There are different web hosting plans that HostGator offers. Let’s have a look at them one by one.

Shared Web Hosting Plan:

HostGator web hosting offers a highly affordable shared web hosting plan. This hosting plan is perfect for all medium-sized businesses that don’t get hundreds and thousands of visitors per month.

A shared web hosting plan contains all features that will be necessary for your primary web hosting. All the features of the WordPress site, blog forum, gallery, and e-commerce store scripts are just one click away.

While providing incredible support to all the WordPress sites, this plan also supports other special features, including; Wiki, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, and phpBB hosting content management system.

Important features are:

1. 99% uptime guarantee.
2. Unmetered bandwidth
3. Google Adword and Bing Ads credit
4.  Free migration to your website or an online store
5. Unlimited email accounts
6. cPanel control panel
7. PHP version 7 and SHS access
8.  24/7 live chat, phone call, and email support system

VPS Hosting:

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. This hosting plan comes with exceptional features, including; the whole root hosting that allows you to control your entire hosting environment. Multiple network security layers to ensure and provide you with secure and reliable website hosting. And instant scalability with the one-click feature.

The features do not end here. It also protects your data with a RAID 10 disk space configuration that comes with expandable power and HVAC units.

You will also receive a weekly off-site backup of your whole website, many valuable development tools for the functionality and design, and incredible customer support service if you have any questions.

Dedicated Server:

A dedicated hosting plan is best for both power and performance. If your website is highly trafficked and you need to manage it independently, this plan is the perfect fit for you. With this plan, you don’t even have to share your resources at any time.

You can efficiently run Linux or Windows. You also have an option to choose between HDD and SSD hard disk options. You get a data center level DDOS and enjoy the perks of full root access, RAID-1 configuration, unlimited databases, and 3-5 dedicated IP addresses.

Cloud Hosting:

Cloud Hosting is the perfect fit if you are looking to scale up your business. There are a lot of optimal features that you will get from this plan, including; intuitive dashboard, a cloud coaching solution, and resource management capability.

The one essential thing you will get in this plan is complete control over your whole site with the easy-to-use cPanel.

Suppose your site got any problem due to some technical issues. In that case, you can quickly and efficiently transfer all your data to another server. With this plan, you will also have three mirrored copies of your website to ensure safety and security.

WordPress Hosting:

HostGator has a different and fantastic plan for all WordPress site workers.

WordPress hosting plan is significantly launched to cater to all the basic needs to run a WordPress site more quickly and efficiently and make this site a more secure platform.

In addition, you will also get a managed (automatic) updates to your WordPress site. And all the essential WordPress themes, cores, plugins are handles by HostGator.

With this plan, you also get a unique CDN service to boost your content delivery to your site visitors.

Windows Hosting:

When we talk about web hosting, Linux is preferred by most people. But, some users want to work with windows hosting. HostGator understands this and provides a separate plan for such users called Windows Hosting plan.

Windows Hosting plan is a perfect fit for all users who want to run a user-friendly website with IIS, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2, Parallel Plesk Panel, and APS.NET support.

Website Builder:

HostGator also surprises us with its easy-to-use built-in website builder tool. There are over 100 mobile-friendly templates available on the website. You can easily choose from there.

In addition, you will also receive six ready-made pages to start as a complete beginner. These pre-built sections and pages inspire a lot of your visitors.

Other essential features include:

1. Domain Name Management
2. Marketing tools
3. PPC services
4. On-page optimization
5. Paypal payment gateway
6. Social Medi Integradtion
7. SEO tools for better search engines results and ranking
8. Google Analytics
9. Removal of branding
10. E-commerce shopping cart and inventory management
11. Coupon codes
12. HD video embedding
13. Keyword research
14. Webdesign
15. Codeguard
16.  Campaign management

Reseller Hosting:

If you are looking to start your own web hosting company, you will need this plan.

It offers you a powerful tool to build your clientele, upgrade as needed, and maintain complete control over your business so your business can continuously grow.

With a reseller hosting plan, you will get Multilanguage capability, WHM control panel, 99.9% uptime guarantees, unlimited MySQL databases, 400+ brandable video tutorials for your clients, and phpMyAdmin access.

Features:

HostGator offers a lot when it comes to their hosting plans. I have already mentioned each of the plans above in the article.

Let’s take a look at their features that comes along with valuable hosting plans.

1.      Free SSL certificate:

HostGator provides free SSL certificate to all its user, that is essential for the safety aspects. It shifts your site from HTTP to HTTPS, which means your website is secure and the communication between you and the server is encrypted.

2.      Bandwidth Allowance:

HostGator provides you with unmetered bandwidth and storage with its every plan.

3.      One-Click WordPress Installer

You can quickly install WordPress with just one click.

4.      Free Email accounts

HostGator provides unlimited Email Aliases, Mail forwards, Autoresponder, 25 Mailing lists, and accessible WebMail access via different clients.

5.      User-friendly cPanel dashboard to manage hosting services

With HostGator, you can get access to the industry’s leading control panel, cPanel.

6.      Incredible 24/7 customer support system via live chats, phone calls, and email

They provide their user with the best customer service 24/7/365.

7.      99.9% uptime guarantees

It is another top-notch quality of HostGator. They want your website to stay up all the time.

8.      Free domain name transfer

HostGator are happy to give free domain name for their new customers for 1-year! It frees up your time from getting a domain name from a different registrar.

9.      Free website content transfer

HostGator allows you to transfer your data to any other server without any additional charges.

10.  45-days money-back guarantee

For HostGator, customer satisfaction comes first. If you don’t like their service, you can get your funds back in the first 45 days without any question.

Having such a wide range of features at this price range is truly a fantastic deal. These features speak how much HostGator company cares about its customers. They want their users to experience top-notch features at a bargained-price budget and grow their online business to the next level.

HostGator web hosting service is well-reputable for their excellent customer support and their user-friendly features. Even if you are an absolute beginner, you can quickly set up your website in just half an hour.

Performance:

The only thing that matters in choosing s web hosting service is their performance.

If the web hosting service doesn’t provide superb response and uptime, you probably have to switch to another hosting web service.

Slow performance directly affects your visitor’s ratio. So, to get a better rank on Google, your website needs to have exceptional performance.

We have tested HostGator with all the regular performance tests that need to be considered, including; new website performance/ loading test, a highly-trafficked website performance test, and a response time test.

Speed Test:

Our test result shows, HostGator requires 1.03 sec to load a newly zero trafficked website which is excellent!

Let me give you another test snapshot showing a high-trafficked website.

The blue line in the chart is page load time, and the green line shows the number of users on the website. As the result shows, it takes an average time of approximately 203 milliseconds to load a high-trafficked website.

We also notice that the website didn’t go down or become unresponsive during the performance test. It’s amazing!