Nov 16 2007
HostGator Review by Mindmagic
Positive Review of HostGator Shared Hosting from 1-18-06
By the way, I love hostgator! It is the best host of all the other host I’ve come across. I moved from sitesell to thirdsphere to dreamhost to avahost to yahoo webhosting and finally to hostgator.
Sitesell got a load of problems I couldn’t work with. No ftp is one.
Thirdsphere was fine but I did not need alot of their tools yet.
Dreamhost had ftp directory and folder structure not according to the standard public_html one so it’s just frustrating working with it.
Avahost was ok in everything except that their knowledge base support structure isn’t exactly fantastic, so I always had to contact helpdesk when I’m trying to find an answer. And helpdesk reply isn’t that fast either.
Yahoo hosting is the worst in my opinion. Dealing with them is a laughing situation. Their support is filled with a bunch of dumb dotz who don’t know what they’re doing, can’t answer your questions properly, take so long to answer and never really help you to solve your problems. Working with them is a complete pain in the ass.
But yahoo webmail plus is the best webmail program I’ve ever come across so I’m using it to read and send all my emails forwarded to it. That’s the ONLY plus factor of yahoo in my opinion.
and then I found hostgator! I was trying to find which was a top rated host once and for all and I kept on doing searches and see which host appeared in the top ranks of various hosting review pages.
At first what I saw was lunar pages. I considered switching to lunar pages for quite a while but then someone in the xsitepro forum mentioned hostgator enthusiastically and I started to consider it.
The tipping point came when I went to www.lunarpagesreview.com and I saw that hostgator was rated by users as the top host of the month.
So I decided to thoroughly check out hostgator. I talked to their live chat (A very useful feature to help you with your problems) and found that their support responds quite well and usually helps me to find the answer that I’m looking for. When I email hostgator support, they also respond soon enough and with far better answers I than I could ever get from yahoo hosting.
The ftp directory, folder structure and cpanel are standard so it’s exactly what I’m looking for. (simple and easy to use)
Their knowledge base and support ticket system is just the way it should be like most decent hosts.
The best is that they offer a monthly payment plan for baby account with free setup. That’s one of the crucial factors I normally look for to judge a hosting company. Lunarpages only offers 3 months paypment minimum with $30 setup.
Hosting companies that allow only 1 year prepaid plan are held in extremely low regard by me unless they offer a 1 year money back gaurantee. In psychology, this is called a commitment manipulation.
Respectable people always give you a choice to stay or leave anytime you want and they never lock you in with anything.
I’m not going to talk about disk space and bandwidth here because for crying out loud, the difference between most hosts don’t even matter at all.
Indeed hostgator is now rated as top of the list and yahoo webhosting is rated at the very bottom! Wow such findings just totally reflect my experiences.