In this post I’ll give you a short review about my personal favorite webhost that is called Hostgator. Since I moved my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install several months ago, I used the Hostgator service without facing a single problem. It’s a reliable and relatively cheap webhost that offers many useful features.

I’m personally using the so called “Baby” account where I pay only $7.95 per month. Although it sounds like a somewhat funny name, it offers many advanced features that are everything but being “Baby”. The best one is the option to have unlimited domains. That’s a very important fact because you can host multiple websites/blogs instead of only one while paying only a single monthly fee. Right now I’m only using it for 3 websites, but there’s no limit in the total number you can add. I’m also planning to add even more websites, especially niche sites, to my account.

My hosting account has 600GB of webspace and I’m allowed to have 6,000GB of monthly bandwidth. You’ll never reach those limits when having only some simple websites and/or blogs, and by simple I mean sites that may even have several hundred pages. You only have to keep an eye on the processing time your site’s need to show up on your reader’s browsers. Because you’re on a shared host, meaning several people having their accounts on the same machine, you can’t use much of the server’s CPU power. E.g. running the next Facebook would probably a very bad idea and you’ll be kicked if you use too much of the server’s resources.

Hostgator uses cPanel, a very popular account management software that features all the tools you need to maintain your sites. It’s easy to set up MySQL databases (also unlimited), create email accounts or watch your site’s stats via AwStats. You can even install popular scripts like Wordpress or PhpBB with a single click on your mouse via the Fantastico service. You have full control over your hosting account, a big plus in my opinion.

All in all I can only recommend Hostgator. Especially the “Baby” account is a nice way to set up multiple websites for cheap. I mean, paying only 8 bucks a month is quite affordable, especially while looking at all the features they offer. So far I didn’t have a single problem with Hostgator and I hope to not have any in the future.

Ah, before I forget! You can join Hostgator via my affiliate link if you will, it’s definitely worth it if you try to establish multiple (maybe money making) sites for cheap!

See you,
Querblogger