They give great value for money, have excellent support and are very helpful, pleasant and professional.  At the most recent count they are hosting over 1,300,000 domains, which is QUITE an achievement…

Apart from the quality of the hosting they offer, one of the useful facilities they have is LIVE CHAT 24/7 …I love it so if you need to know something quickly, you can.  Or you can phone in, which I believe is also 24/7.  If you’re emailing in a support question, their support staff are excellent and usually answer within several hours.

Hostgator uses the updated Cpanel and they have a good selection of video tutorials on how to set up your hosting account.  Cpanel includes Fantastico – which means you have a long list of webscripts available to you, most of them for free, like:

LiveChat, a PhpBB Forum, Support Ticket System, Content Management systems (like Joomla for example), 2 click automatic installation of WordPress blogs, Shopping Carts, Faq scripts, Image Galleries, unlimited email addresses, Polls & Surveys, Site Builders with templates …you can even build your own Wiki.

They also have a forum, both for pre-sales and for members.  I’ve never used the forum because I’ve never needed to and I prefer using LiveChat or Support emailing.

I’ve been trying to think of any negatives that Hostgator have but I just can’t think of any – and that’s the truth …they’re even patient when you’re really new to the web and need to ask idiotic questions.  Well, they haven’t managed to be host to 1.3 million domains for nothing, have they?!

If you’re just starting out you can opt for the ’Hatchling’ package at $4.95/month which allows you to host only one domain and has genuinely unlimited disk space and bandwidth.

If you plan on developing your web business you’ll probably want to go for the ‘Baby’ package which allows you unlimited domains – with of course the genuinely unlimited disk space and bandwidth.  This costs $7.95/month.

If you click on the banner image below, you’ll also see there is a coupon code there which you can use to get a 20% discount.

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