Founded in 2002, Hostgator.com, LLC has quickly grown from its humble beginnings in Boca Raton, Florida into one of the most respected names in the web hosting industry. Renowned for exceptional customer support and unrivaled in terms of customer satisfaction, Host Gator is poised to take the lead in the highly competitive and densely populated world of web hosting providers.

Host Gator offers 3 different plans for shared hosting. We select their Baby plan as our reviewed plan because it is the most value-for-money plan.

Host Gator offers unlimited domains, subdomains and MySQL database. However, this doesn't come without a price. At a price of $9.95 per month with 5000MB disk space and 75GB bandwidth, Host Gator is a bit steep, but taken into account the unlimited number of domains that can be hosted under 1 account, this plan is definitely a good catch.

With unlimited MySQL database, you would be able to choose among the 36 popular scripts that can be found in Fantastico Deluxe, which is installed in Host Gator's control panel, cPanel. To try out this great feature, please visit the demo page at

http://67.18.39.34/cpanel
Login: demo
Password: demo

Host Gator support channels are operated by qualified technical support staff. The channels include 24/7 email, toll-free phone and live chat as well as a ticket system, flash tutorials, community forums and knowledgebase.

It claims that 99% of all your queries can be found in their knowledgebase , however, we can't even find basic information on domains, MySql and Php.

It's forum is rather new with only about 4,000 members. It covers some topics but do not include a support forum, unlike Powweb which has a very comprehensive community forum.

WebHostMagazine.com, the toughest reviewers in the industry has given Host Gator the Highest Level of Recommendation.

Apart from that , Hosting-review has also named Host Gator the best reseller web hosting company in 2005.

Your site will be hosted on the Dual Xeon server that provides instant backups . The server uses high speed OC48 to connect to the internet.

Host Gator's servers are hosted in Dallas, Texas at The Planet's data center . The Planet's Data Center boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space featuring state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems to provide its customers with superior network connectivity with minimal required downtime.

If you are concerned of the quality that Host Gator can provide, you could sign up for one month and evaluate their service level before going for longer terms since there's no setup fee incurred, unlike most web hosts. And, like most web hosts, your domain registration fee of $15.00 would be forfeited.