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Best Reseller Hosting 2005
Hosting Review proudly announces HostGator as winner of its 2005 Best Reseller Hosting Award. HostGator offers a turnkey solution whereby resellers create their own pricing and packages, and customer feedback has shown that support and reseller assistance is top-notch.
Hosting Review Best Reseller Hosting
Price Value
Although HostGator specializes in reseller hosting, they also offer reasonably priced shared and dedicated server hosting plans. Their reseller plans are offered for prices ranging from $24.95 to $99.95 per month, and their Dedicated Server plans range from $174.00 to $374.00 per month. Accompanied with their recently upgraded Hatchling plan for shared hosting at 50GB space, 200 GB transfer rate @ $6.95/month, and you have one company that wants to remain competitive in the web-hosting market. Also included in these packages are features such free set-up, unlimited MySQL databases, SpamAssasin software that will help reduce the amount of junk email received, and a 99.9% uptime, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Reliability
HostGator has chosen The Planet, located in Dallas, Texas, to house their data center. The Planet boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space, and features state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems. This facility is accompanied with Multiple TXU electrical grids, 4800 volts of input power, DataTrax monitoring software for the whole data center infrastructure, and a fully meshed and redundant Certified Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers. When you consider all of these features, HostGator's customers have peace of mind regarding the security and reliability of their servers.
Control Panel
HostGator employs the industry standard control panel, CPanel. This control panel is one of the best in the industry, and has over 39 scripts that can be installed. It is also relatively easy to use, as it provides more than one million end users the ability to install dozens of leading open source accompanied with flash movies for instant tutorials. Your package will also include Fantastico, the leading auto-installer for CPanel servers. Fantastico is equipped with more than 10,000 installations, and content management systems that a user can integrate into their web space swiftly.
Customer Support
HostGator is becoming one of the leading companies that offer quick responses and a personal touch to their support system. They present 24/7/365 phone support, online chat, fax, peer support forums, and a wide variety of CPanel flash movies. Most customers agree that HostGator is very responsive and helpful, fixing problems easily.
Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plans
Hatchling: 50 GB disk space, 200 GB bandwidth
@ $6.95/month
Baby: 100 GB disk space, 1000 GB bandwidth
@ $9.95/month
Swamp: 200 GB disk space, 2000 GB bandwidth
@ $14.95/month
Semi-Dedicated: 25 GB disk space, 500 GB
bandwidth @ $74.95/month
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