<h1>HostGator Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, and Dedicated Website Hosting cPanel</h1>

General

HostGator is an independent hosting company created by Brent Oxley. Today they are one of the world's 10 largest hosting companies, but despite the growth, he still takes personal involvement in customer satisfaction and will often handle concerns personally.

* Customers: 90,000 +
* Hosted domains: 700,000 +
* Created: 2002
* CEO: Brent Oxley

User experience
Our Host Gator test site showed good response and uptimes.

Follow up:

* Control panel: cPanel 10 -- We would have appreciated cPanel 11.
* Fantastico Deluxe - Up to date

PhpMyAdmin is not available through cPanel so if you want to administer your MySQL databases online you will have to install it yourself.

We were able to perform up to 6 simultaneous FTP upload which makes sites updates fast and easy.
Technical specs
* PHP version: 5.2.5 -- Up to date.
* MySQL version: 5.0.45 -- Up to date.
* GD library: 2.0.34 -- Up to date.

(Section updated on May 1st, 08)
Customer satisfaction
Overall, customers feedback shows they are generally satisfied with HostGator.

The one distinctive feature that makes them choose HostGator is being able to pay monthly.
Security

HostGator is running mod_suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.
Hosting Plans
Warning: HostGator's pricing does not necessarily vary linearly with the length of the plan. Refer to the table below for details.
Hatchling Baby Swamp
Monthly fee (× 1 mo) $8.95 $9.95 $14.95
Monthly fee (× 6 mo) - $9.95 $14.95
Monthly fee (× 12 mo) $6.95 $9.95 $14.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo) $5.95 $8.95 $13.95
Monthly fee (× 36 mo) $4.95 $7.95 $12.95
Disk space 350 GB 600 GB 1,000 GB
Transfer (monthly) 3 TB 6 TB Unlimited
Included domain name 0 0 0
Domains per account 1 Unlimited Unlimited
MySQL databases Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited