Pricing
Performance
Support
Features
Beginner Friendliness
Overall Rating
Brief Overview of HostGator
With details ahead, let’s have a brief look of what you’ll get in the two cheapest basic packages of this hosting:
Parameter | Basic Tier | Next Tier |
|---|---|---|
Pricing from | $2.75 (Monthly) | $3.50 (Monthly) |
Renewal Price | $6.95 (Monthly) | $9.95 (Monthly) |
No. of Sites | 1 | Unlimited |
Monthly Traffic | Unmetered | Unmetered |
Disk Space | Unmetered | Unmetered |
Free Domain | Yes | Yes |
Free SSL | Yes | Yes |
Email Accounts | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Support | Knowledge Base, 24/7 Live, Call, Email | Knowledge Base, 24/7 Live, Call, Email |
Server Locations | US | US |
About HostGator
Operating since 2002, HostGator provides you versatile hosting options. In a fairly affordable pricing range, it offers shared hosting from $2.75 per month for a single site (with FREE DOMAIN for a year), and $3.50 per month for UNLIMITES WEBSITES. Pretty amazing plans! A setback is that the renewal pricing are pretty high, but worth it. With a beginner friendly and WordPress features friendly pros, we’ll tell you about more features in this HostGator Review.
Best thing about HostGator is that it offers you unlimited traffic, free domain, free SSL, $150 free Google Ads Credit, eCommerce Tools, a free HostGator Website Builder, and more beginner friendly features. Let’s dive deep into HostGator Hosting Review:
Pricing of HostGator
HostGator has pretty affordable price plans in Shared Hosting for beginners. It starts from $2.75/months when you commit for 3 years. It's sort of good as you get a decent time to establish yourself in an affordable price.
They offer a 45-days money back guarantee, so you can purchase that tension-free and try it.
Trouble: HostGator keeps around $15 for 'Free Domain' while returning your money. But it's fair enough as domain is registered for a whole year by registrar.
Below are pricing plans of famous HostGator Hosting Plans:
Following are the HostGator’s Shared Hosting Plans with Affordable Pricing:
WordPress plans are optimized for WordPress websites, although Shared plans are also good for WordPress. Below are the HostGator’s WordPress Pricing Plans:
If you need high performance websites, here are HostGator’s VPS pricing plans:
Performance and Security of HostGator
HostGator is a good contender when it comes to performance and security. Although it doesn't have uptime and response times as good as Hostinger, but it has pretty decent performance when we tested HostGator. But we recommend checking out Hostinger Hosting if you are in search of high performance at lower rate.
Uptime
It's the time your website remains live. HostGator has 99.98% uptime in last seven months that's pretty amazing and it guarantees 99% uptime, and provides you a compensation if there's a rare downtime. Here are recent uptime stats for HostGator.
Response Time
We tested response time of the web pages running on HostGator and here are the results that aren't satisfactory when we've compared them with our other choices:
Security
HostGator provides you free SSL with all of its plans that ensures a padlock on the start of your address bar. It offers malware protection, site backups, SiteLock Fix, CodeGuard, and more security options for your WordPress websites.
Customer Support of HostGator
When we've checked the support of HostGator, Live Chat is good option, and is responded timely as well. But disappointing factor is that, support isn't good enough. Most of the time, their support is not trained up to a satisfactory point and customers often complaint about it. However, they provide multiple support options like Call, Live Chat, Twitter, and Knowledge base. You can try the other if one doesn't work.
WordPress Features of HostGator
HostGator offers following WordPress features:
1-click WordPress installs
HostGator offers one click WordPress and other apps like Joomla installs. Every package comes with free one click WordPress install.
Free Migration
If you are migrating your website from some other hosting, HostGator offers you free migration service if you migrate your website in first 45 days of your purchase.
Simplified Control Panel
HostGator offers you simplified control panel to manage your resources, accounts easily.
Beginner Friendliness of HostGator
HostGator is beginner friendly and works great when you start with HostGator. It offers you an extensive knowledge base to read if you are facing any issue, you can also contact support via Live Chat if the issue isn't still resolved.
Pros and Cons of HostGator
Pros
- Affordable Pricing
- Unlimited/unmetered Bandwidth, traffic potential and storage
- Unlimited websites in second tier from only $3.50
- Free Domain
- Free SSLs
Cons
- Support isn't up to expectations sometimes
- Renewal prices are bit high
- Performance is lower than a cheaper alternative Hostinger
Final Verdict About HostGator
With some cons in support and performance when we compare HostGator with other alternatives, our verdict for HostGator is 8 out of 10. Although we recommend HostGator, but better alternative is Hostinger.
