Last but not least, we took a careful look at the Hostgator website, taking into account all that they have to offer from their different hosting plans to the value that they provide for their customers.

Visit Hostgator

Evaluation Summary

As you could have guessed if you saw our home page and noticed that Hostgator was our top recommended host, we have a very positive overall opinion of the services that they offer. Their other customers have a very positive view of Hostgator as well. We spent several hours on the internet reading customer opinions of Hostgator, and people seemed very happy with them. Helpful and reliable phone support was mentioned several times. This is something that you'll think is very important when you need to talk you your web host and you need to talk to them right now.

What stands out about Hostgator's web hosting plans is that they allow unlimited domains in all of their hosting plans starting with the plans that costs $9.95/month and up. There is also a plan that costs only $6.95/month, but with that plan you can only host one domain. Of course, you won't be needing unlimited websites, but you may end up wanting 5, 10, 20, 30, or even more websites than that. Provided that all of those sites aren't too big and don't have too many scripts running all of the time, you can fit them all in one hosting account for only $9.95/month. You may not think that you'll be needing any more websites than the one you have or want to start right now, but the internet is only getting more popular and there is a good chance that you'll want to start more sites in the future. For only $9.95/month, you can have a reliable web host and you can have as many websites as you want.

Another great feature of Hostgator is their month-to-month hosting contracts. Nearly every other web host will make you pre-pay for a year or two years at a time. Signing on for a long-term contract with your web host puts you at a disadvantage. With so many different web hosts out there, why should you have to make such a long commitment to one particular host? I don't think you should and evidently Hostgator doesn't either. Starting with the $9.95/month plan and up with Hostgator, you can avoid paying 1 or 2 years in advance for your web hosting.

Unfortunately, the $6.95/month plan doesn't include unlimited domains or month-to-month payments. We can say with confidence that the $9.95/month plan offers the best value of any plan. If you feel that $9.95/month is too expensive because you don't need unlimited domains, Bluehost is also on our short list of the top 6 web hosting companies and they offer hosting for up to 6 domains in one account for $6.95/month when you sign up for 2 years.

Visit Hostgator

Even if you know that you only want 1 website in your hosting account, the $9.95/month plan from Hostgator may be the best value for you. How could that be if many other competing plans with single domain hosting are as cheap as $5.00/month or even less? For one, you'll never know if you may want another website in the future, and even if you didn't end up wanting to add another site, Hostgator's month-to-month no contract payment plan allows you to quit whenever you want without paying in advance for 1 or 2 years, which can cost you as much as $200.

Hostgator combines unsurpassed value with great customer service, an excellent reputation, a lot of happy customers(including us), and a variety of different hosting plans to suit almost any possible customer.

Once you're signed up with a web host you will expect reliable servers and dependable, prompt customer service.  Those are the qualities that will make your experience with them a good one, and they are also the qualities that Hostgator customers mention quite often when describing the service that they have received.

What different hosting plans are there and what do they offer?

Hostgator offers 4 different shared web hosting plans. We took some screenshots from their website to show you what is offered in the different plans.

Visit Hostgator

Hatchling, at $6.95/month is not a bad web hosting plan, but it's not a great one either. The negatives of this plan are the fact that you have to pay yearly instead of month to month and that you can only host one domain name. If you don't want to spend $9.95/month for the Baby hosting plan from Hostgator that allows for month to month payments and unlimited domains, we would suggest Bluehost. With Bluehost, you can spend only $6.95/month when you sign up for 2 years and you can host up to 6 domains in one account.

Baby, at $9.95/month is the best value of any web hosting plan on the internet that I've seen. Paying month to month as opposed to one or two year contracts is the way to go. Consider that when you pay for 1 or 2 years at a time, you're looking at $100 or $200 up front, and then you're essentially married to that web host for that period of time. Unlimited domains is also an amazing feature. Most websites take up relatively little space and web hosts who don't allow multiple domains on a single account are making a lot of money off of websites that pay full price but only host one small site. With Hostgator, you can really get your money's worth by adding as many sites as you want as long as they will fit in your account, and like we said earlier most sites are small which means you can fit A LOT of websites into one Hostgator account. For example, maybe the site that you need now is for your business. Your business site will most likely be the largest site in your Hostgator account. Along with your business account, you will have enough space left over to host your blog on it's own domain, build a personal site for someone else, build a personal site for you, build a site for an event such as a wedding, or any number of things.

Swamp, at $14.95/month is also a great value. It's 50% more expensive than Baby, but if you think that you will need the extra space, it's still great deal. We recommend starting with Baby to save money and if you end up needing more space, you can just upgrade to Swamp.

The Semi Dedicated hosting plan is for webmasters that will be running a lot of scripts and getting a lot of traffic on their large websites. If you know that you'll be needing a lot of extra server resources, then this is an excellent option.

Check out our home page to see our top 6 web hosting companies.

Visit Hostgator

Go back to the top of the page