Hey people, Rite now im confused. See i am planning to take up paid hosting and my budget is 10$/month I surfed the net and came across hostgator web hosting plan. There current plan i.e Baby Plan includes following : 5gb diskspace. 75gb bandwidth. Unlimited domain hosting. Cpanel + all the standard features + unlimited databases and unlimited pop3 accounts. Im getting this for 9.95$/month which is well in my budget. + its monthly payment. So my question is : is this kinda offer Cheap or Costly!? Also howz the reputation of Hostgator as such. Ne help would be much appreciated! [/COLOR]
Not sure about hostgator, never used them although I have been tempted to before. The price is good, but sorry I can't reply if the hosting is good or not Currently one host that I've had nothing but good luck with, 'good tech support, etc' is http://www.pro-net-hosting.com which offers a reseller account in your monthly budget.
Well I don't know about hostgator, I am using lunarpages and I am happy with them. The price is good and I think this is the average most hostings charge for
asmallorange definitely has a good reputation around digital point. I can't say that I've ever used hostgator, but I seem to remember them having a not-so-good reputation for customer support. Check webhostingtalk.com - they've been a good place for info and research for me in the past.
They are over-selling for sure if they actually reserved the entire 5 gigs per client... On a standard 80g hard-drive, the actual space is always less, then you subtract OS and software, that might leave 70g of space, they could probably fit 14 of these packages at 10/month... $140 revenue per server. For sure it costs them alot more than that, to keep the server running.
I am the 10th vote for www.asmallorange.com ...I have a lot of sites with them and they are by far the best I have ever had.
I use HostGator for most of my sites and I'm very happy with them. They're support team is awesome, even if you email them you'll get a response in less than an hour usually. But they also have 24 hour live chat and call center setup. Best customer service I've seen in a web host so far.