HostGator Review

For Newbies and Individual Bloggers

For those who are starting up their web careers, HostGator offers a good deal. It has low buy-in pricing and access to a website builder with free templates. Best of all is that since it is a full-service host, there is lots of room to grow here if that’s the direction you are headed.

Bloggers will benefit from their easy application installs as well as low buy-in prices as well. This, and unlimited bandwidth can easily make HostGator a good host to simply run with and not really be concerned about unless your site has grown too big and needs to scale up.

For Freelancers and Small Businesses Owners

With the many features available here, freelancers and small business owners should be more than happy. The environment is a great build-and-forget way to handle a basic digital presence. At the same time, for business owners who may decide to scale up, there is always the option to build further.

For Online Shops

While not having any real eCommerce-specific hosting plans, there are two aspects about HostGator that make this a good choice for online stores as well. The first is the support for a wide variety of web applications such as Magento.

The second is the almost seamless ability to install and use multiple extra features for any of your web applications. Some of these can include instant shopping carts or even application-specific add-ons like WooCommerce for WordPress.

For Agencies and Developers

Although HostGator lacks the team support that many agencies will tend to need, developers can still find themselves at home here. There is wide support on even their shared web hosting plans for development. The ability to use Perl, Python and Ruby on shared plans isn’t all that common – but you get it here.

Onboarding

There isn’t much significance in the HostGator sign-up process that you won’t have seen elsewhere. The good point is that if you’re doing this again, you won’t really get confused. Newbies will just have to follow the arrows and instructional email you’ll get as part of the onboarding process.

An excellent point to note is that HostGator has very extensive documentation to help you with all your needs. I often find this more helpful with basic features instead of relying on support staff since they will take some time to revert, which can be frustrating.