Host Gator: Pros and Cons

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I've compiled a short list of pros and cons of using the Host Gator service for anyone who is considering Host Gator as their hosting service.

Pros

+ Excellent Support
+ 24/7/365 support
+ Flexible payment
+ Inexpensive Shared Hosting Packages
+ cPanel Based Hosting
+ Very generous hosting packages
+ Very wide variety of features
+ Free first-time account transfer (from other host)
+ Upgrade or Downgrade account at anytime.
+ Blazing fast server response time
+ 99.9% Uptime
+ FTP Support
+ SSL Support (128-bit)
+ Very flexible content rules (Legal adult content is allowed)
+ Very wide variety of script support
+ Generous POP3 support
+ Fantastico
+ Whois block support

Cons

- Somewhat expensive domain registration

.COM$15.00/yr .ORG$15.00/yr .NET$15.00/yr .BIZ$19.95/yr .INFO$19.95/yr .CC$49.95/yr .TV$59.95/yr .WS$49.95/yr .NU$49.95/yr .BZ$49.95/yr .US$19.95/yr

Review/Notes

I've been into hosting and designing websites for 4 years, and by far, Host Gator is the best web host I've encountered yet. I've seen at least a few hundred web hosts, and none of them amount to the prestige of Host Gator. The only con I could come up with was the domain registration fee. But who ever said you needed to register a domain with Host Gator?

Besides the slightly high domain fees, Host Gator is perfect! The amount of features and options offered by Host Gator on top of the extremely generous hardware limits make it hard to beat.

Overall, if I could put a rating on Host Gator, from a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best), I'd give it a 9.8 (lower domain reg fee would make it a 10).

I can promise you, from 4 years of reviewing web hosts, Host Gator is the BEST.