BEST WEB HOSTS (2009)

Host Gator
Although their website might give you an impression of a free hosting website, or just another cheap low quality reseller, HostGator claims to be one of the major threats to it’s competitors….does it really stand up to it’s claim? Read further to find out !

Features:
HostGator provides more than enough features to keep you happy.. For the majority plans, Unlimited Add on/Parked/Sub Domains (except in the basic most Shared Linux Hosting Plan) Webspace, bandwidth, Site Builder, Instant Backups and Email Accounts are offered. Also, cPanel along with Fantastico, Shopping Cart Set-up application etc is provided. All in all, it would be a severely rare case in case you found anything to be lacking as far as HostGator’s offered features go.

Plans & Pricing

Although HostGator provides just about enough features; it offers a barrage of plans, which acts as a major advantage for both their customers and them, considering, the customer gets a lot of options to choose from, as to what suits him the best. You can check out the Plans, Pricing and Features here:

Although HostGator charges a little more than many other hosts for providing the services that it does, it has a major advantage in the form of allowing it’s customers to register for whatever time period they feel like. No need to invest or commit all your budget to hosting at one time like many companies that make you sing up and pay for a whole year or 6months etc at once.

HostGator has huge market share in web hosting providing quality servers for top fortune 500 companies to hobby web masters they even offer FREE non profit web hosting for any non profit and or charitable organizations.
and if your looking for green hosting host gator has you covered with award winning green hosting they claim that all of their shared and reseller servers are wind powered 130% but that is not 100% true the servers are not actually using power generated directly by wind instead they purchase renewable energy credits = 130% of the electricity it takes to power and cool the servers! so you get stable dependable servers that dont depend on the wind to run. so its a win wind..

Customer Service & Reliability
The customer support from HostGator was first-class, when we tried it out. The responses were quick and spot on. We received a reply to our query mail pretty quickly. As compared to many other web hosts, HostGator seems to be having the best reputation as far as Customer Satisfaction goes. Taking a peek at the Reliability, we would, without a doubt recommend it even if you wish to set up a website with heavy traffic, large amount of bandwidth requirement or disk space, or wish to set up a hosting website, keeping this as a base.

Overview:

Features: 4.5/5
Plans & Pricing: 3.5/5
Customer Service & Reliability: 5/5
Overall: 4.5/5. [Highly Recommended].

HostGator does what it says, with a splendid set of features, decent pricing, brilliant customer service, reliability, and lenient terms and conditions, HostGator is easily one of our top proposal, and could in future, very well be yours too!