Hostgator Vs Godaddy

In Hosting Review, Web Hosting Comparison | on October 11, 2009

www.Hostgator.com Vs www.Godaddy.com

How to find a good web hosting? Today I’d like to compare the 2 largest web hosting companies, Hostgator Vs Godaddy.

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Overview:

HostGator.com LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 7,000 servers under management. The over two million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

Founded in 1997, GoDaddy now dominates the domain, Web site hosting and SSL industries. The Company owns and operates its own services and equipment, which enables it to keep prices low and quality high. Go Daddy is renowned for its controversial Super Bowl® commercials, the comely and accomplished Go Daddy Girls™ and our round-the-clock live customer service. CEO and Founder Bob Parsons® produces a popular blog at www.bobparsons.me and weekly radio show called Radio Go Daddy®.

Hostgator’s Various Offerings

Hostgator provides a wide range of services, allowing users to determine what they need and pay only for that. They have over 1,200,000 websites hosted with them. They offer several plans with different price ranges, starting from basic packages to reseller packages to dedicated packages, their present set of options is quite varied.
In truth, their options are so varied that I feared listing them in this article. There was no way I could exclude them, so large is their reputation. I have to say that if variety is your thing, and you want a package that may fit your needs, Hostgator may be your first choice. Hostgator’s web site is not particularly exceptional nor exciting to look at but it definitely gives you plenty of information.

Godaddy’s Various Offerings:

Godaddy use their own control panel, which is a major let down. The features and ease of use is not comparable to cPanel or plesk. They offer windows hosting also, at the cheapest price imaginable for Windows+SQL Server+ASP+PHP packages. But the bad thing is, they don’t allow enterprise manager connection for the SQL server. That means you are forced to use their interface for SQL server, which is a pain. Also, PHP on windows comes with a lot of restrictions, almost making it useless. If you need PHP, make sure that you select Linux hosting.

Hostgator’s Shared Plans Include:

Hatchling: Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth: Unlimited, $4.95 a month.
Baby: Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth: Unlimited, $9.95 a month.
Swamp: Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth: Unlimited, $14.95 a month.
Semi-Dedicated Disk Space: 25GB, Bandwidth: 500GB, $74.95 a Month.

Hostgator hasn’t forgotten those who need dedicated service either.

Basic Disk Space: 80GB, Bandwidth: 1200GB, $174.00 a Month, Full Root Access and Fully Managed, 2.4GHz CPU, 1GB Memory
Standard Disk Space: 80GB, Bandwidth: 1200GB, $174.00 a Month, Full Root Access and Fully Managed, 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB Memory
Pro Disk Space: 2×80GB, Bandwidth: 1200GB, $174.00 a Month, Full Root Access and Fully Managed.

Godaddy Hosting Features:

Economy: Win/Linux, 5GB Space, 250GB Bandwidth, $3.95 a month.
Deluxe: Win/Linux, 100GB Space, 1000GB Bandwidth, $6.99 a month.
Premium: Win/Linux, 200GB Space, 2000GB Bandwidth, $14.95 a month.

Hosting Support:

Hostgator have very good support. They respond in a timely manner to emails (usually within a couple of hours) and have knowledgeable staff who are willing to help customers in difficulty. I wish I could say tthe same for GoDaddy. Unfortunately, responses from them can take up to 2-3 days. Often they’re stock replies showing that the responder either hasn’t properly read your email or understood what you’re asking. Enquiries where IonCube are concerned (e.g. please help me get ionCube running) are met with a “we don’t support ionCube” response (with an implicit “so you’re on your own” caveat). Technically speaking, their support in general isn’t very good, often requiring two or three attempts from a customer to resolve an issue. So a big thumbs down for GoDaddy.

Conclusion:

Hostgator beats GoDaddy hands down; better and cheaper hosting packages, better provision of tools (like ionCube) as standard and better support. Strongly recommend Hostgator for your first web hosting options.