Hostgator provides what you want with everything you might need
First – do you know what you want from your Hosting?
People tend to think of hosting as an expense – therefore they look for the cheapest one, which often leads to a disappointing experience.
You need to consider the impact of having your website(s) down for even an hour – how much would that cost your company?
Once you realize how crucial a reliable Hosting server is, you start to think more careful about which one to choose.
1. What’s the Uptime Percentage?
Pretty self-explanatory – how often is the server up, or how steady are their services?
There are no perfect servers – but there are those with guaranteed 99.9% uptime. Hostgator was one of the first ones to achieve that percentage, and has won many best hosting awards because of it.
2. How much bandwidth do you need?
This is ridiculously hard to calculate because you may not use a lot of bandwidth right now – remember that bandwidth = traffic volume to your site. But chances are that for 99% of businesses that have a website, more traffic is always welcome.
The way the internet works, you have plenty of opportunities to go Viral – and what happens if a sudden spike in traffic collapses your website?
Hostgator offers UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH even on their most basic packages. You may not need it, but you definitely WANT IT.
3. How many domains per account?
Let’s say you run a gym – and you want a domain for fitness, one domain for bodybuilding, and one for martial arts.
Usually, you’d need to get a hosting account for each one of those domains. That means one monthly bill is now 3x bigger.
With Hostgator, you get unlimited addon domains – you can have a multitude of domains on the same account, without compromising the bandwidth, because – yes, it’s UNLIMITED.
Those are the most basic and fundamental features you want from a hosting company. I make it clear that those are things you WANT – not necessarily what you need.
Hostgator’s features cover way more than your needs – they focus on taking care of your wants.
