If you know anything about hosting or have been looking for a host I am sure that you have some how or some way landed on the HostGator website. HostGator has been around since 2002 and they have made their web presence very strong, for example type in any hosting related keyword and I am sure that you will find them in a google ad or in the top of the search engines. HostGator offers a lot of variety to their customers so there is a lot to choose from. HostGator offers three basic plans for the average consumer and website owner; they also offer a wide range of reseller packages and dedicated servers for the larger customers.

HostGator offers a fairly basic plan for 4.95$ (When paid 1 years in advance) or 7.95$ if paid month to month, this plan offers 600GB of disk space and 6,000GB of bandwidth but incredibly that only let you host one domain so this package is virtually worthless. This plan of HostGator is one of the most famous plans in the web hosting industry. This plan offers unlimited domains to be hosted on your account and also offers some upgraded features from the very basic plan including unlimited pop3 email accounts, unlimited ftp accounts, unlimited sub domains, and unlimited parked domains, it also offer ninety nine point nine percent server uptime compared to the guaranteed ninety nine point five percent guaranteed uptime offered with the most basic plan.

HostGator also offers some dedicated servers for proxies and things of that nature, they are quite expensive though compared to the competition and this is a whole different market compared to the basic hosting. One nice feature of the HostGator service is that they offer Cpanel which is quite a good control panel; this is free compared to some other hosts which charge for the upgrade to a Cpanel hosting plan. Also like most other HostGator offers a online chat support and a toll free number that you can call in case you need assistance in setting up you?re hosting or trying to pick a plan out that fits your needs. Over all HostGator would probably be a eight out of ten because they offer a lot of features but only on their more expensive plans where as most other hosts will offer the same features on there low end plans, another big turn off is that they only allow you to host one domain on there cheapest plan, most hosts allow unlimited or at least fifteen or twenty.