It is 1 year since I was choosing the hosting for my 3 sites. Year ago I was digging the net for hours, reading all the forums I could find, comparing plans from dozens of hosting companies and even starting hosting with few of them. That left a tiny scratch in my blog.
Having all the great offers nowadays, I've decided to stay with my current host. That being a hostgator.com.
Hostgator isn't the cheapest, and it doesn't have the fanciest bullet lists around. But when I look on what a website needs I see hostgator gives it all and more for the price, where there is no competition.
For my $9.95 "Baby gator" plan I have:
- Great Virtual Hosting Performance
- Great DB Performance
- FTP, Shell, SVN, SCP access
- Unlimited: MySQL DBs, POP3 Accounts, FTP accounts, Domains, Sub-domains, Parked Domains
- More then I can use on Virtual Host: Disk Space(600Gb), Bandwidth(6000Gb)
- All the scripts I need already installed
- Hotlink protection, Fantastico, cPanel and all the necessary options (much, much more) are all included
- And an excellent support of course. LiveSupport, Phone support, eMail support. Fast and confident. Deserves separate post on itself
How to check my words?
You can try the same plan I'm using for almost a year for $0.01 using the discount coupon code "hgc25". Just start the registration process on hostgator.com and enter the code "hgc25" in the coupon code field during the registration. You will see all the difference in your invoice.
With $0.01 you can register a test account for a month and compare it with your existing host or compare with some other host (like I did). To know exactly where it is better place to host.
P.S. I hope my affiliate ads infested blog post will be of any help to you. Thus if you have a hosting you want to recommend me, please post in the comments. I still have my eyes open and if you can point me to something better then Hostgator, I will move of course. And don't hesitate to post the affiliate links, as long as information could be useful.
Additional reading: why Hostgator gives away so much gigabytes.
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