Last update: May 19, 2013

Hostgator Windows Hosting Review

The hostgator windows hosting has introduced the latest windows technologies and almost the best offer in the industry. With year’s hosting experience, we believe hostgator will continue their leadership in windows as well like they did in linux hosting.

What’s the lightspot in hostgator windows hosting plan?

The best of the best with hostgator windows hosting plan is they offered smartermail which is by far the best windows webmail software. Plus the plesk sitebuilder wizard, hostgator windows hosting is instant outstanding among competitors. If you search more on the web, you will find vew few providers could have such offers.

 

What’s the disadvantage with hostgator windows hosting?

Newness is absolutely the biggest disadvantage since they never offered this service before, I think hostgator will learn more by following actual user’s experience and feedbacks. Although they launched so attractive hosting offers, no people have used this service yet so there must be a long journey to go for hostgator team.

Another disadvantage is they offered very few number of domain hosting (only one domain in personal plan) and the price is relatively high comparing to the most popular windows hosting providers. it implies their less abilities to handle multiple domains hosting in some degrees. They just make the offer in safe purpose.

 

How do we think of hostgator windows hosting?

Since it’s a new service from this company, I think they might just keep everything up to date. Especially for the hosting control panel part, plesk is not rated good with user experience. Since the cpanel Inc has just released Enkompass, they might just try it out. As long as it’s approved to be successful, hostgator will be the first one who can offer quality enkompass hosting like their leadership in cpanel hosting.

Customer Feedbacks:

Ajani:

I like hostgator tech support and no-downtime web host. But their windows web hosting doesn’t support full trust and the remote sql management is too trouble that I have to contact with their staff for whitelist my ip first at every time as their control panel doesn’t support database backup.

Mika:

Amazing customer service, reliability and $100 free Google Adwords credits – these are all comment from me who have been a Hostgator windows shared web hosting customer for 4 months. I’m totally satisfied with everything from them.

Tremain:

I’m amazing how fast their technical support. I’m happy with this reliable and affordable windows web hosting for hosting my silverlight website. And appreciated for their $100 google adwords although I only paid for $71.55 for one year.

 

Damian:

It’s in trouble to manage my sql server databases from management studio. At every time when I want to manage the databases, I have to talk with their technical support to enwhite my client IP into their firewall first.

 

And Why we like HostGator’s Windows Web Hosting?

Both the Personal and Enterprise Plans come with these great features that enable every website to be hosted optimally. We like HostGator’s following features:

  1. Free SiteBuilder and SiteStudio website building tools

    These are one of the greatest freebies given by web hosts as the SiteBuilder and SiteStudio website building tools allow you to build a website from scratch despite having no technical knowledge.

  2. Free website templates

    An amazing 4,500 templates are given for free. To build your website quickly and effortlessly you can use one of these free website templates. Simply choose one and use it or customize it for a personalized look.

  3. Free website, domain, MySQL and script transfers

    If you have a website hosted with another web host but think that HostGator’s plans are much more attractive, there isn’t anything that should hold you back from switching webs hosts. HostGator takes care of the hassles of transferring the website, domain and everything – all for FREE.

  4. Email features

    Both plans have amazing Spam Assassin which prevents spam from entering the mailbox and emails could even be received on phones via IMAP Support. Among the other mail features include unlimited auto responders, mail forwarders, email aliases, mailing lists, unlimited POP3 email accounts with SMTP and webmail access.

  5. Programming and database features

    HostGator Windows hosting plans support unlimited MySQL, Microsoft SQL and Access databases, and also System Management Scheduled Task. Among the programming modules include GD Library, MVC 3.0, and AJAX while the programming languages include PHP, Perl, Python, SSI, and of course ASP and ASP.net.

  6. Green web hosting

    HostGator has invested heavily in Texas Wind Energy to help offset server emissions; hence why not do your part for Mother Earth when you are hosting your website? The web host is also climate friendly, wind-powered and has certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

  7. Award winning support

    Both plans offer automatic weekly off-site data backups, online support portal with over 500+ video tutorials and 680+ help articles. In addition to that, a 24/7/365 server monitoring is also included, along with HostGator community forum access and around the clock premium support via phone, live chat and ticket system (email).

Editor’s Advice

HostGator offers a lot of freebies with their plans, which make them one of the most value-for-money hosts in the market. That’s not all as prices are further discounted for better value. Don’t wait around any longer to sign up with HostGator, for it is not known when the promotion will cease.

It doesn’t matter if you go for a plan that is best for your business or for your own personal website. A 20% discount is currently offered for both Windows plans and you’d get an additional 25% discount by simply using the coupon codehg25savings” when you sign up – making this the perfect time for you to engage HostGator as your web host!

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