HOSTGATOR

Following are the major advantages of using HostGator Web Hosting:

UPTIME OF 99.98%

HostGator Web Hosting features a strong and stable uptime of 99.98%. Along, with this strong and stable uptime they guarantee a credit of one month in your account if the uptime drops below 99.90%.

GOOD CUSTOMER SUPPORT

HostGator Web Hosting provides a 24/7 customer support service via a knowledge base phone, email and live chat support. Whereas, the live chat support system is the fastest which links us to a service representative within a stretch of 15 seconds. It consists of a very well trained, user-friendly and knowledgeable staff.

45-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

Their 45-day money back guarantee exceeds seemingly from the markets average of 30 days money back guarantee and applies to all shared, reseller and VPS hosting packages. However, this offer does not imply to HostGator’s dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software. Yet, the offer provided by the host is quite competitive in nature.

SITE SECURITY FEATURES

They offer an additional feature of SiteLock to monitor your site. This service functions on a daily basis and protect against any site breech or hacks and informs you immediately if they find any potential threat.

They also deliver Spam Assassin on their email plan which provides an additional layer of security.

FREE SITE AND cPanel MIGRATION

HostGator Web Hosting offers a 30 days period after sign-up to enable them to help you move any data files, database scripts as well as a domain name over for you. A full cPanel transfer is also inclusive in the offer provided by the host.

USER FRIENDLY FOR BEGINNERS

HostGator Web Hosting offers a spot-on feature for new bloggers or webmaster. There site consists of ample number of tutorials, walkthroughs and many more features to facilitate your navigation to the domain of DNS and data centres. The website builder, HostGator features by the host comes in accompany with the free hosting and domain names. It enables one to just purchase a single account for all the significant matters.

Moreover, its customizable templates are fairly contemporary and their appearance can be conveniently customised a simple dragging and dropping feature. Its eCommerce plan can also help one to set up a fully-functioning online store.

Following are the disadvantages of using HostGator Web Hosting:

SLOW PAGE SPEED

Page loading time has a significant impact on your visitor’s experience and can either make or break your page. The host provides an average of 1191ms page loading time which, in ordinary terms be written as a loading time of over a second for a relatively plain text-based content page.

ADDITIONAL FEES FOR ‘TRUE’ BACKUP, GMAIL AND MALWARE

During the time of checkout or at the very end process you get to know that feature such as backups, Gmail access, SiteLock monitoring and SEO tools actually put an extra load on your pocket. It becomes highly disappointing to acknowledge that these features which had been carefully mentioned in a flowery language that they are “available” which is not the actual case.