Hostgator & Watermelons – How The Best Hosting Ever Was Born
Hostgator's creator started out selling watermelons
So I stumbled upon the a great post by Hostgator’s creator where the entire history of how the service came to life is fully exposed.
It turns out everything started with a good-old childhood fruit stand:
“I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was a kid. In sixth grade, I sold candy at school and had all the kids in my neighborhood working for me. When I was 14, my cousins and I had a business where we sold watermelons from a truck on the side of a road. The deal we offered was simple, but effective: “2 for $5.”
It doesnt seem anything like the beginning of a world surrounded by ultra-geek terms like MySQL, ASP, or DNS. But from this humble beginning a passion for making money online came to life – thus the background on Hostgator’s generous approach to affiliate marketing.
From the original post:
Freak webhosting: pre-Hostgator
“I decided to create real web sites and sell my own advertising inventory. The network that I created was called The Freak Network and consisted of scfreak.com, dfreak.com, and wcfreak.com, all of which were named after best selling Blizzard Entertainment games (Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft, respectively).
My network was making me about $40 a day, which was impressive given that all of my pimple covered friends had to get real jobs and make less money.”
The whole thing seems right out of the internet entrepreneur book, right?
A good-old rag to riches story seemed on the way – but NO.
Apparently, the gaming traffic was tagged as “malicious” and Freak Web Hosting went down in flames – the server called it quits, forcing a major refund to be issued to customers and the last straw on on a stranded, over worked entrepreneur.
(it still sounds like a Rag-to-Riches story)
After getting back to the normal rat-race world and back into College, the dream was then revived by a friend – who suggested a partnership where one would be technical, other would be sales. They managed to get everybody back on board, but needed a new name:
Old Hostgator hosting interface
Hostgator was born in its earliest stage:
Soon after, college life came to an abrupt end too -
“I was a 24/7 one-man operation. I was being woken up numerous times a night with phone calls and there wasn’t a single class I would make it through without having to leave at least a few times to take a business call. I knew I was on path to be making more than the average college graduate in about six months. I also knew it would have been impossible to finish another year of college while running HostGator, so I decided to drop out of school and follow my dream of growing HostGator into the world’s largest hosting company.”
And now it is: over 2 million websites hosted , a fully green hosting company, and the best darn uptime in the industry. To top it off, free cpanel hosting, unlimited asp.net hosting support, fantastico wordpress hosting, and the trademarked best-selling Hostagtor’s hosting package.
No reason they rock – they really focus on giving the best possible service, and that’s why I strongly recommend them:
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Why You’ll Love Hostgator’s cPanel Interface
Hostgator's cPanel interface is ridiculously simple to use and free!
We’ve already showed how Hostgator’s top hosting services make your life as a webmaster 1000x easier, but today we’re going to talk about how their cPanel interface saves you an absurd amount of time – and stress.
Today I want to walk you through some of the most common uses of cPanel and how Hostgator’s interface help you get everything done in absolutely no time.
1. How To Log Into cPanel
Yesterday I showed you how to use Hostgator’s free domain transfer, but I didnt show how to log into your cPanel account. Very simple – all you have to do is type
http://yourPRIMARYdomain.com/cpanel
Enter username and password (sent to you on a welcome email)
DONE.
1. How To Redirect A Domain Using cPanel
Once you’re logged in, look for a module called DOMAINS
on cPanel, find Domains and then click on Redirects
Once you click on redirects, the next screen is very self-explanatory:
pick any domain, select the redirect name and the url.
Now you can create professional-looking redirects such as yourdomain.com/redirect and they will point to whatever url you desire. This way, you dont have to tell people to memorize long urls like yourdomain.com/news/sign-up-for-newsletter.html.
3. Creating a new email account with cPanel
Want a cool email like yourname@yourdomain.com? Easy – just follow these quick instructions:
Once you’re logged in, look for for a module that says MAIL:
Hostgator's cPanel allow you complete control over your email accounts
To create a new account, we’ll click on email accounts. To check your emails, you click on Webmail.
Once you click on email accounts, again, very user friendly instructions come up:
pick the domain you want, the email you want, and cPanel creates it for you.
Could it be easier?
Seriously, Hostgator’s hosting solutions save you from spending precious time with geeks that will charge you to do simple stuff. And if you have any questions, their live 24/7 support is free.
What are you waiting for?
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