You can get an account
with HostGator or GoDaddy and have a WordPress website up and running in a half hour or less, even if you don't know what you are doing.
I also host my website
with HostGator, and in fact the process of buying your domain and hosting can be done all together on one page.
I was fighting some issues
with HostGator and some malware.
Working
with HostGator's support was kind of amazing.
As you can see from some comments above, some readers are unhappy
with HostGator's shared hosting while my experience with the (more expensive) shared hosting has been great.
I don't know why or how it became so much more successful but put it this way, I've spent many hours on the phone
with HostGator trying to upgrade the hosting.
Not exact matches
Like
HostGator, it's a company you can grow
with, but you'll most likely want to have significant web traffic already established to justify the cost.
What we really like most about
HostGator is that its broad range of quality offerings allow your company to start small
with exactly the bandwidth and disk space you need, plus enough options that will let you grow slowly or quickly without changing your hosting provider.
HostGator's dedicated hosting is comparably inexpensive,
with its most basic service starting at $ 119 a month.
With all this in mind, we combed through some of the biggest names in the industry, including Rackspace, GoDaddy Dedicated,
HostGator Dedicated, Amazon AWS and 1 & 1 Hosting.
HostGator is partnered
with Google AdSense, Bing, and Yahoo for monetization and searches.
As I sit here and type, I am on vacation in Asheville, where we have had record lows and torrential downpours the past few days, my daughters have both been diagnosed
with strep throat and
HostGator has been crashing all day which means that people have been unable to access my site.
HostGator is one of the world's top 10 largest web hosting companies
with more than 8,000,000 hosted domains.
As I mentioned above, I went
with Reseller Hosting to be safe but I have heard the
HostGator shared servers perform relatively well.
Actually, it isn't just free,
HostGator is paying to support you
with the 800 number.
As I'll discuss, I decided on
HostGator and I went
with their Reseller Hosting.
HostGator web hosting service gets our top pick for larger blogs and extra features you won't find
with cheaper WordPress hosts
HostGator web hosting isn't the cheapest WordPress hosting but it comes
with some extra features and a quality of hosting you don't normally get on shared servers.
With exclusive discounts from 99 Designs,
HostGator, BlueHost, WooThemes and more.
HostGator * is based in the USA and is generally very highly regarded
with great customer support.
You can get shared hosting even cheaper
with GoDaddy (less than $ 2 / month), but I like the software
HostGator uses (cPanel) better than GoDaddy's account manager.
HostGator's customer service is very responsive, and can help you
with the installation process if you run into problems.
While
HostGator doesn't support SSDs on all plans, many of its servers can be equipped
with the faster drives.