledge is required for installing Joomla and the entire process can be done in less than 5 minutes.

Tech Support

HostGator sports an excellent support department that stands head-and-shoulders above most competitors. Technical support can be reached through toll free telephone, email and online chat all available 24/7.

There are also dedicated FAQs and a forums section with over 13,000 members participating.

HostGator Conclusion

HostGator is one of the hosting industry leaders. The company values its customers so highly that you can actually request for the owner to personally look into your issues. Not only that, you get good value for your money with their feature-rich hosting plans, backed by a 45 day moneyback guarantee.

Check out the HostGator billboard a few miles from my house:

HostGator Billboard in Atlanta

HostGator is one of the best options for Joomla.

Visit http://www.hostgator.com for more details.


Editor Review

HostGator: 9.5 out of 10
Excellent Hosting Company

Overall rating: 
 
9.5
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Joomla Hosting Reviews
Reviewed on February 04, 2008
 

Overview

Overview: One of the best hosts. Fast servers with excellent customer service, and they have the servers configured to run Joomla with out issues

Pros and Cons

Pros Great Customer Support
cPanel Severs
Fast Servers
Great Uptime

Review

For our reveiw we transferred an existing sites to Host Gator. One of the smoothest transitions we have experienced.

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
 
 

Visit http://www.hostgator.com for more details.


User Reviews

Average user rating from: 5 user(s)

Overall rating: 
 
9.3
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.2   (5)
Control Panel Features:
 
9.8   (5)
Customer Support:
 
9.4   (5)
Price:
 
8.8   (5)
 
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The best

Overall rating: 
 
9.3
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
8.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
9.0
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Reviewed by James
February 25, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Expert
How long have you used this host: More than 1 year

Pros and Cons

Pros Best support, speed and reliable

Review

Best support, speed and reliable. I have about 25 joomla setup in hostgator and all clients are perfectly happy. Good Work

 

So Much Better Than GoDaddy

Overall rating: 
 
9.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
9.0
Price:
 
8.0
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Reviewed by Brett
February 22, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Intermediate User
How long have you used this host: A month or less

Pros and Cons

Pros Uses CPanel
Joomla Sites Perform well on shared hosting
Good documentation
Cons A little pricier

Review

I created my first Joomla web site back in April 2009. Since I was a total newbie, I relied on a friend's recommendation to go with the cheapest GoDaddy hosting plan. Set up and install was easy enough on GoDaddy, but my site was SLOW from the very beginning and only got worse over time. Then I started experiencing problems getting JoomlaPack to work with GoDaddy after working flawlessly for months. Their help desk was basically worthless. If there was a problem, their pat answer is everything looks fine on our end, it must be how your site is scripted. During the day, it would sometimes take 15 seconds for a page to load. DNS lookups were taking almost 4- 5 seconds because of their oversold shared hosting environment.

I was advised by a more experienced Joomla developer to move off GoDaddy as it would save me a lot of headaches in the long run. He recommended Rochen and Hostgator. Of the two, Hostgator was more affordable. I found a coupon for 20% off my order and a $50 rebate for Hostgator and made the switch. I even had Hostgator move both my sites (domains) for me. The first was free and the second domain only cost me $35 to move. With the $50 rebate, i actually made money on the move. All i had to do was re-point to the new DNS servers on Hostgator.

Within a few hours it was done and the increase in site performance was immediately noticeable. at least 5 - 7 times faster and no degradation in performance during the day.

CPanel is much easier to use than GoDaddy's control panel and I can do everything in half the time on HostGator. One bonus benefit? People can actually access my site from work. It seems like GoDaddy was blacklisted by my work firewall, so i could even check on my site during the day or respond to any type of emergency situation. With over 1400 sites sharing the same IP address on my GoDaddy account, one of them was bound to be blacklisted. I couldn't even get to GoDaddy control panel. That all disappeared when i moved to Hostgator.



 

Very good hosting.

Overall rating: 
 
8.8
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
8.0
Price:
 
7.0
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Reviewed by Jeff Pence
October 20, 2009
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I have a client that already had their hosting with Host Gator and I had no previous experience. So instead of transferring to my reseller program I left it there. I was pleasantly surprised. So many so-called Joomla hosts try to do too many other things and fall short with Joomla. Joomla is the only cms I use and host gator is a great host.

 

Host Gator - Would You Get Your Site Hosted By The

Overall rating: 
 
10.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
10.0
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Reviewed by Ana
December 20, 2008
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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 went 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 thought it was going to be.

 

Excellent customer service and support!

Overall rating: 
 
9.5
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
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Reviewed by Serge G
July 15, 2008
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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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