HostGator offers four website hosting plans for Indian users to choose from servers located within the country and in the U.S. These plans are further categorized and prices, features vary accordingly.
HostGator Shared Hosting
In this type of hosting, a user will share space in the server with other websites. This means, a single server will be hosting multiple websites, and resources along with bandwidth will also be shared. HostGator offers 99.9% uptime guarantee on shared hosting server plans.
The company provides both Windows and Linux shared hosting services. Windows shared hosting is recommended to host a website built on ASP, ASP.NET, IIS or MSSQL. Whereas, Linux shared hosting is useful to host sites built in HTML or CSS, PHP and regular WordPress websites.
HostGator’s shared hosting comes with an option to choose from starter, hatchling, baby and business plans. The prices of each plan become cheaper when users select plans having a billing cycle of higher tenure. We paid attention to features of three sub-categories of this plan with servers located in India.
HostGator WordPress Hosting
HostGator offers Indian users WordPress hosting service with servers located in the U.S. Under this plan, features offered by HostGator are very basic and limited. However, it has partnered with BlueHost to provide advanced features such as WP theme, domain name, to name a few.
We paid attention to the WordPress hosting plan provided by HostGator. We have also created a detailed guide of the Bluehost hosting service by creating a Bluehost Review[1].
HostGator Cloud Hosting
Built on cloud technology, HostGator’s cloud hosting is ideal for websites that need to maintain fast load times when traffic spikes. Indian users can choose to host their website on cloud servers located within the country India or in the U.S. Pricing and features under this hosting plan with servers located in India are as follows:
HostGator VPS Hosting
HostGator’s virtual private server (VPS) offers more control to users over their website’s performance. Each user is provided with a separate hosting environment, and unlike shared hosting, users don’t have to share resources such as RAM or CPU with other websites.
It comes equipped with an integrated cPanel, with full root access, guaranteed CPU, RAM, SSD storage and network as well as management actions like stop, restart and rebuild for complete autonomy of the servers. HostGators offers four VPS plans for Indian users to choose from servers located in India and in the U.S., as per their needs for storage, bandwidth, and dedicated IP option.
HostGator Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting is suited to meet the requirements of large businesses, which have heavy traffic influx, or are a very popular site. Unlike shared hosting, a dedicated server offers users an entire server, along with all of its resources.
HostGator Reseller Hosting
HostgGator allows users to allocate storage and bandwidth to create custom packages to host thier customers’ websites. As the name suggests, reseller hosting allows users to start their own hosting business as it allows users to host unlimited websites. In addition, it comes equipped with a free SSL certificate, email, and site migration features, and many more.
HostGator Email Hosting
While HostGator allows free email to all plans, it also allows users to purchase just an email plan separately, starting INR 348 per annum, and comes with 5GB space per email ID, inbuilt virus protection, spam filter, and 99.99% uptime guarantee.
References
- ^ Bluehost Review (www.forbes.com)