WebHosting For Small Business – Hostgator saves you money!
I just got off the phone with a small business owner that had his website shut down by his own webdesigner. As absurd as this may seem, the story is not unusual amongst offline entrepreneurs:
They pay a bunch of money for the design and then the webdesigner sticks a small “maintenance fee” on them that includes web hosting. This gentleman that was on the phone with me had been paying $35/month for over 5 years!
What really kills me is that the maintenance fee didnt include anything – He told me that once he wanted to change the pictures on the site, and the guy sent him an extra bill for $150.
Small business owner, take charge of your hosting!
Let me make something extremely clear to everybody - as I explained on this post (stuff to want on a hosting) and then discussed on the unlimited bandwidth hosting post – small businesses dont need to pay a ton of money for hosting.
What you need is a reliable, efficient, and secure hosting like Hostgator – one that has free 24 hours customer support and that will fix any problems WITHOUT extra charges.
Wanna know what happened to this friend of mine?
I told him to get his FTP info from the webdesigner, get an account with Hostgator, and use their FREE DOMAIN TRANSFER SERVICE to get his websites up.
Now – he’s going to pay less than $100 PER YEAR, instead of the $420 he was paying. How does that sound?
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A true story of Hostgator’s support effectiveness (hacked wordpress)
Hackers attacked my wordpress sites - Hostgator saved them all
About a month ago, several of the domains on my primary Hostgator account suddenly went blank.
On my primary account, there are several client’s pages that run on PPC traffic, so even a single hour that the pages are down means a lot of $$ down the drain.
I honestly dont know how long they were down before one of my clients called me asking what was up with the blank page – but I – freaking out – immediately started a live support chat on Hostgator.
Of course, when something like this happens, my first instinct is to punch somebody – it’s like when you’re trying to get something done over the phone with At&t – but the support agent was right on the money.
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When I told the agent that several of my sites were down, he quickly browsed over them and sent me a couple of lines of PHP code that he thought looked weird.
To me, it looked even WEIRDER because I dont use PHP (except when hosting wordpress) and when I told him, he quickly identified signs of an invasion.
Yeah, it sounds unreal, but hackers do attack us.
As I started freaking out, my agent logged in to cPanel and started to remove alien .PHP files that were placed throughout my sites.
Honestly, I have no idea how it happened – but within less than 15 min, he had it all taken care of for me. He instructed me to change all my FTP passwords and cPanel, and gave me the special email address for the Hostgator security team.
After he fixed everything, the security team went in and double checked my account, worked their magic, and recommended I upgraded my wordpress suites.
At the end of the day, the entire process took less 1/2 hour!
That’s how effective the Gators are!
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