Founded in : October, 2002
Phone Number : 1-866-964-2867

Plan Types : Shared, Reseller and Dedicated Servers

Support Modes : 24/7 Phone, Live Chat, and Tickets

HostGator has been in business since 2002 and colocate their equipment in various data centers in Dallas, Texas. Their servers are atleast dual Xeons with 4GB memory and RAID hard drives. They are very highly rated and trusted by webmasters. They host over 1,000,000 domains.

I have compiled a list of short reviews of HostGator. I know that HostGator Review is a searched term in google, so it means that many people look for reviews!

Dan Difranco:

Decided to go with hostgator based on the reviews I read. I found four different sites that had nothing but good things to say about them. It pays to shop around because they were right. Cpanel is great. The uptime is outstanding, and I can’t even describe their customer service. I had to e-mail a problem to them (at 11:00pm) and they responded in about 15 min! I continued to have questions and sent about 5 more e-mails. Each question was answered in 15-20 min. I couldn’t believe it. I probably sound like I work for the company, but I don’t. I am just a very satisfied customer.

Becky S:

I have been with Host Gator for a few months now. I have a reseller account at Host Gator. I had been to about 3-4 different hosts before this. I have never recieved such quick and accurate tech support as I have here.

When I first started here, I needed to transfer my 10-12 domains from another server over to Host Gator. I had never done it before and I had requested help. They offered to transfer all of them for free.. with a smile! Although I had a few different techs, they all knew what they were doing and were on the same page. I also had a problem with my one domain because the username was the same at my previous host and this host. So they changed everything to the other name, which took hours and never gave me one bit of attitude or said no.. we cant do that. Thanks alot guys and its nice to be with a host who has a great support team (for once!).

Personaly, I’ve had only good experiences with them. Excellent support, excellent uptime, not one single problem!

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Nowadays, it’s tough to be a webmaster. With all the pressures that come with the work, it’s no wonder that webmasters are finding help from their fellow webmasters. Since they live in various parts of the world, having a dedicated forum has become the norm. A webmaster forum serves as a venue for like-minded tech professionals to share their thoughts on current internet marketing and SEO trends. It’s also a place where ideas come to life. Perhaps, even the most clever products and tools have been conceptualized in forums like this. But not all forums are the same, there are those that just serves as a place to hangout, and there are some that can be a haven for webmasters because they offer more than just company, they also provide expert advise and necessary tools to improve your webmastering skills.

To help you decide which forum or community to join, here is a list of top 5 webmaster forums. They are chosen based on their Alexa ranking, taking into consideration the types of information they provide and the quality of the forums.

1. Digital Point (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/). This forum is one of the top ranking webmasters forum based on the Alexa ranking. This means that the forum is able to attract many webmasters, most of which are tech experts. Initially, you can view all the postings without having to register as a member. This means that you can immediately view and assess the contents and the quality of posting. The forum touches on all aspects of webmastering and technology. So, regardless of your specialization, you will be able to find information that you need. With more than 1,300 members online at one time, there is a massive dose of updates. Downside is that you might not be able to keep up with it. This forum is great for those that want to be updated about all aspects of technology. It wouldn’t work if you are highly specialized and want to be specific.

2. Site Point (http://www.sitepoint.com/). Site Point is actually a website that offers articles, books, kits, videos, and blogs about technological updates. The articles are written by top notch industry experts so you will know that you are getting quality information. It also has a Marketplace section that allows you to buy and sell tech stuff. The forum is even more useful because there are specific categories that cater to your information needs.

3. Webmaster World (http://www.webmasterworld.com/). The site is one of the most popular webmaster sites around. It also has the most user-friendly interface. What’s great about is that the tech news and highlights are posted in the front page, so you don’t have to go clicking on sub categories. This is great for webmasters who want to get specific information about their particular field of specialization.

4. DaniWeb (http://www.daniweb.com/). DaniWeb is an IT discussion community that offers a treasure trove of information about anything IT. It is quite popular to people who are into software development as there are very useful postings about various programming programs. It may not be for you if you are looking for website promotions and similar marketing efforts.

5. Create Blog (http://createblog.com/). As the name suggests, the site is particularly designed to cater to bloggers. This is a great site for webmasters who use blogs as a way to promote their sites. It guides newbies as well as veterans on how to create a blog that can attract many visitors. There are tools available to improve your blogs. As such, you will find tips and tricks on graphics design, blog layouts, CSS, javascript, and blog-related tools.

6. Webmaster-Talk (http://www.webmaster-talk.com/). The first webmaster forum I joined, in the early 2003’s A great place for novice webmasters as well for the advanced ones. Want a cheap website or a cheap link? That’s the best place to look them up.

7. V7N.com (http://www.v7n.com/forums/). Probably not as active as once, V7n is full of professional webmasters. I’m visiting that place for it’s SEO forum, where alot of SEO tactics are discussed. One hint for the owner, animate that dead marketplace!

8. NamePros (http://www.namepros.com). A great forum for domainers with an active domain marketplace & domain discussions. Interesting point system available where users can buy domains using the points they get from posts and donations of other users

9. WarriorForum (http://www.warriorforum.com/). The oldest webmaster forum around, launched in 1997. I never visited that forum but it seems active (many members online) and I heard that there are a lot of useful informations on the board.

Before anything, I should apologize for my absence during the past 3 weeks.

We all heard about alexa’s updated algorithm on sorting the traffic rankings. I’ve been doing some tests since then and here’s what I discovered.

1) Use the alexa traffic rank widget. Example : reviewgadgetblog.com. The site was getting 500+ visits/day and its alexa remained at 1,2-1,4 million. After I put the alexa widget, the site dropped to 952,000. Notable is that the site now receives just 40-60 visits/daily. Imagine my rank with the traffic it used to be AND the widget

2) Use the alexa toolbar. Yeah this one still counts. I un-installed the alexa toolbar for a couple of weeks. My rankings dropped since then (I’m using the toolbar now though).

3) Quality of traffic doesn’t matter. Yeah it doesn’t.Example: XETB.com averages 500 visits/day from Iran and its alexa rank is stabled between 300,000-380,000; This being said, you can try using some auto-surf programs to improve your rank.

That’s about it, not many changes from the last algorithm. I will keep this post updated in case I find something new.