Hostgator for even less money - By: Allan Michael Taylor

Hostgator is known as one of the best web hosting providers. Even though they also provide other services like domain registration, SSL certificates and script installation, web hosting is their primary service.

At this time Hostgator provides home to over 2,500,000 domains for which more than 300 employees are taking care. They offer 45 day money back guarantee. You also get 99.9% uptime guarantee. Hostgator is also considered a green hosting, meaning their servers are highly efficient and they also use wind energy. Hostgator support is known as one of the best in industry! You can request live chat support any time of day or night and likewise phone support. Ticket support is also available.

Hostgator offers a huge selection of shared, reseller and dedicated web hosting plans, so everyone can choose suitable one for themselves. All their plans include: unlimited disk space, bandwith, MySQL databases, sub domains, FTP accounts, email accounts and a really easy to use control panel. Besides all that you get free sitebuilding software, some templates, preprepared scripts and $50 Google Adwords Credit. All major programming languages are supported. Among those are: PHP, CGI, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails and they're beta testing ASP support right now.

Hostgator email accounts are also surprisingly good. You get unlimited email accounts that can be accessed either via POP3 or IMAP (which also means, you can receive your email directly to your phone) protocol. 3 webmail applications are provided for those who need it: Horde, SquirrelMail and my personal favorite RoundCube. They also provide spam prevention system called SpamAssassin which is very effective and can be easily customized.

They have received many awards in their 7+ years of providing web hosting services. Some of those are: About.com 2010 Reader's Choice Award, Reviewhut.com's Best WebHost of 2008 Award, HostReview.com TOP 10 Budget Hosting Award for years 2008 and 2009. They were also named 21st Fastest Growing Private Company in America in year 2008 and 239th Fastest Growing Private Company in America by Inc.

Prices vary from 4.95$/mo for cheapest shared plan up to 374$ per month for dedicated server. Every now and then they promote their services by providing discount coupons. With those coupons a lot of money can be saved. For example – this way shared hosting can be had for free for first month. You can also save 20% on final price or get 25$ off. Discounts vary from 1.79$ for 1 month Hatchling plan up to 503.88$ for 1 year VPS.

About the Author

Jake O' Sullivan is an expert in web hosting and has been writing computer related articles for nearly 5 years now. If you're interested in making Hostgator web hosting even cheaper, be sure to use one of Hostgator coupons that can be found on his website: http://couponhostgator.info.

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