We Build Up

A lot of people always ask about HostGator and what they can and cannot host with them, if they are a realible web hosting company so on and so forth.

Well, heres my review!

I currently have 8 websites hosted with them and I have never once had downtime in the entire 6 months i have been with them, which was a surprise to me since most hosts have a little down time every now and then.

I had a bad experience with santrex hosting which made me move all of my sites over to hostgator. When i first signed up to HostGator i had 4 of my sites hosted and was testing the waters with a small hosting company called santrex.

Santrex was the biggest waste of money ever, my sites all loaded slow, their support ticket system was almost non-existant and when they did reply, they would tell me to google the problem, even though the problem was with their server, not a problem with the scripts i installed.

Never, ever go with a small hosting company. The support was shocking, everyone says all smaller hosts have time for you, well guess what? They do not in my experience.

HostGator on the other hand has around the clock live support. You know unlike some places, they don’t just treat it as their job, they activly try to help you with your problem in a proactive manner.

I’m quite happy with HostGator and i will be hosting my sites with them for a very longtime.

I’m sure we have all had our ups and downs with some web hosting companies but i’m not sure that anything can compare to my experience with Santrex.

I purchased 20gb VPS hosting with them back in the beginning of April. The first month seemed alright dispite having a random 24 hour power outage on my VPS just a few days after signing up.

I noticed that after about 15 days, my site began loading slower and slower and my vps was at 9gb without me uploading any big files! All i was hosting was a mediawiki site and a few images for the articles.

I complained to them about it and they told me they would look into it, which they never did. I thought maybe they were busy, so i didn’t think too much of it. Anyway, I bought another months hosting and the site loading seemed to be a tad bit better than the month prior but they still had not got back to me about the loss of hard drive space.

The third month and final month

I’m sure most of you are aware about the HyperVM Owner who hung himself due to a ton of HyperVM exploits going public.

Well due to this, Santrex shutdown all access to everyones VPS! So thats just great. I cannot install an alternative control panel because they have stopped the HyperVM process. Whats even more is all of a sudden my VPS was maxed out at 20gb!

I could not belive this, so naturally contacted them about it and they told me that i had to PURCHASE an alternative or PAY them to install a free control panel.

I was furious, I had just paid for my hosting 6 days prior and cannot do anything with it! So, Here i was sitting with my site hosted, ZERO way of adding any new content due to them maxing out my VPS space in a ploy to get me to pay them for a new control panel.

My site sat there the entire month without updates and $19 that i basically just threw away.

I would not recommend them to anyone, Zero customer service what-so-ever!

This is often a question that pops up on every web hosting forum.

Everyone is looking for the best deal. I mean come on right? Who in their right mind would just splash cash around when they can nine times out of ten find a better deal.

Sites that offer you unlimited resources, are they good?

It all depends on what kind of site you are wanting to host and what kind of hosting package you have purchased.

Lets say for instance, you bought hosting somewhere and chose a ‘Hatchling’ or ‘Baby’ package and you wanted to host:

a downloads site, file sharing site, movie streaming site.

If all those mp3’s and files are hosted on your own hosting account . You should expect an email from them or account termination due to using too much resources.

If you are wanting to host a resource intensive website, I think its best you stay clear of a small hosting packages and move onto a vps or a dedicated server since most hosts will not keep you around for long without terminating your account.

Why would they do that?

It’s a marketing strategy when they tell you it’s unlimited resources. Since most people who buy those ‘unlimited’ hosting packages do not have intentions of hosting huge resource intensive websites. So in a sense, it is ‘unlimited’ if you catch my drift.

What about sites like hostgator?

Hostgator are very reasonable.

You can host forums, wordpress blogs, landing pages and anything along those lines without and issues on their cost effective hosting packages such as the Hatchling and Baby package.

Where is this blog hosted at?

I’m one of the biggest critics when it comes to hosts who claim to offer you unlimited bandwidth and hard drive space.

I’ve tried many hosting sites, purely to see if they are what everyone cranks them up to be and the sad honest truth, most left me disappointed. The thing that upset me the most was my so-called-friends were the ones who told me about them in the first place!

I’ve been with hostgator for over 6 months now without any problems, no site loading lag, i have multiple sites hosted with them including this new blog.

Hostgator without a doubt is the best hosting company for novice and even for the experienced webmaster.

My number one choice by far!