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HostGator has been around a while now and is quite popular with the internet marketing community. HostGator is certainly not perfect, but I like them most of the time. They were one of the first companies to allow people to host unlimited websites and once I hit 5 websites in around 2005 or so that became quite handy. BlueHost is the only other hosting company that I’ve used and I’ve noticed that HostGator is generally more lenient about using php scripts than  Bluehost is.

You can host your site almost anywhere and usually the service is pretty much the same when things are going well.  There area where you will really tell a good host from a bad host is when things go wrong.  HostGator really shines in their area of security. I have been hacked before and HostGator was able to get me back online fairly quickly. I know of others who used different hosting companies who lost their entire website after a hacking incident. Not so with HostGator.

When I was on BlueHost, I had a situation where someone was using my ip address for spamming. Instead of asking me about it, they terminated me with no rhyme or reason. I’ve heard other hosts will pull similar shananigans. I’ve never had this problem with HostGator.

Just a word of warning though. While I am impressed with HostGator itself, I’m not impressed with their multiple ip service, SEOHosting.com. I don’t know if it’s the server or what but my sites hosted on there constantly load slow.

So in summary, HostGator regular accounts, great and fast. SeoHosting accounts, too slow.

Overall Rating
• 5.0 from 5

Tags: affiliate marketing, hostgator, hosting, marketing, web host, website hosting
Filed under: Marketing Tools and Services | Jul 28th, 2010.