Saturday, August 15, 2009

Hostgator Is Green, What Is All That About.

By Simon Bentley

Hostgator only began in 2002. I say only because in this relatively short space of time they have manged to become one of the biggest hosting companies in the world with over 2 million domains currently being hosted. They are not stopping on their laurels however and continue to plan ambitious growth.

It's certainly impressive stuff, but lets get down to the nuts and bolts and what really matters for perspective customers. They have several accounts on offer all can be described as budget from 5 -13 dollars a month.

The plans are fully flexible and all of them offer unlimited domains, bandwidth and disk space.The accounts also all come with CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl,MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP as well as Cpanel access.

Now, all this stuff is great, but for me there are 2 things that make Hostgator really stand out.

The first is the high level of service, even though the accounts are shared the server speeds are very good and I can get through to the support team quickly, either by the chat function, phone or email.

Also with these guys you are never going to get stuck with a long term contract which is very reassuring. You can stop it at any time and get your money back up to 45 days after you join, if for some reason you need to stop or take your business somewhere else.

Next, is the fact that Hostgator are environmentally aware and concerned. I share the same principles and have been using renewable energy sources for my power for several years now. They do the same and combine this with the most energy efficient servers on the market as well.

It's great for me to be able to use a good solid web hosting company that is also committed to the environment and to helping protect our planet. For these reasons, I feel happy to recommend Hostgator. - 16890

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