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HostGator was founded in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida. Host Gator is composed to take the lead
in the highly competitive and closely compacted world of web hosting providers.
HostGator is about three years old, but their reputation for service and support is growing
by leaps and bounds. It’s claimed to provide reliable service, superior support and affordable
pricing to businesses and individuals seeking quality shared hosting, reseller, or dedicated web hosting
solutions.

Features:
HostGator chooses CPanel as user control panel.
CPanel is very user friendly, extremely feature rich and it includes an easy-to-use web based interface.
Other features included in the control panel are Hotlink Protection, Ip deny manager, Custom Error pages,Instant
Blogs, Instant Portals, Instant php nuke, Instant Chatroom, Instant Forums, Instant Guestbook, InstantCounter,
Instant Formmail, Redirect URL, web based ftp, PW Protected Directrories and phpMyAdmin.

Support:
* 3 way contact support, via telephone, email and by live chat.
* Ticket System, to view your ticket history
* Automated Billing System
* Knowledgebase – Find answers to your pre-sales, billing, and support needs.
* Flash Tutorials
* Online Hosting Community, to communicate with other users to solve your problem.

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 and is second-to-none in the industry.
* (21) 26-ton Data Air AC units
* Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
* Over 500 smoke detectors in an integrated system
* Simplex security badge entry/exit on all doors to facility
* Multiple TXU electrical grids
* 4800 volts of input power
* 3 main transfer switches
* 1-megawatt generator (2000-gallon tank)
* 1.5-megawatt generator (2200-gallon tank)

DataTrax monitoring software for all data center infrastructure.

Reliability/speed:
Choosing Host Gator means that your sites will be accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified
Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers.
These providers include: UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT&T, Time Warner, Allegiance
Telecom, Broadwing, AboveNet.

HostGator with in 3 years of time it has won several awards (5-star host by webhostmagazine.com) gaining
a high reputation in the market. They haven’t experienced any traffic down turn in past 2 years.
Their Alexa ranking is also high which proves that the traffic level is increasing instantly.

Conclusion:
HostGator are extremely affordable, have extremely reliable servers and friendly support.
Recommended highly as a dedicated server host for the cPanel lovers.

Total Score: 4.5 Stars

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