HostGator Web Host Review – 1 Year Later

It has been over a year since I started working with HostGator for my web hosting needs for my blog and website. It was hard to digest that blogging could be fun and earn huge revenue at the same time.But in the end, I did start blogging and while working as a freelancer and content writer for several other websites, I discovered several ways to earn big from blogging and started earning a substantial income from blogging and tell you what… the biggest secret that I discovered while blogging was… it is actually fun.

It is something that you do not realize until you start doing yourself.

Alright… I think I was getting carried away by telling you how far I come from my very first day when I started to purchase a domain and a web hosting provider. However, I am reviewing my web hosting provider for this article. So, let’s get started.

· Yaro Starak (Famous Online Entrepreneur) recommended HostGator as a nice hosting service, and tell you what, when you know nothing about these things, a little advice from professionals help a lot.

· I designed my blog for a very wide niche market, Technology, and the longer I spent time on internet searching for stuff related to technology, the more stuff I got to write.

· So, the important thing was to handle the traffic and HostGator gave what they promised. I never had a downtime with HostGator and can safely say that they do offer 99.9% uptime (it was 100% in my case).

· I opted for Baby plan because I knew that sooner or later I will start a new website or blog. Also, $9.97 was completely justified for what HostGator was offering along with unlimited domains.

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· My hosting plan was based on Linux and I chose it because even I was insecure of Windows based system and you have to agree with me because Windows is still the most hack-able operating system environment in comparison to Linux.

· As you can guess, I started my blog based on WordPress’s free blogging software and even though you can download the zip file from WordPress.org, I highly recommend you use WordPress installation software from your HostGator’s cPanel.

· It takes only two minutes (literally!) to install and you can quickly access your blog from ‘www.yourdomainname.extension/wp-admin’ and start posting wonderful posts.

· HostGator’s technical support is top-notch and this is the most essential part of every organization. Most of the problems (though you will never have them) will be fixed by Online Chat support, which is quick and folks are good there too.

· As a blogger, I upload several stuffs to make my posts look great and this includes various pictures, videos, PDF files, etc., also various data take a lot of disk space, however, thanks to HostGator’s unlimited disk space, I never had to worry about that in this past 1 year and still don’t care about that.

· HostGator gives what it can to make a newbie feel at home and not a stranger. You will have instantly applicable website templates, website builder, premium shopping cart, free search traffic builder, secure billing system, video tutorials to help your way around, mail setup and tools, ruby on the rails, PHP pear packages, fantastico deluxe and much more.

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So… all I can say is that you should try out HostGator at least once, if you are going to start a blog or develop a website, before you head over to another web host. After all, HostGator provides you 45-day money back guarantee.

So, follow the link to try out the demo of cPanel or buy a web hosting plan right away.

PS – Use tasteoftechnology (without spaces) as coupon code to get your hosting fees down to one penny for first month.