Hostgator Review
A review of the hosting company HostGator.
About Host GatorBased in Boca Raton Florida, Host Gator was founded in 2002 and grew to be a leader in the reseller hosting market. They offer 3 shared hosting plans, 1 semi-dedicated hosting plan, and 4 dedicated hosting plans. Also HostGator has a decent reputation I defintely think there are better deals to be had elsewhere. Their plans dont offer the same amount of value as some of the other bigger companies.Price & CapacityHostGator offers 3 decent shared hosting plans. Their first plan is their "Hatchling Plan" where $6.95 gets you 50 GB diskspace, 200 GB transfer, only 20 POP3 mail accounts, 20 FTP accounts, 20 subdomains, only 1 domain allowed, and only a 99.5% uptime guarantee. Their second plan, the "Baby Plan", is $9.95 per month and gets you 100 GB diskspace, 1,000 GB transfer, unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited subdomains, unlimited domains, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Their third plan, their "Swamp Plan", is $14.95 and gets you 200 GB disspace, 2,000 GB transfer, unlimited POP2 mail accounts, unlimited FTP accounts, anonymous FTP, unlimited subdomains, unlimited domains, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.FeaturesInstant osCommerce, Instant ZenCart, Cube Cart, AWStats with real time updates, Webalizer, CGI, Perl, Python, SSI, Cron, Frontpage, GD, ImageMagic, Fantastico script library, and your typical free stuff like guestbooks, forums, counters, blogs, portal, nuke, Fantastico, the latest control panel (cpanel 10). They also have unlimited MySQL databases, 99.9% uptime, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.Reliability and SupportHostGator's support is probably their strongest point. They have a good reputation for speedy responses. Their strength is their 24/7/365 phone support, as well as chat, fax, and forums. The only thing I don't like about their service is that they outsource their data center to a company named "The Planet". This means that is you call up with a technical problem then HostGator acts as the midle man in solving the problem and it may take longer to get a fix.RandomHostgator recently has done some major upgrades for storage and bandwidth for all their acounts, especially the cheapest one.E-mail LimitationsThere is a 200 hourly email limit per domain this limit is also applied towards mailman. If you send over this amount in any hour most of the e-mails will bounce back with a undeliverable error. Many of our servers have a 60 pop checks per hour limit per domain. If you go over this you're likely to get a wrong password error message saying login incorrect. Just wait an hour and it will automatically unlock you. to prevent this from happening again make sure to disable auto checking or at least set it to something higher such as 10 minutes.Any mailing list larger than 5,000 will require a semi dedicated or dedicated hosting solution from us. Note: dividing one large list into smaller lists to get below this limit is not allowed. Mailing Lists Rules 1. Anytime you're sending a message no matter how large your e-mail list is you must throttle it. We recommend you throttle it to at the very least sending 1 email every 6 seconds. If the mailing list software you're using does not allow you to throttle you must switch to something else. We recommend phplist which can be found in your control panel under fantastico. If you do not throttle and you try sending let's say 500 emails the server will try sending all 500 in 1 second which is not possible. This will cause the server load to go very high and for the entire server to be sluggish until this process is completed. It is our job to keep the server up and running without being sluggish. Anyone who causes the servers load to go high will be suspended and the process will be terminated. If you choose not to throttle you will most likely be suspended for crashing the server. 2. Any mailing list over 900 emails is only allowed to be sent to during off-peak times to prevent high server loads. Off peak times qualify as all day Saturday and Sunday, and 1am - 8 am eastern time M-F. |
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