Guess what happens when you mix an alligator, with a web host? It becomes Host Gator. The first thing that catches your eye in Host Gator site is a royal blue alligator (cartoon) eating up the ‘H’ of ‘Host Gator’. And when you start wondering what the significance of the name and the cartoon is; the slogan below hits your eye—‘we eat up the competition’. Cool!

Self explained. Host Gator does have the ability to eat up the competition, especially in the reseller segment. They are the world's leading provider of reseller accounts with over 10,000 resellers who have chosen Host Gator to provide the network, servers, and support required to launch a hosting business.

Host Gator, hosting a mammoth figure of 200,000 domains, offers a variety of web hosting solutions. Members of Host Gator can run upto 10 domains having 1 web hosting account.Host Gator is the proud winner of awards like FindMyHost Editor’s Choice Award, Honest Host Award, Hosting Review Top Pick 2005, and a lot of more. Host Gator offers their members a wide range of options to choose from, with prices ranging from $6.95/mo to $374/mo.

Top Pick
HostGator offers some of the best range of solutions for resellers to create their own pricing and packages. Their customer feedback has shown that support and reseller assistance is excellent.

Price Value
HostGator hosting plans start with Hatchling Plan for shared hosting at 3.5 GB space, 50 GB transfer rate @ $6.95/mo, for beginners, or for those, whose site requirements are limited. Host Gator however specializes in reseller hosting, but they also offer reasonably priced shared and dedicated server hosting plans. Host Gator Reseller Plans are offered for prices ranging from $24.95/mo to $99.9/mo, and their Dedicated Server Plans range from $174.00/mo to $374.00/mo. Also included in these packages are features like free set-up, unlimited MySQL databases, SpamAssasin software that will help reduce the amount of junk email received, and a 99.9% uptime, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Reliability
HostGator house their data center from The Planet, located in Dallas, Texas. The Planet boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space, and features state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems. This facility is accompanied with Multiple TXU electrical grids, 4800 volts of input power, DataTrax monitoring software for the whole data center infrastructure, and a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers. Power back-up is provided by two powerful, heavy duty generators, to give their customers peace of mind regarding the security and reliability of their servers.

Control Panel
HostGator employs the industry standard control panel, CPanel, which is one of the best in the industry, having over 39 installable scripts. It is easy to use, as it provides more than one million end users the ability to install dozens of leading open source accompanied with flash movies for instant tutorials. Your package will also include Fantastico, the leading auto-installer for CPanel servers. Fantastico is equipped with more than 10,000 installations, and content management systems that a user can integrate into their web space swiftly.

Customer support
Host Gator offers 24 X 7 customer support in a number of convenient ways. Their call center number is 1-866-96-GATOR. Besides calling, you can preferably have a live chat with their technical support executive, and sales support team. Else, you can send your queries, and problems to them via email using their ticket system, which they reply shortly, by email. Before that you can always check out the FAQ databank for questions and solutions, and 99% chances are, you will find your solution there, and will have to look no further. If you enjoy flash tutorials, they have that option for you, as well. Besides all these ways to help you, their unique online community brings you face to face with other members, who might have your solution. Customer feedback about their support is very positive.

Linux/Unix Hosting Plans
Hatchling: 3.5 GB disk space, 50 GB bandwidth @ $6.95/month

Baby: 5 GB disk space, 75 GB bandwidth @ $9.95/month
Swamp: 10 GB disk space, 100 GB bandwidth @ $14.95/month

Semi-Dedicated: 25 GB disk space, 500 GB bandwidth @ $74.95/month

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